• Craft

    Remembering Gore Vidal's Slyly Subversive Mystery Novels

    He was blacklisted by the literary establishment. So he turned to mystery fiction, and gave the world a very new kind of detective.

    July 26, 2019  By David Masciotra
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    Far-Flung Thrillers for World Travelers

    A good book makes the best companion for international travel.

    July 24, 2019  By Daniel Nieh
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    The Art of Setting Your Crime Novel in a Not-So-Distant Past

    How crime authors capture the little details of life in the 1960s, 70s, and other evocative eras of recent history.

    July 24, 2019  By Wendy Corsi Staub
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    Laura Lippman: My 35-Year Love Affair with Marjorie Morningstar

    "To me, it's a unicorn of a book—a so-called women's novel, written by a man, that takes its heroine very seriously."

    July 23, 2019  By Laura Lippman
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    Raymond Chandler: The Art of Beginning a Crime Story

    The 10 Greatest Opening Paragraphs from a Noir Master

    July 23, 2019  By Dwyer Murphy
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    When Crime Authors Write Non-Crime Books

    8 crime authors moonlighting in other forms of literature

    July 22, 2019  By Lisa Levy
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    The Silence of the Lambs: The Seminal Serial Killer Novel, and Still the Best

    A thriller author and her forensics expert partner celebrate the literary and investigative merits of an all-time great thriller.

    July 22, 2019  By Ashley Dyer
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    Patricia Moyes: A Crime Reader's Guide to the Classics

    In midcentury Britain, there was one more entry into the Golden Age of Mystery

    July 19, 2019  By Neil Nyren
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    The Evolution of Walt Longmire: Somewhere Between Laughter and Death

    A Bookseller's Guide to Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire Series

    July 18, 2019  By Scott Montgomery
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    Edna Buchanan's Miami

    She was Edna Rydzik in Jersey. In Miami, she was the hardboiled crime writer who defined an era and left a complex legacy.

    July 16, 2019  By Sarah Weinman
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