Not Ready for Crime Time

Science fiction and fantasy are still totally the genres I love the most, and I seem to be incapable of writing stories myself that don't involve monsters or ancient cults (who were actually really onto something) or weird gods or psychic powers or ghosts or shapechangers, but I've been majorly into reading crime fiction in the past year. Having read a couple hundred mystery/crime/etc. books I'm starting to figure out the stuff I like: nihilistic noir about loser criminals (James Cain! Jason ...