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    Writing a Domestic Survival Thriller

    On Marrying Life-or-Death Stakes with the Trials of Suburbia

    September 13, 2023  By Lee Kelly
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    When True Crime Meets Police Brutality

    True-crime accounts of someone killed by police shouldn’t be any different from other murder investigations, but they are.

    September 12, 2023  By Justine Barron
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    The Girl and the Faun: Eden Phillpotts, His Crime Fiction and His Strange Relationship with His Daughter Adelaide

    The prolific and long-lived Phillpotts was Agatha Christie's neighbor and early reader. He was also a monster.

    September 11, 2023  By Curtis Evans
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    The Gilded Age: On Invention and Excess

    Alyssa Maxwell on capturing the technologies of an unequal and rapidly changing era in historical fiction.

    September 11, 2023  By Alyssa Maxwell
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    James Ellroy Reveals the Real Reason He Writes

    "Disingenuousness is a sin. I’m writing this essay in the spirit of atonement. My ongoing biography should be revised to reflect this..."

    September 7, 2023  By James Ellroy
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    Dorothy L Sayers and the Thirty-Foot Drain: Searching for Peter Wimsey

    James R. Benn goes on a quest to discover the original inspiration for Sayers' iconic war-weary character.

    September 6, 2023  By James R. Benn
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    The Backlist: Revisiting Vicki Hendricks' 'Miami Purity' with Alex Segura

    Polly Stewart in discussion with today's top crime writers, returning to some of their favorite books.

    August 31, 2023  By Polly Stewart
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    Margot Douaihy on Queering Crime Fiction and Embracing Metaphysical Mystery

    Read an interview with Douaihy and see the cover reveal of her second Sister Holiday mystery, Blessed Water

    August 30, 2023  By Molly Odintz
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    Dementia in Crime Fiction: Rage and The Ticking Clock

    Hugh Lessig on what it means to write a character with dementia.

    August 30, 2023  By Hugh Lessig
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    Skewing the Murder Mystery With an Animal's Point of View

    On Animals As Sleuths (and Culprits)

    August 28, 2023  By Leonie Swann
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