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An Appreciation of Genre-Breaking Mysteries
These books start out as noir, then take sharp left turn...
By
Nick Mamatas
| November 9, 2021
How to Use the Environment of a Novel to Enhance Suspense
Sometimes the setting really is a character in itself. But how do you get there?
By
Alice Henderson
| November 9, 2021
Rex Pickett On The Strange Experience of Donating His Papers To The Archives
When the author of
Sideways
sent his papers off to be catalogued, he never expected to find inspiration for his next novel.
By
Rex Pickett
| November 9, 2021
Soft Boiled Mysteries for Women Over 50
"The soft-boiled genre is embedded firmly between the cozy and the hard-boiled, like middle-aged and elder women ensconced between siren and senior."
By
Gabrielle St. George
| November 8, 2021
The Psychology of Reading and Writing Crime Fiction
What makes crime stories so therapeutic? Writer and family counselor Lynne Reeves has some theories.
By
Lynne Reeves
| November 8, 2021
What Agatha Christie's Novels—And Life—Have to Teach Today’s Crime Writers
A Christie Curriculum
By
Lori Rader-Day
| November 4, 2021
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
The Lure of Objects: On the Outsized Importance of Talismans and Symbols
By
Heather Redmond
| November 4, 2021
When Reality Is Too Strange To Make It Into Your Novel
By
Anne Emery
| November 4, 2021
A Celebration of Sleuth-Mothers
By
Raquel V. Reyes
| November 3, 2021
Anything You Don’t See: Some Ghosts of Southern Brooklyn
William Boyle on Brooklyn in the final days before 9-11
By
William Boyle
| November 2, 2021
How Crime Fiction Can Help Us Understand The Many Layers of Violence in Society
"We’re wired for small-scale, agonistic conflict, where we feel, at a gut level, that we have agency."
By
Joy Castro
| November 1, 2021
On Spiritualism and the Afterlife in Henry James'
Turn of the Screw
"It is the very function of ghosts to undermine confidence—for good or ill—that the dead are truly set apart."
By
Susan L. Mizruchi
| October 29, 2021
What Makes a Psychological Thriller?
Nicci French on the fine line that divides everyday life and the raw material of psychological thrillers.
By
Nicci French
| October 29, 2021
Five Eerie Tales of Folk Horror
Tom Cox looks at a few favorite stories that "touch on the uncanny and mystical in a low-key way"
By
Tom Cox
| October 29, 2021
Shop Talk: Michael Koryta Writes 1500 Words and Gets to Ring the Bell
Crime writers talk craft, routine, and finding satisfaction in the work.
By
Eli Cranor
| October 28, 2021
Literary Crime: The Search for an Elusive Genre
Dancing at the Edge of Crime
By
Tess Little
| October 28, 2021
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