• Essays

    Faroe Islands: The Most Remote Outpost of Scandi Noir

    A few good mystery novels help to pass the long winter nights on this North Atlantic archipelago.

    April 11, 2022  By Paul French
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    The Literary Greats of Scotland

    Paige Shelton, author of the Scottish Bookshop mysteries, celebrates Scotland's Big Three.

    April 11, 2022  By Paige Shelton
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    How ‘Satanic Panic’ Came to Roil the Nation During the 1980s

    TV movies, breathless news reports, and amateur symbologists all played a part in the panic's mysterious spread through 1980s America.

    April 8, 2022  By Keith Roysdon
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    On Junk Science and Poverty

    How did civil litigation, where money is at stake, end up with more accurate scientific evidence than the criminal justice system, where life and liberty are at stake?

    April 8, 2022  By M. Chris Fabricant
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    For This Historical Novelist Writing About Gilded Age New York, There's Always More Research to Be Done

    For historical mystery novelists like Stacie Murphy, research is an endless source of inspiration.

    April 8, 2022  By Stacie Murphy
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    Celebrating a New Era of Mothers Being Total Badasses in Thrillers

    Superheroes are celebrated for their heroism. Supermums are celebrated for their drudgery. These books flip the script.

    April 7, 2022  By Anna Downes
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    On Time Travel and Metafiction

    Every time traveler has something they want to fix – and something they can't help but risk destroying.

    April 6, 2022  By Rachel Barenbaum
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    Meryl Streep as Muse: How Secrets Fuel Crime Narratives

    Amanda Eyre Ward explains why keeping secrets is a writer's greatest craft tool.

    April 6, 2022  By Amanda Eyre Ward
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    On The Law of Unintended Consequences

    From the Streisand Effect to the Cobra Effect, the most interesting are the perverse.

    April 6, 2022  By Jeffrey Siger
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    Guillermo Martínez: When Crime Fiction Lives in Crime Fiction

    On the long tradition and curious effects of introducing real-life literature into a mystery novel.

    April 5, 2022  By Guilllermo Martínez
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