• Craft

    Steve Cavanagh on Writing Legal Thrillers for the Little Guy—and Serial Con Artists

    A world of lawyers, mobsters, and con men who always punch up.

    August 12, 2019  By Daneet Steffens
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    The Deeply Unsettling Noir of Dorothy B. Hughes

    Celebrating the dark visions of literature's queen of noir.

    August 9, 2019  By Dwyer Murphy
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    Searching for Sharon Tate

    On the Dangerous Moral Ground of Celebrity Obsession

    August 9, 2019  By Gary Lippman
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    The Best One-Star Reviews of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

    "In about one hour, I am going to walk down to the beach and throw this book into the Red Sea."

    August 8, 2019  By Dwyer Murphy
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    The Rise and Fall and Restoration of Anna Katharine Green’s 'The Leavenworth Case'

    Centuries pass and everyone has an opinion about the landmark novel that was once one of the world's most widely read books.

    August 7, 2019  By Curtis Evans
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    Fake Paintings, Forged Van Goghs, and Finding Inspiration in Unexpected Places

    "Why do people fake paintings? Is the motivation profit, vanity, revenge?"

    August 7, 2019  By Clare Clark
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    When the Narrator Doesn't Get It: 10 Shades of Deception

    How authors use unreliable narrators and warped realities to tell mysteries that readers still have a chance to solve.

    August 6, 2019  By Hallie Ephron
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    Inverting—and Avoiding—the ‘Dead Girl’ Trope

    Writers Carolyn Murnick and Alex Segura discuss the dangers and pitfalls of the crime genre’s most problematic trend.

    August 5, 2019  By Alex Segura
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    6 Rules for Writing Realistic, Meaningful Gunfights

    "Gunfights are chaos events...Nothing is clear, no one is heroic, self-urination is quite common."

    August 1, 2019  By Stephen Hunter
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    The Secrets of the
    Forensic Artist

    Facial reconstructions, crime scene sketches, and lots of erasers—all in a day's work for forensic artists.

    July 31, 2019  By Carrie Stuart Parks
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