• Essays

    Debt Plays a Key Role in Crime Fiction – But What About Student Loan Debt?

    David Bell on the weight of student loan debt and how it fueled his new thriller.

    July 8, 2022  By David Bell
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    Why Being a Woman Is the Perfect Preparation for Writing Psychological Suspense

    Sarah Vaughan on vigilance, doubt, abuse, and how it all seeps into psychological thrillers.

    July 7, 2022  By Sarah Vaughan
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    Southern Gothic Crime Fiction: A Palimpsest and Primer

    Faye Snowden on the most American genre, which "makes visible problems we have with race, gender, economic inequality, [and] corrupt leadership..."

    July 6, 2022  By Faye Snowden
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    Into the Past:
    Blood Transfusions in the Seventeenth Century

    Historical fiction writer Robert Lloyd on a series of bizarre and bloody experiments in Restoration England.

    July 6, 2022  By Robert Lloyd
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    Going Back To The Old Neighborhood For Inspiration

    Mark Rubinstein on writing a mafia story set in Brighton Beach.

    July 6, 2022  By Mark Rubinstein
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    A Question of Character: On James Patterson and Diversity in Crime Fiction

    What makes crime fiction today so exciting is the diversity and complexity of characters.

    July 5, 2022  By E.A. Aymar
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    Patrick Radden Keefe on Secrets, Lies, and the Murky Line Between Licit and Illicit

    "What gets blessed? Who gets out of jail free? And who doesn’t?...I’m interested in that murky netherworld..."

    July 1, 2022  By Kevin Canfield
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    Elly Griffiths on Lockdown, Locked Room Mysteries, and Pandemic Fiction

    When the world turns into a series of locked rooms, what's a mystery novelist to do?

    June 30, 2022  By Elly Griffiths
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    Horror? Crime? Both? The Custody Battle Over Edgar Allan Poe

    "In this custody battle, I’m afraid I side with our horror-writing brethren. Poe’s twisted soul is the horror genre."

    June 30, 2022  By Jeffrey B. Burton
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    The Challenge of Coloring Inside the Lines

    "[W]ithin the exercise of recrafting these well-known tropes, what possibilities for variation exist?"

    June 30, 2022  By Ann McMan
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