• Essays

    How Writing about Immigration Helped Me Find Home

    "it took the writing of an immigration thriller for me to accept my otherness."

    February 8, 2023  By Roxana Arama
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    The Accidental Culinary Cozy Author

    "[D]escribing Cajun cuisine in my Cajun Country Mystery series made me hungry and I thought it might have the same effect on readers..."

    February 8, 2023  By Ellen Byron
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    Harry Dean Stanton is the Hero of Every Noir

    Or, a brief taxonomy of a very strange oeuvre.

    February 6, 2023  By J. D. O'Brien
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    São Paulo: City of Extremes

    Crime and the City visits the Brazilian megalopolis in search of good books.

    February 6, 2023  By Paul French
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    The Novelist As Method Actor

    Or, how to get to know your characters inside and out.

    February 6, 2023  By M. J. Rose
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    The Lure of Government Secrets and Treasures

    Or, on declassified intelligence and the questions we'll never answer.

    February 3, 2023  By Chad Boudreaux
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    Marcia Muller: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

    A guide to the life and work of "the founding mother" of the hardboiled woman as private eye.

    February 3, 2023  By Neil Nyren
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    “They just weren’t the kind of people for that”: The 1934 Smith Family Massacre in Demopolis, Alabama

    On "an appalling family tragedy" that reappeared in a 1944 detective novel.

    February 3, 2023  By Curtis Evans
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    On Writing While Dying

    Steven Womack on continuing his mystery series in the midst of devastating news and endless medical treatments.

    February 2, 2023  By Steven Womack
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    Capturing the Voice—and Honesty—of Adolescence

    Young narrators are the witnesses who speak the truth in American literature.

    February 2, 2023  By Sterling Watson
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