• Essays

    When Reality Is Too Strange To Make It Into Your Novel

    "You can't make this up": Anne Emery on the bizarre coincidences behind her latest historical mystery.

    November 4, 2021  By Anne Emery
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    A Celebration of Sleuth-Mothers

    "Society often overlooks and even erases women caring for children...allow[ing] the sleuth-mother to observe and investigate in the shadows."

    November 3, 2021  By Raquel V. Reyes
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    Ben and Stella Dickson: From Outlaws to Folk Heroes

    Bonnie and Clyde weren't the only couple robbing banks and capturing hearts in the 1930s.

    November 3, 2021  By Dietrich Kalteis
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    Anything You Don’t See: Some Ghosts of Southern Brooklyn

    William Boyle on Brooklyn in the final days before 9-11

    November 2, 2021  By William Boyle
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    A Crime Novelist's Mea Culpa

    "I confess that in my novel there is a beautiful corpse, and that she is female. I may have chosen not to creepily linger on the details of her body as she lays on the slab at the morgue, but she is still there."

    November 2, 2021  By Eloísa Díaz
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    Alex Schulman: In Order To Heal From The Trauma of My Past, I Had To Stop Ignoring It

    "The past lives, and perhaps our power lies in how we interpret it"

    November 1, 2021  By Alex Schulman
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    Harare, Zimbabwe: Writing Crime in a Tough Town

    An African capital with turbulent politics and an impressive literary output.

    November 1, 2021  By Paul French
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    How Crime Fiction Can Help Us Understand The Many Layers of Violence in Society

    "We’re wired for small-scale, agonistic conflict, where we feel, at a gut level, that we have agency."

    November 1, 2021  By Joy Castro
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    What Makes a Psychological Thriller?

    Nicci French on the fine line that divides everyday life and the raw material of psychological thrillers.

    October 29, 2021  By Nicci French
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    Growing Up Spooky

    A fond remembrance of the ghoulish geek culture of 1960s & 70s.

    October 29, 2021  By Keith Roysdon
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