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Meryl Streep as Muse: How Secrets Fuel Crime Narratives

Meryl Streep as Muse: How Secrets Fuel Crime Narratives

Amanda Eyre Ward explains why keeping secrets is a writer's greatest craft tool.

By Amanda Eyre Ward | April 6, 2022

Forget <em>Frankenstein</em>. It's Time To Read <em>The Mummy!</em>

Forget Frankenstein. It's Time To Read The Mummy!

Lisa Tuttle on The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, arguably the first novel to use now-common scifi tropes.

By Lisa Tuttle | April 5, 2022

Guillermo Martínez: When Crime Fiction Lives in Crime Fiction

Guillermo Martínez: When Crime Fiction Lives in Crime Fiction

On the long tradition and curious effects of introducing real-life literature into a mystery novel.

By Guilllermo Martínez | April 5, 2022

On Cowriting and Mourning

On Cowriting and Mourning

A mother's illness spurred her family to write a novel—together.

By Timothy David Mack | April 1, 2022

Use Yourself

Use Yourself

In Tell Me Everything, Erika Krouse becomes a private investigator and lands in a complex sexual assault case

By Lisa Levy | March 31, 2022

Funny Girls, Dangerous Women: Humor in the Modern Crime Novel

Funny Girls, Dangerous Women: Humor in the Modern Crime Novel

"[T]he tonal shift created by humor also allows for a brief respite, a safe space of contemplation..."

By Candice Wuehle | March 30, 2022

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Preston and Child: The Most Productive Writing Team in Fiction

Preston and Child: The Most Productive Writing Team in Fiction

Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston on their decades of collaboration.

By Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child | March 23, 2022

Shop Talk: Eli Cranor Goes Down to the Basement, Looks out at <em>True Grit</em> Country, and Dreams of Elmore Leonard

Shop Talk: Eli Cranor Goes Down to the Basement, Looks out at True Grit Country, and Dreams of Elmore Leonard

It was a long journey from coaching football to his breakout debut novel, but there's no doubting it: Eli Cranor has arrived.

By Dwyer Murphy | March 22, 2022

Black Sunset: New Essential Horror Reads from the American West

Black Sunset: New Essential Horror Reads from the American West

"There’s scares in them thar hills. You just have to know how to find them."

By Matthew Lyons | March 22, 2022

Books that Smash the Patriarchy

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Spend Women's History Month with these thrillers that center women's experiences.

By Jayne Cowie | March 22, 2022

How One Author Forced Himself to Reconsider Expectations About Violence in Fiction

How One Author Forced Himself to Reconsider Expectations About Violence in Fiction

Michael Landweber wanted to write a book where violence was absent in all the places we most expected it.

By Michael Landweber | March 21, 2022

Six Narrators with Unusual Perspectives

Six Narrators with Unusual Perspectives

An unborn child, an old badger, an intelligent mannequin, and other unfamiliar viewpoints in fiction.

By Silje Ulstein | March 18, 2022

The Two Camps of Crime: Christie’s Cool, Cozy Tales of Ratiocination and Highsmith’s Psycho-Sexual Deep Waters

The Two Camps of Crime: Christie’s Cool, Cozy Tales of Ratiocination and Highsmith’s Psycho-Sexual Deep Waters

Wayne Johnson traces the lineage of modern crime fiction.

By Wayne Johnson | March 16, 2022

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