Topic: crime fiction

Detective working at a desk in her office (Andrii Lysenko/Getty Images)

Stephen King gives us a relatable hero

Kelly McClure
Don Winslow (Photo illustration by Salon/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

"Punk": Don Winslow on Donald Trump

Andrew O'Hehir
Author and former jockey Dick Francis (Rui Vieira - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)

Secrets of the Dick Francis mysteries

Zac Bissonnette
Rosamund Pike as Amy Dunne in "Gone Girl" (Twentieth Century Fox/Salon)

11 Gillian Flynn "Gone Girl" facts

Anastasia Rose Hyden - Mental Floss
Angela Lansbury on set of 'Murder She Wrote', 19th May 1992. (Julian Brown/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

A cozy "Maltese Falcon," she wrote

Zac Bissonnette
Juneteenth Reading List (Photo illustration by Salon/Crooked Lane Books/Flatiron Books/Kensington Books/Thomas & Mercer/Bronzeville Books)

7 thrilling must-reads by Black authors

Faye Snowden
Woman looks outside a train window while traveling (Getty Images/Mixmike)

Reframing female anger in thrillers

Liz Evans - The Conversation
Actor David Suchet stars in the LWT series "Hercule Poirot's Casebook" (Photoshot/Getty Images)

Poirot at 100: Beloved refugee sleuth

Christopher Pittard - The Conversation
Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman (William Morrow)

Laura Lippman, queen of crime

Erin Keane
Gary Oldman and Tom Hardy in "Child 44" (Summit Entertainment)

Putin hates this film

Andrew O'Hehir
Rosamund Pike as Amy Dunne in "Gone Girl" (Twentieth Century Fox/Salon)

Not the next "Gone Girl"

Laura Miller

Sex, crime and landladies

Laura Miller

Great women crime novelists

Laura Miller
John Hawkes and Jennifer Aniston in "Life of Crime" (Roadside Attractions)

A delightful crime farce

Andrew O'Hehir
Sean Connery as James Bond

Bond and Jeeves are back!

Laura Miller
Elmore Leonard (AP/Paul Sancya)

Why Elmore Leonard matters

Laura Miller
Sarah Weinman

Grandmothers of "Gone Girl"

Laura Miller
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J. David Gonzalez - LA Review of Books