• Essays

    The French Murder Case That Shocked a Francophile Family Into Writing A Detective Series

    Gerald Jay Goldberg was haunted by a brutal murder of a tourist in the South of France. Decades later, his family finishes his series.

    November 22, 2021  By Robert Goldberg
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    Crime Fiction Is Ridiculous. We Might As Well Have Fun With It.

    "[T]here needs to be a tacit acknowledgement...that author and reader are both in on the same joke. And it is a joke."

    November 22, 2021  By Daisy Waugh
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    The Downstairs World: A Fascinating Setting for a Murder Mystery Sleuth

    There's no better sleuth for an interwar novel than a housekeeper.

    November 22, 2021  By Colleen Cambridge
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    Forensic Psychologist Richard Lettieri On The Many Pathways to a False Confession

    Coercive tactics, subtle suggestions, and the urge to comply with authority figures all may cause the innocent to confess.

    November 19, 2021  By Richard Lettieri, PhD
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    Making Good out of Murder: On Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning, Crime Reporters and Crime Writers

    In the 1930s, crime reporters and spouses Bristow and Manning turned their New Orleans crime beat into fertile fodder for fiction.

    November 18, 2021  By Curtis Evans
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    What We Owe To The Victorians

    Modern sanitation, fast transit, global communications, and so much more...

    November 18, 2021  By Emily Brightwell
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    Why Are There So Many Missing Mothers in Fiction with Empowered Young Heroines?

    Sara Foster on challenging a persistent trope

    November 18, 2021  By Sara Foster
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    Having Faith in Thrillers

    Two Christian authors reflect on what themes of faith can do for thriller stories.

    November 17, 2021  By Andrews and Wilson
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    Getting It Wrong: How Thomas Perry Learned to Live With His Books' Errors

    On the long and curious history of the mistakes that slip into published editions of books.

    November 16, 2021  By Thomas Perry
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    The Story of Espionage Is (Often) the Story of Incompetence

    "Blundering is writ large across the history of betrayal."

    November 15, 2021  By James Wolff
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