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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 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
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
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
The formative obsessions that led to a new Brooklyn Noir.
By
William Boyle
| March 5, 2020
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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William Boyle's Technicolor Brooklyn Noir
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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
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)
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
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
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
A Conversation Between Mary Kubica and Megan Miranda
By
Mary Kubica
| February 18, 2020
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
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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