• Craft

    How Do You Write a Mystery When Every Plot Is Taken?

    How to Mix Things Up, Do Justice to Tradition, and Still Keep Your Crime Writing Fresh

    March 9, 2020  By Tessa Wegert
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    The Art of Letting Your Heroes Get Beat Up Now and Again

    Sometimes the most powerful thing an author can do is kick a guy when he's down.

    March 6, 2020  By John McMahon
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    Paul Vidich on Cold War Espionage, a CIA Cover-Up, and a Family Tragedy

    The author's uncle was dosed with LSD and died outside a New York City hotel. Now, he's exploring that crime in a new thriller.

    March 6, 2020  By Kevin Larimer
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    Discovery and Decay: Lost in the ’90s 

    The formative obsessions that led to a new Brooklyn Noir.

    March 5, 2020  By William Boyle
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    The Homme Fatal: Reimagining a Noir Archetype

    Dangerous partners, queer icons, and a story that became a crime novel.

    March 5, 2020  By Russ Thomas
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    William Boyle's Technicolor Brooklyn Noir

    The author's noirs capture the borough in all its madcap, desperate, violent complexity.

    March 3, 2020  By Daneet Steffens
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    How to Write Believable, Realistic, and Responsible Violence

    A thriller author shares 7 lessons for writing violence.

    March 3, 2020  By Ed Ruggero
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    How to Be a Crime Novelist and a Parent...Without Losing Your Mind or Your Moral Compass

    Everything you wanted to know about changing diapers and solving fictional murders but were afraid to ask.

    March 2, 2020  By Jason Pinter
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    Life as a DJ Taught Me to Listen—and to Write

    On growing up in the Bronx, and spinning stories in the basement.

    February 28, 2020  By Robert Desiderio
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    Don't Go Into the Basement! (Let's Be Honest, We're Going Into the Basement)

    What writing horror (and hearing noises in the night) taught me about the impulse to explore—even in the face of danger.

    February 27, 2020  By Darcy Coates
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