• Essays

    Why So Many Journalists Turn to Careers in Crime Fiction

    Michael Robotham on the journey from crime reporter to novelist

    February 14, 2023  By Michael Robotham
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    Spouses with Secrets

    How are so many criminals able to trick the people closest to them?

    February 14, 2023  By Hank Phillippi Ryan
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    The Monastery of the Mind

    William Kotzwinkle could never become a monk. So he created one in crime fiction instead.

    February 14, 2023  By William Kotzwinkle
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    The Strange Real-Life Mystery Behind Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"

    Fact meets fiction in Poe’s classic story of a murderer.

    February 13, 2023  By Dean Jobb
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    Flowers as Weapons

    "[T]here’s often a fine line between the beautiful and the dangerous..."

    February 13, 2023  By K. L. Cerra
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    The Perils of the Work Trip—and Why It’s Thriller Gold

    Lexie Elliott on taking her characters "somewhere unfamiliar and unnerving, somewhere they couldn’t easily escape from."

    February 13, 2023  By Lexie Elliott
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    Charles Addams Drew the Credits for Murder By Death

    The Neil Simon murder mystery movie has a beautifully-illustrated opening. (The rest of the movie has issues.)

    February 10, 2023  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    The Many Levels of Mystery: ‘Whodunnit?’ to ‘Whydunnit?’ and Beyond

    "There is mystery and then there is Mystery."

    February 10, 2023  By Daniel Taylor
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    Sympathy for the Specter

    Or, why ghosts should inspire more pity than fear.

    February 9, 2023  By Johnny Compton
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    How Writing a Genderfluid Mystery Helped Me Understand Myself as Genderqueer

    "It took a fictional character in a novel to allow a real part of myself to live and breathe."

    February 9, 2023  By Jennifer Savran Kelly
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