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    When Time Is the Enemy: The Ticking-Clock Thriller

    When Time Is the Enemy: The Ticking-Clock Thriller

    When there's a deadline, everything is a just little more interesting.

    By Andrew Bourelle | December 20, 2021

    Jane Austen and Me

    Jane Austen and Me

    Author Jane Cleland on Getting to Know Her Namesake Through Researching Austen's Sizable Correspondence

    By Jane Cleland | December 17, 2021

    A Classic in the Making: First Look at Cliff Chiang's <em>Catwoman: Lonely City</em>

    A Classic in the Making: First Look at Cliff Chiang's Catwoman: Lonely City

    Alex Segura and Cliff Chiang discuss the creation of a Catwoman heist story.

    By Alex Segura | December 16, 2021

    What Cozy Mystery Authors Can Learn From Ted Lasso

    What Cozy Mystery Authors Can Learn From Ted Lasso

    A little kindness goes a long way

    By Tara Lush | December 15, 2021

    Writing Sex Scenes in the Realm of Mystery

    Writing Sex Scenes in the Realm of Mystery

    A Different Kind of Thrill

    By Eliza Nellums | December 13, 2021

    An Interview With the Translators of Keigo Higashino's Crime Novels

    An Interview With the Translators of Keigo Higashino's Crime Novels

    Giles Murray and Alexander O. Smith talk Tokyo side streets and traditional mysteries, interviewed by Hector DeJean.

    By Hector DeJean | December 13, 2021

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    Nothing Like a Mad Woman: 11 Unexpected Thrillers About Female Rage

    By Rachel Kapelke-Dale | December 10, 2021

    The Two Questions Every Author Is Asked

    By Victoria Thompson | December 10, 2021

    Rules for the New Generation of Cozy Mysteries

    By Kate Lansing | December 9, 2021

    The Lure of a Real-World Setting for a Mystery Novelist

    The Lure of a Real-World Setting for a Mystery Novelist

    Sometimes, a place cries out to you, asking you to make it the setting of a story. RV Raman writes about how a remote resort in Central India supplied the setting for his second mystery.

    By RV Raman | December 8, 2021

    Writing with an Accent

    Writing with an Accent

    "What is the recipe for foreign language use? How much Spanish is acceptable in an English-language book?"

    By Teresa Dovalpage | December 7, 2021

    The Curse of Englishness: Why Every British Thriller Is Also a Black Comedy

    The Curse of Englishness: Why Every British Thriller Is Also a Black Comedy

    "We specialise in a specific kind of English malice based on class and distorted moral rectitude."

    By Christopher Fowler | December 4, 2021

    Why the Heightened World of Elite Dance Is the Perfect Vehicle for a Feminist Thriller

    Why the Heightened World of Elite Dance Is the Perfect Vehicle for a Feminist Thriller

    .On ballerinas, womanhood, and the patriarchal control behind "self-discipline"

    By Erin Kelly | December 3, 2021

    My Narrator Isn't A Victim or a Damsel. She's a Survivor.

    My Narrator Isn't A Victim or a Damsel. She's a Survivor.

    Yasmin Angoe on crafting a Ghanaian-American heroine who’s even more badass than Bond. James Bond.

    By Yasmin Angoe | December 3, 2021

    Shop Talk: Alex Segura Is Always Writing, Even When He's Not

    Shop Talk: Alex Segura Is Always Writing, Even When He's Not

    Crime writers talking routine, revision, and knocking out fifteen good minutes while the kids are napping.

    By Eli Cranor | December 2, 2021

    How to Solve A Murder in Early 19th-Century London

    How to Solve A Murder in Early 19th-Century London

    The coroner, the Bow Street Runners, and murder investigation in Regency England

    By Darcie Wilde | December 1, 2021

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