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    Writing a Crime Novel About Munchausen-By-Proxy—While Pregnant

    Writing a Crime Novel About Munchausen-By-Proxy—While Pregnant

    A crime author reckons with her darkest fears.

    By Emily Elgar | March 9, 2020

    How Do You Write a Mystery When Every Plot Is Taken?

    How Do You Write a Mystery When Every Plot Is Taken?

    How to Mix Things Up, Do Justice to Tradition, and Still Keep Your Crime Writing Fresh

    By Tessa Wegert | March 9, 2020

    The Art of Letting Your Heroes Get Beat Up Now and Again

    The Art of Letting Your Heroes Get Beat Up Now and Again

    Sometimes the most powerful thing an author can do is kick a guy when he's down.

    By John McMahon | March 6, 2020

    Paul Vidich on Cold War Espionage, a CIA Cover-Up, and a Family Tragedy

    Paul Vidich on Cold War Espionage, a CIA Cover-Up, and a Family Tragedy

    The author's uncle was dosed with LSD and died outside a New York City hotel. Now, he's exploring that crime in a new thriller.

    By Kevin Larimer | March 6, 2020

    Discovery and Decay: Lost in the ’90s 

    Discovery and Decay: Lost in the ’90s 

    The formative obsessions that led to a new Brooklyn Noir.

    By William Boyle | March 5, 2020

    The Homme Fatal: Reimagining a Noir Archetype

    The Homme Fatal: Reimagining a Noir Archetype

    Dangerous partners, queer icons, and a story that became a crime novel.

    By Russ Thomas | March 5, 2020

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    By Daneet Steffens | March 3, 2020

    How to Write Believable, Realistic, and Responsible Violence

    By Ed Ruggero | March 3, 2020

    How to Be a Crime Novelist and a Parent...Without Losing Your Mind or Your Moral Compass

    By Jason Pinter | March 2, 2020

    Life as a DJ Taught Me to Listen—and to Write

    Life as a DJ Taught Me to Listen—and to Write

    On growing up in the Bronx, and spinning stories in the basement.

    By Robert Desiderio | February 28, 2020

    Don't Go Into the Basement! (Let's Be Honest, We're Going Into the Basement)

    Don't Go Into the Basement! (Let's Be Honest, We're Going Into the Basement)

    What writing horror (and hearing noises in the night) taught me about the impulse to explore—even in the face of danger.

    By Darcy Coates | February 27, 2020

    How to Turn A Man into a Legend

    How to Turn A Man into a Legend

    Why I chose to take real-life Arctic explorer Matthew Henson, drop him in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance, and have him solve a murder.

    By Gary Phillips | February 25, 2020

    The Life and Work of C.W. Grafton: Crime Novelist, Lawyer, and Father to a Mystery Icon

    The Life and Work of C.W. Grafton: Crime Novelist, Lawyer, and Father to a Mystery Icon

    He's remembered now as the father of Sue Grafton. But for a brief period, he was one of crime fiction's most promising authors.

    By L. Wayne Hicks | February 21, 2020

    Two Authors Talk Psychological Thrillers, Motherhood, and Maine

    Two Authors Talk Psychological Thrillers, Motherhood, and Maine

    A Conversation Between Mary Kubica and Megan Miranda

    By Mary Kubica | February 18, 2020

    Unreliable Narrators Who Break Every Rule We Thought We Knew

    Unreliable Narrators Who Break Every Rule We Thought We Knew

    Some narrators go beyond unreliability and change our very conception of narrative storytelling.

    By Michael Seidlinger | February 17, 2020

    The Difficult Art of Ending a Crime Fiction Series

    The Difficult Art of Ending a Crime Fiction Series

    Two authors—working from opposite ends of Florida—bring epic noir series to a close, and live to tell the tale.

    By Steph Post | February 12, 2020

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