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July Is Crime Month
Maybe it’s the murderous heat that bumps off our better angels, but something about summer brings out the outlaw in the Chronicle crew. Thus, we’ve decided July is Crime Month, and for four weeks, our writers and editors will be toasting the unlawful with reviews of recent crime fiction and nonfiction; interviews with authors in the field; plugs for crime-related shows to stream, screenings, podcasts, and events; appreciations of classic crime sagas and their creators; and more.
Aug. 1, 2019
Parsing fact from fiction in Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
July 30, 2019
A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 29-31
July 29, 2019
Writer of Whisper Network offers a healthy dose of righteous indignation
July 25, 2019
A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 22-28
July 21, 2019
As well as being a riveting psychological thriller, this tale of a road trip across Texas with a serial killer shows the state in an intimate light
July 18, 2019
H-Town badness gets the Akashic rundown in a criminally good anthology
July 18, 2019
Lisa Sandlin's characters try to solve the mysteries of themselves
July 18, 2019
Casey Cep solves the mystery of the true crime book that Harper Lee never wrote
July 18, 2019
Police chief Samuel Craddock searches for a missing friend while on a visit to Jarrett Creek, Texas
July 18, 2019
Songs answering the musical question, "Does crime pay?" No.
July 17, 2019
A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 15-21
July 15, 2019
Why did a boy's murder go unsolved for 27 years? Just listen.
July 11, 2019
Amanda Jacobson pairs vino reviews with different varietals of lawbreaking
July 11, 2019
Joan Moran's up-to-the-minute page-turner exposes the dark and gritty side of Cuba with schemes full of treachery, double-dealing, and murder
July 11, 2019
And With Him Came the West explores the truth behind Hollywood's favorite cowboy
July 11, 2019
In this series, Naomi Watts puts the "psycho" in psychotherapy
July 9, 2019
A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 8-14
July 7, 2019
Can you solve our fondness for Idaville's favorite sleuth?
July 3, 2019
In which we hear the report of a gun and a secret is revealed
July 3, 2019
A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 1-7
July 1, 2019
Everything you need to know about Raymond Chandler's classic
July 27, 2018
All of the Dashiel Hammett PI's cases in one energetic volume
July 27, 2018
Comics Pat Sirois and Kath Barbadaro school you on the grift in their podcast
July 26, 2018
Previous Crime Month coverage:
2018
