The Criminalist
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  • crime
April 12, 2010

Framed: Graphic Crime Fiction

By Sarah Weinman

Vertigo's new line of graphic novels brings together the worlds of crime fiction and comics.

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  • crime
March 14, 2010

The Discreet and Dangerous Charms of David Carkeet

By Sarah Weinman

In the unusual crime novels of David Carkeet, the bad deeds are almost beside the point.

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  • crime
February 15, 2010

The Poisoner's Handbook

By DEBORAH BLUM
Reviewed by Sarah Weinman

Toxicology meets forensics in Jazz Age New York, giving birth to the first modern crime lab. Read more...

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  • crime
January 18, 2010

A Precinct of Her Own

By Sarah Weinman

Dorothy Uhnak's books transformed her trailblazing experience as a woman in the N.Y.P.D. into sagas that plumb the soul of the force. Read more...

About the Columnist
Sarah Weinman reviews crime fiction for many publications including the Los Angeles Times and the Baltimore Sun and blogs about the genre at Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind.
Daybook

May 21: The musical smash hit Gypsy opened on Broadway on this day in 1959. The bestseller upon which the show is based, Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir Gypsy, told her life as a rags-to-naked success story, and added to…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin. 

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The Long List
Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
When the Devil Drives

Thespian-turned-P.I. Jasmine Sharp searches for a missing actress and veteran detective Catherine MacLeod tries to solve the case of a murdered one. Their paths intertwine amid the Scottish theater community with uproarious and gory results. 

Story of My People

Recounting the struggles and eventual dissolution of a family textile business in Prato, Italy, Story of My People is a heartbreaking memoir about the personal impact of globalization.

My Struggle, Book Two

A controversial sensation in Norway, A Man in Love is the second book of six in the series, detailing Knausgaard’s separation from his wife, his move to Stolkholm and the dogged pursuit of a mesmerizing poet.