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

When the writing gets personal...

April 27, 2022  By Alma Katsu
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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

April 26, 2022  By Molly Odintz
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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.

April 26, 2022  By David Gordon
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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."

April 26, 2022  By Michael Nava
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Parenting, Paranoia, and the Pandemic

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

April 25, 2022  By Samantha M. Bailey
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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."

April 21, 2022  By Eli Cranor
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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.

April 21, 2022  By Curtis Evans
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What Does Home Mean During A Pandemic?

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

April 20, 2022  By CrimeReads 
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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."

April 19, 2022  By Kim Powers
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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?"

April 15, 2022  By Nicole Fanning
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