• Essays

    How Do You Write an Isolation Thriller When Everyone Is Connected All of the Time?

    A classic thriller trope may be on its way to retirement.

    January 29, 2021  By Zoje Stage
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    My First Thriller: Randy Wayne White

    How he went from guiding fishing clients to writing magazine columns to creating Doc Ford and a bestselling series of novels.

    January 28, 2021  By Rick Pullen
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    On the Art of the Plot Twist

    "Psycho" and "Les Diaboliques" shocked audiences with their unpredictable revelations. What made them so effective?

    January 28, 2021  By Milan Terlunen
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    What You May Not Know About Your Father, The Spy

    In 1951, Paul Vidich's family took a trip to the former Yugoslavia. Seventy years later, he asks whether his father was there spying.

    January 27, 2021  By Paul Vidich
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    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Murder: A Roadside Killing and The Novel That Captured an Era

    On Nevada’s 1940 "One-Cent Hitchhiker Slaying"

    January 27, 2021  By Curtis Evans
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    John le Carré Offered a Piece of Advice to a Struggling Novelist. She'll Never Forget It.

    When Kate Weinberg met David Cornwell, she was determined not to mention to him the crime novel she was struggling to plot.

    January 26, 2021  By Kate Weinberg
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    Murder and Justice in the Last Days of the Canadian Frontier

    How an 1893 murder and subsequent trials in British Columbia revealed a legal system in a state of change.

    January 25, 2021  By Chad Reimer
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    Dark Minds: How Crime Fiction Reveals the True Nature of Sociopaths

    Charming, fearless, and manipulative sociopaths have always been with us, in fiction and in reality.

    January 25, 2021  By Joanna Schaffhausen
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    Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

    In 1965, a pair of radical bohemian journalists invented Scandinavian Noir and reimagined what crime fiction could do.

    January 22, 2021  By Neil Nyren
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    That time Sherlock Holmes appeared in an Arsène Lupin story as "Herlock Sholmès"

    When author Maurice Leblanc tried to write the great English detective into his latest Arsène Lupin story, Arthur Conan Doyle protested. Fortunately, Leblanc found a solution.

    January 22, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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