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John Copenhaver

John Copenhaver
Copenhaver’s historical crime novel, Dodging and Burning (Pegasus), won the 2019 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel, and his second novel, The Savage Kind, won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Mystery. He cohosts on the House of Mystery Radio Show, and for years, wrote a crime fiction review column for Lambda Literary called “Blacklight.” He’s a faculty mentor in University of Nebraska’s Low-Residency MFA program, and he teaches at VCU in Richmond, VA. His forthcoming third novel, Hall of Mirrors, is the sequel to The Savage Kind.


Ryan Murphy’s Dahmer Equates Queerness with Monstrosity

"What happens...when you marry the aesthetics of Murphy’s brand and his straight pandering to a true crime story about Jeffrey Dahmer?"

January 6, 2023  By John Copenhaver
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Sympathy for the de Vil: Reading Beyond Likability

Readers shouldn't set too high a bar for fictional empathy—and authors shouldn't indulge in exaggerated excuses for their character's bad behavior.

October 5, 2021  By John Copenhaver
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The Femme Fatale: Subverting and Complicating a Noir Trope

How crime novels—and two high-profile TV adaptations—are challenging our ideas about female criminality.

September 13, 2019  By John Copenhaver
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Closure: Crime Fiction's Most Satisfying and Elusive Gift

How Fragments Become Mysteries, Solved and Unsolved

April 27, 2018  By John Copenhaver
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