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The Backlist
At The Backlist on CrimeReads, Polly Stewart talks to today's best authors of crime fiction about the books they wish they'd written.

Megan Abbott on Noir, Fatalism, and Denis Johnson's 'Angels'

Rebecca Makkai on 'The Murderess' and Reading in Translation

William Boyle on Discovering Donna Masini and a Great 'Italian-American-Recovering-Catholic-from-Brooklyn' Novel

Margot Douaihy and Polly Stewart Revisit Patricia Highsmith's 'Edith's Diary'

Joe R. Lansdale on a Forgotten Classic of Southern Noir

C.J. Tudor on the Wild, Inventive Noirs of Michael Marshall Smith

Kellye Garrett on the Legacy of Valerie Wilson Wesley

Jonathan Kellerman on Returning to Margaret Millar and Ross Macdonald

Naomi Hirahara and Polly Stewart Read Chester Himes' Noir Classic

Megan Miranda and Polly Stewart Revisit a Literary Thriller

Alex Finlay and Polly Stewart Revisit 'I Am Pilgrim,' by Terry Hayes

Revisiting Steve Hamilton’s 'The Lock Artist' with Elle Cosimano

Revisiting Vicki Hendricks' 'Miami Purity' with Alex Segura

Revisiting Chris Pavone's 'The Expats' with Danielle Trussoni

Revisiting Dorothy Sayers’ “The Man Who Knew How” with Liv Constantine

Revisiting Ethel Lina White's 'The Lady Vanishes' with Andrea Bartz

Revisiting Ruth Rendell's 'Kissing the Gunner's Daughter' with Kate White

Revisiting Tim O'Brien's 'In the Lake of the Woods' with Angie Kim

Revisiting Larry Brown's 'Father and Son' with Ace Atkins
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