• Craft

    Three Kinds of Freak: Writing Heroes and Stories that Dismantle the Status Quo

    Zee Carlstrom on writing more interesting characters.

    April 9, 2025  By Zee Carlstrom
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    Belinda Bauer On Obsession, Greed, and the Dangerous World of Rare Egg Trafficking

    "[E]very word is fighting for space on the page and on the screen...I get in, I say what I need to, and I get out."

    April 9, 2025  By Jenny Bartoy
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    Molly Harper on Using Romantic Subplots to Help Characters Solve Mysteries

    "I can’t fathom writing a story that doesn’t have some romance element to it."

    April 8, 2025  By Molly Harper
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    Why Tariq Ashkanani Chose to Set His New Novel in America

    "There is freedom in being able to play a little fast and loose with the rules, a recurring motif that I find predominantly in US fiction."

    April 8, 2025  By Tariq Ashkanani
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    Remembering the Bleak, Beautiful Poetry of Ken Bruen's Noir

    Bruen wrote unflinchingly of the darkest parts of society, and his Jack Taylor series was the epitome of noir style.

    April 7, 2025  By Scott Montgomery
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    High Net Worth Victims: Why We Love our Murderees to be Filthy Rich

    "Killing the rich—in literature at least—appears to come with a built-in motive, one that likely implicates us all."

    April 7, 2025  By Matt Plass
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    How Grady Hendrix Came to Love Horror

    Read an excerpt and see the cover reveal for the new anthology "Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature", edited by Becky Siegel Spratford

    April 4, 2025  By Grady Hendrix
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    New International Fiction to Check Out This Spring

    Cultural clashes in India, pop stars in France, queer heroes in Turkey, and more

    April 4, 2025  By Molly Odintz
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    Queer Crime Writers Presents: LGBTQIA+ Spring Reads!

    11 new and upcoming queer mysteries and thrillers to carry you through to summer

    April 3, 2025  By Queer Crime Writers 
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    The Backlist: Reading Alison Gaylin's 'What Remains of Me' with Alafair Burke

    Burke and Polly Stewart revisit Gaylin's twisty two-timeline Hollywood thriller.

    April 3, 2025  By Polly Stewart
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