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Alma Katsu: Why I Finally Decided to Write a Main Character Who Shares My Ethnicity

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The State of the Crime Novel: A Roundtable With The Edgar Nominees

Edgar Awards Nominees Reflect On How The Pandemic Has Changed Their Writing Lives

Why the Mystery Novel Is a Perfect Literary Form

David Gordon on the long, rich history of private eyes – and why contemporary novelists keep on turning to them.

Michael Nava Remembers Dick Lipez, Who Wrote Pioneering Gay Mysteries As Richard Stevenson

Dick Lipez (1938-2022), writing under the pen name of Richard Stevenson, wanted to "present a gay man as contented and not tortured."

Parenting, Paranoia, and the Pandemic

How lockdown helped one parent and author overcome fear and embrace living life to the fullest.

Shop Talk: David Joy Hates Talking About Craft (But He's Going to Make an Exception)

"It’s really a compulsion. I’d feel like I’d die if I didn’t get these stories out of me."

The Charming Mid-Century Murder Mysteries and Rich Interior Life of Edith Howie

Howie's sleuths in her well-received proto-cozy crime novels always ended up together, but she herself stayed proudly single.

What Does Home Mean During A Pandemic?

Contributors to the new Mystery Writers of America anthology "Crime Hits Home" reflect on its theme

On Writing and Living True Crime

"I never set out to be a journalist or a true crime writer, but given the central mystery of my childhood, perhaps it was inevitable."

Walking the Line: A Marriage of Thriller & Romance

"[W]ould anyone like a dark thriller-romance where the main characters aren’t forced or conditioned to love, but accidentally trip and fall into it the old-fashioned way?"

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When the writing gets personal...

Edgar Awards Nominees Reflect On How The Pandemic Has Changed Their Writing Lives

David Gordon on the long, rich history of private eyes – and why contemporary novelists keep on turning to them.

Dick Lipez (1938-2022), writing under the pen name of Richard Stevenson, wanted to "present a gay man as contented and not tortured."

How lockdown helped one parent and author overcome fear and embrace living life to the fullest.

"It’s really a compulsion. I’d feel like I’d die if I didn’t get these stories out of me."

Howie's sleuths in her well-received proto-cozy crime novels always ended up together, but she herself stayed proudly single.

Contributors to the new Mystery Writers of America anthology "Crime Hits Home" reflect on its theme

"I never set out to be a journalist or a true crime writer, but given the central mystery of my childhood, perhaps it was inevitable."

"[W]ould anyone like a dark thriller-romance where the main characters aren’t forced or conditioned to love, but accidentally trip and fall into it the old-fashioned way?"

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