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A Science Fiction Author's Pointers for Worldbuilding with Negative Space

A Science Fiction Author's Pointers for Worldbuilding with Negative Space

"A great deal of worldbuilding can happen with what is left unsaid."

By Stina Leicht | January 28, 2021

Marie Dean Arrington: The Woman Who Fled From a Florida Electric Chair

Marie Dean Arrington: The Woman Who Fled From a Florida Electric Chair

Criminal Broads Presents: Most Wanted

By Tori Telfer | January 27, 2021

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Murder: A Roadside Killing and The Novel That Captured an Era

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Murder: A Roadside Killing and The Novel That Captured an Era

On Nevada’s 1940 "One-Cent Hitchhiker Slaying"

By Curtis Evans | January 27, 2021

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Choices: When Characters Face Existential Dilemmas

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Choices: When Characters Face Existential Dilemmas

A look at five films where morality is supplanted by need

By Thomas H. Carry | January 27, 2021

10 Debut Novels You Should Read in January

10 Debut Novels You Should Read in January

Rural noir, family thrillers, and coming-of-age mysteries.

By CrimeReads | January 27, 2021

John le Carré Offered a Piece of Advice to a Struggling Novelist. She'll Never Forget It.

John le Carré Offered a Piece of Advice to a Struggling Novelist. She'll Never Forget It.

When Kate Weinberg met David Cornwell, she was determined not to mention to him the crime novel she was struggling to plot.

By Kate Weinberg | January 26, 2021

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Millenial Cozies: A New Generation Discovers the Joys of the Cozy Mystery

By Kate Lansing | January 26, 2021

10 Novels That Explore True Crime Obsession

By Eliza Jane Brazier | January 26, 2021

Announcing the 2021 Edgar Award Nominations

By CrimeReads | January 25, 2021

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | January 25, 2021

Murder and Justice in the Last Days of the Canadian Frontier

Murder and Justice in the Last Days of the Canadian Frontier

How an 1893 murder and subsequent trials in British Columbia revealed a legal system in a state of change.

By Chad Reimer | January 25, 2021

Dark Minds: How Crime Fiction Reveals the True Nature of Sociopaths

Dark Minds: How Crime Fiction Reveals the True Nature of Sociopaths

Charming, fearless, and manipulative sociopaths have always been with us, in fiction and in reality.

By Joanna Schaffhausen | January 25, 2021

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

In 1965, a pair of radical bohemian journalists invented Scandinavian Noir and reimagined what crime fiction could do.

By Neil Nyren | January 22, 2021

That time Sherlock Holmes appeared in an Arsène Lupin story as

That time Sherlock Holmes appeared in an Arsène Lupin story as "Herlock Sholmès"

When author Maurice Leblanc tried to write the great English detective into his latest Arsène Lupin story, Arthur Conan Doyle protested. Fortunately, Leblanc found a solution.

By Olivia Rutigliano | January 22, 2021

Crime-Fighting Broad: Jessie Levy, Defender of the Dillinger Gang

Crime-Fighting Broad: Jessie Levy, Defender of the Dillinger Gang

Criminal Broads Presents: The Woman in the Boys Club

By Tori Telfer | January 21, 2021

Killing the People You Love: Fiction and Medicine Intersect

Killing the People You Love: Fiction and Medicine Intersect

Character development and destruction in the realm of psychological thrillers

By John Burley | January 21, 2021

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