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Sarah Weinman

Sarah Weinman
Sarah Weinman, a CrimeReads contributing editor and columnist, is the editor of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s (Library of America) and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense. Her first nonfiction book, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World, was published by Ecco in 2018, and her book Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free is forthcoming in 2022.


“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time

Sarah Weinman in Praise of an Innovative and Timeless Work of Detective Fiction
April 16, 2025  By Sarah Weinman
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Sarah Weinman on the Not-So-Unlikely Friendship Between Vladimir Nabokov and William F. Buckley, Jr.

“What is bad for the Reds is good for me.”
February 22, 2022  By Sarah Weinman
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On the Politics and Pressures of Chronicling a 50-Year-Old Murder

Sarah Weinman Talks to Patrick Radden Keefe About Say Nothing
February 26, 2019  By Sarah Weinman
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The Showgirl Who Discovered Lolita

How Nabokov's Masterpiece Found Its American Publisher
November 26, 2018  By Sarah Weinman
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