• Essays

    Why Do We Feel So Much Empathy for Villains?

    "The ability to go on loving someone even when that person has done something awful is one of the hallmarks of who we are."

    January 31, 2022  By Jacquelyn Mitchard
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    So You Want to Marry a Mystery Writer

    Or, humorous relationship advice from the Victorian Era.

    January 31, 2022  By Elizabeth C. Bunce
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    Into The Maze: A British Author Heads To Corn Country

    Small towns, big agriculture, Midwestern charm and corporate shenanigans.

    January 28, 2022  By Erin Young
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    On The Afterparty and the Rise of the "Millennial Whodunnit"

    Olivia Rutigliano takes stock of the playful new mystery series

    January 28, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Growing Up Southern Gothic

    "[B]ehind all the gilded wrapping, there is a fecund abundance of decay and degradation."

    January 28, 2022  By Kristi DeMeester
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    Paul Vidich's New York: Hello to All This

    The spy novelist reflects on Joan Didion, Ian Fleming, E.B. White, and a long history of complex feelings toward New York.

    January 28, 2022  By Paul Vidich
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    The Life and Times of John Street, aka John Rhode, aka Vintage Mystery’s Master of Murder Means

    Through decades and hundreds of novels, the man was never at a loss for a good plot.

    January 27, 2022  By Curtis Evans
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    The Diabolical Witchcraft of MI9: How British Intelligence Encouraged POWs to Escape and Gather Intelligence

    Silk maps, coded messages, and ration tins...

    January 27, 2022  By Stephanie Graves
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    Winter, Wellies, and Whisky

    Why Scotland Is The Coziest Setting of All

    January 26, 2022  By Traci Hall
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    Art Imitating Life Imitating Art

    Rick Mofina on the crazy mixed-up world of novels following life and life following novels, and on and on it goes...

    January 26, 2022  By Rick Mofina
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