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    The Power of a Small Town Setting for Murder Mysteries

    The Power of a Small Town Setting for Murder Mysteries

    All small towns are deeply troubled in their own special way.

    By Taylor Hale | September 18, 2020

    Gayle Lynds: My First Thriller

    Gayle Lynds: My First Thriller

    She was told nobody wanted to read spy novels by women. She proved them wrong in a big way.

    By Rick Pullen | September 17, 2020

    Romance Writing, Historical Cozies, and Drawing a Thread Between Past and Present

    Romance Writing, Historical Cozies, and Drawing a Thread Between Past and Present

    Historical Details and Human Truths

    By Callie Hutton | September 17, 2020

    Agatha Christie and The Art of Opening a Mystery Novel

    Agatha Christie and The Art of Opening a Mystery Novel

    Few authors ever drew readers so swiftly into a world of mystery and suspicion. The Queen of Crime was a master of the craft.

    By CrimeReads | September 15, 2020

    19th Century Reading Habits Come To Light Via Delightful Comments Scrawled in the Margins of a Crime Novel

    19th Century Reading Habits Come To Light Via Delightful Comments Scrawled in the Margins of a Crime Novel

    The peculiar marginalia of Lt. Gen. Coote Synge-Hutchinson

    By Curtis Evans | September 14, 2020

    How To Use Multiple Points of View To Generate Story Tension

    How To Use Multiple Points of View To Generate Story Tension

    On coming of age stories, childhood terrors, and bringing fresh points of view to writing large-cast narratives.

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    The Black Dahlia: The Long, Strange History of Los Angeles' Coldest Cold Case

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    How Josephine Tey Crafted a Masterpiece of Paranoia in Postwar England

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    In Search of America's Rarest Unknown Books by Renowned Writers

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    How to Start Your Own Cult in Five Easy Steps

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    The world is in shambles these days, which has got author August Norman thinking about starting a cult of his own.

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    While Waiting on a Life-Saving Lung Transplant, I Finally Finished Writing That Thriller

    While Waiting on a Life-Saving Lung Transplant, I Finally Finished Writing That Thriller

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    Crime Fiction and the Power of Verisimilitude

    Crime Fiction and the Power of Verisimilitude

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    You Don't Have to Be a Genre Writer to Explore Genre

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