• Essays

    Seven Tips For Choosing the Perfect Name For Your Characters

    Number One: Keep An Eye On The Character's Age and Era!

    August 25, 2022  By Freida McFadden
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    On Crosswords and Crime Fiction

    What is it about puzzles and crosswords that lend themselves so well to a good crime novel?

    August 25, 2022  By Kenneth L. Toppell
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    Jeff Abbott on Restarting a Beloved Series

    After a pivot to psychological thrillers, Abbott returns to his Sam Capra acton series.

    August 24, 2022  By Jeff Abbott
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    Dark Funny: The Common Purpose of Horror and Comedy

    Lily Sparks on the deep affinity between two forms of storytelling.

    August 24, 2022  By Lily Sparks
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    The Soap Opera That Brought a Noir Edge to Daytime TV

    ‘The Edge of Night’ gave soap viewers daily murder and mayhem

    August 24, 2022  By Keith Roysdon
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    Jincy Willett on the Why of Murder

    The finest writers do not make the most horrific deeds inevitable, but rather understandable.

    August 24, 2022  By Jincy Willett
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    Believe It or Not: Blending Real and Unreal in Fiction Thrillers

    "Fact or fiction? Does it pass the smell test of believability?"

    August 24, 2022  By Victor Acquista
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    Two August Thrillers That Complicate the Definition of Victim

    A close reading of Complicit, by Winnie M. Li, and The Last Housewife, by Ashley Winstead

    August 23, 2022  By Samantha Ladwig
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    Almost Two Centuries of Impossible Crimes: Locked Rooms in Detective Fiction

    Katharine Schellman on “the grandest game in the world.”

    August 23, 2022  By Katharine Schellman
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    It’s Happening Again: On Jews and Violence

    What putting together an anthology taught Kenneth Wishnia about the resurgence of antisemitism.

    August 23, 2022  By Kenneth Wishnia
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