• Craft

    Shop Talk: Nina Simon Tells the Incredible Story Behind Her Breakout Debut Novel

    Crime writers talking routine, revision, and writing in the kitchen.

    September 21, 2023  By Eli Cranor
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    How Subplots and Plot Filaments Lend Texture and Depth to Any Novel

    And they’re the key to continuity in a mystery series.

    September 20, 2023  By Michael Craft
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    Queer Crime Fiction Coming Out This Fall

    LGBTQIA+ reads for everyone!

    September 20, 2023  By Queer Crime Writers 
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    Native American Literature: Tribes and Tribulations

    "As a part Eastern Band Cherokee writer, it can be a tightrope dance deciding what to present to the outside world."

    September 18, 2023  By Deborah J. Ledford
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    Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place, and the Birth of the Modern Serial Killer Novel

    Hughes' masterpiece was fresh, feminist, and ahead of its time.
    It's also extraordinarily chilling.

    September 15, 2023  By Laura Picklesimer
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    The Dark Humor of Millennial Crime Capers

    30-somethings can laugh in the face of anything—including death.

    September 14, 2023  By Alice Bell
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    When is a Character’s Dishonesty Justified?

    "[W]hen is it ethical...for characters to do a great right, by doing a little wrong?"

    September 14, 2023  By R. J. Jacobs
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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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