James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction

July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

July Is Crime Month: Noir at the Bar

Hard liquor and hardboiled writers mix it up at Opal's South

"...For my money, a crime novel just isn't complete without a few slugs: from..."

July 7, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

July Is Crime Month

As summer heats up, the 'Chronicle' runs afoul of the law, in fiction and nonfiction

"...a curiously large number of new mystery and true crime books slated for summer release was dumped off at..."

July 4, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 4

A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 23-31

"...Since July is Crime Month at the Chronicle, the ruffians and reprobates at..."

July 23, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Crime Month: Down Those Mean Streams

Nordic noir and other criminal pleasures worth streaming

"...field day, and streaming services are providing so much crime fiction, viewers have trouble keeping track of it all...."

July 20, 2018 Arts Post by Jesse Sublett

Pulp Fiction

Tarantino's second feature film lights up the screen with the same blazing torch that it carries for the idea of the movies.

"...Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken and Bruce Willis. Screw pulp fiction. Make mine a valentine. A valentine to Pulp Fiction...."

Oct. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gary Phillips at Adventures in Crime & Space

"...I dig crime fiction a lot. I especially dig L.A.-based crime fiction...."

Aug. 14, 1998 Books Feature

These New Crime Thrillers Make Killer Presents

Following the deadly stalkers through the stacks of Mulholland

"...that is: The ones populating any number of modern crime thrillers and violence-riddled mysteries that feature detectives (private or..."

Nov. 30, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Attica Locke on Solving Crime on Highway 59

Heaven, My Home author talks her East Texas roots and the blues

"...and that she's now made a setting in her crime fiction series set along Highway 59...."

Oct. 25, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Sherry Thomas Is Our Lady of Crime Solving

The game's afoot in a very different way in the Lady Sherlock series by Austinite Sherry Thomas

July 13, 2018 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

SXSW Panel Recap: Beyond Podcasting: How Ashley Flowers Redefined True Crime Storytelling

How the Crime Junkie host built a media empire

"...Millions of people love true crime, and there are hundreds of podcasts about the subject...."

March 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Katherine McNevins

July Is Crime Month

"...in the Chronicle crew. Thus, we've decided July is Crime Month, and for four weeks, our writers and editors..."

July 5, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

True Crime and Punishment

True crime writer Suzy Spencer interviews fellow true crime writer Vanessa Leggett about how she snatched the record for the longest contempt of court imprisonment of a journalist in United States history.

"...to help me with some research on a true crime book I was working on about the case of..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Suzy Spencer

Here's a Brief Platter of Tasty Pop-Fiction Palaver

With a side of kaeng la-tey, farang

"...Kathmandu, the fourth in his series of vivid Bangkok-set crime novels featuring Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep; I've already read the..."

May 17, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Crime Month: Tarantino's Alternate History, Where Women Don't Get to Talk a Whole Lot

Parsing fact from fiction in Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood

"...time on the internet trying to parse fact from fiction...."

July 30, 2019 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin’s Sisters in Crime Prefer Their Ink Mixed With a Little Blood

Murders, they write

"...Currie Foster. Noreen Cedeño. Kathy Waller. They're sisters in crime, and they write – and read – and are..."

July 6, 2018 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Writing Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in Austin

How local authors who work beyond the world we know meet, connect, and launch themselves into the business

"...fannish good time, but somewhere aspiring writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror could meet and polish their craft..."

July 14, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

July Is Crime Month: Q&A with Meg Gardiner

Local writer on her new thriller and her secret to success

"...Austin Chronicle: How did you get into writing crime novels specifically? I understand you were a lawyer, and..."

July 9, 2014 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Jesse Sublett's Latest True-Crime Book Takes on the Last Gangster in Austin

The rise and fall of the Junkyard King

"...L.A. is, of course, a global noir capitol, of crimes both real and imagined. It's the city of Raymond..."

June 10, 2022 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

Adventures in Crime and Space Closes

"...Monday afternoon, Willie Siros, the owner of Adventures of Crime and Space Books, was waiting for the UPS man..."

April 5, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Down This Mean Sixth Street in Austin Noir

Akashic Books brings its crime-fiction anthology series to bloody up our changing metropolis

"...Akashic Books began their run of crime-fiction compilations in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir, and now –..."

June 30, 2023 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dark Streets

A collection of blues originals by the likes of Aaron Neville, B.B. King, and Etta James lightens this otherwise dreary exercise in modern film noir.

"...than a stylized regurgitation of creaky film-noir clichés and crime-fiction conventions … but its streets are undeniably dark. As..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Austin's Noir at the Bar Presents Stuart Neville

Irish author of Those We Left Behind trades shots with fellow crime writers Mike McCrary, Jesse Sublett, and Gabino Iglesias

"...and the atmosphere liter-airy. But when it comes to crime books, with their dark deeds on mean streets, their..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Patricia Highsmith

The crime writer's dark world is stranger than (literary) fiction

"...The decadelong revival of classic crime novelist Patricia Highsmith continues apace, with a film of..."

July 25, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Whodunnit All Over the World?

The Melville House International Crime series is ship-shape.

"...a sad mystery, to wrap up the July Is Crime Month series that Books Editor Robert Faires has created..."

July 30, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Girl in the Spider's Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story

Lisbeth Salander is back, and now she's James Bond

"...is one of the more fascinating characters in recent fiction. Created by Swedish author Stieg Larsson in his trilogy..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Original Sin

"...regarded by many people as the father of noir crime fiction. Among the more than 25 films adapted from..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

Sixties Baltimore is unveiled in this new crime novel

"...waterlogged woman, gets just that in Laura Lippman's new crime novel, Lady in the Lake. She's the kind of..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Arts Review by Rosalind Faires

Women of Mystery

Investigating the latest "persons of interest" in Texas' literary crime scene

"...the yellow tape around Texas. It's just one big crime scene, judging from all the murder and mayhem to..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Minerva Koenig on South of Nowhere

Minerva Koenig wanted her mystery series to show how someone becomes a sleuth

"...got there. I mean, sure, you wonder about the crime she's about to tell you about – how her..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

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