• Essays

    Wine and Crime: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

    J.T. Falco on the hustlers, fraudsters, and murderers of the wine world.

    April 22, 2025  By J.T. Falco
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    The Crime Fiction of Dundee, Scotland: Jute, Jam, and Journalism

    A reading tour through the mysteries of Dundee.

    April 21, 2025  By Paul French
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    The Rise of Scotland Yard in Victorian England

    April J. Skelly on the birth of a Victorian institution.

    April 21, 2025  By April J. Skelly
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    The Wacky Packy Kid: The Forgotten 1970s Sticker Craze Created by Art Spiegelman

    Michael Gonzales recalls the brief heyday of Wacky Packages

    April 18, 2025  By Michael Gonzales
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    Structuring Truth Like Fiction: Building Suspense in Nonfiction Narratives

    'Writing creative non-fiction requires skilled storytelling techniques as well. It’s not enough to give "just the facts, ma’am."'

    April 18, 2025  By Art Bell
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    Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby Turns 100. Time To Admit It’s Crime Fiction.

    Chistopher Chambers makes the case for reading Gatsby as noir

    April 18, 2025  By Christopher Chambers
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    The Cost of a Bullet: A Nashville Story

    Michael Amos Cody on a Music Row murder that resonated across decades.

    April 17, 2025  By Michael Amos Cody
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    “A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time

    Sarah Weinman in Praise of an Innovative and Timeless Work of Detective Fiction

    April 17, 2025  By Sarah Weinman
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    Why Being the Child of a Crime Writer Made It Inevitable I Would Become One

    Abbi Waxman on a childhood of library visits and watching her mother at work.

    April 17, 2025  By Abbi Waxman
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    Why Are All the Fictional Kids Doing Crimes?

    "It’s not often talked about, but criminal activity is kind of a hallmark of YA as a whole"

    April 16, 2025  By C. L. Montblanc
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