• Essays

    I Wrote A Thriller to Channel My Post-Partum Anger. Then The Pandemic Hit.

    "It no longer felt like I was just writing about the 1950s and the domestic cage—it felt like I was living it."

    August 16, 2021  By Karin Tanabe
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    Reading Flawed Protagonists: Relatability Versus Likeability

    In order to depict people who are human, I think it is an absolute prerequisite that they be flawed in some way.

    August 16, 2021  By Bracken MacLeod
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    Tapping Into My Memories of the Catskills to Write a Mystery Novel

    My grandmother's farm was much more than a home—it was a boardinghouse, a time capsule, and a source of inspiration.

    August 13, 2021  By Kaitlyn Dunnett
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    Die Hard with a Vengeance is the most relatable "summer in the city" movie ever

    "Too many films are love-letters to New York City; Die Hard with a Vengeance is one of its rare pieces of hate mail."

    August 12, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    A History of Serial Killers Who Went Quiet Before Being Caught

    Dormant for years (or even decades), these infamous criminals were undone by new technology, old passions, or giant egos.

    August 11, 2021  By Joanna Schaffhausen
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    What's the Secret to Writing a Bestseller? Hint: There Isn't One.

    "No one—and I mean no one, not your editor, not the publisher, not the critics—has any idea what makes one book sell millions of copies while other, often better, books do not."

    August 11, 2021  By Joy Fielding
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    Using Fiction to Demonstrate the Power of Therapy

    Shanora Williams takes mental health seriously. Her new psychological thriller warns against the dangers of letting trauma fester.

    August 11, 2021  By Shanora Williams
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    Florence Rush and the Providence White Slavers

    The profitable panic that inspired both journalists and crime writers to focus on the (extremely exaggerated) crisis of "white slavery"

    August 10, 2021  By Curtis Evans
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    When You Can’t Call the Cops

    Michele Weinstat Miller endured rape, incarceration, and addiction and later became an attorney. She decided to write a thriller about people who don't feel safe calling the police.

    August 10, 2021  By Michele Weinstat Miller
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    The Rise of Welsh Crime Fiction

    A country of just over three million people is producing a good deal of the world's most addictive crime fiction.

    August 9, 2021  By Paul French
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