• Essays

    How to Gracefully Subject Your Detectives to the Vicissitudes of Time

    "A series in which the protagonist ages with the years becomes in effect a long novel, the record of a life..."

    November 5, 2020  By Dominic Martell
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    Erskine Childers: Gentleman, Spy Novelist, and Gunrunner for the IRA

    How did the aristocratic author of English’s first great spy novel end up dead in the Irish Civil War?

    November 4, 2020  By H.B. Lyle
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    How the Discovery of a Rare Pink Diamond Led One Reporter into the World of Thrillers

    Matthew Hart wrote about diamonds and gold. One day, he got the call from Brazil—an 81-carater came out of the river.

    November 3, 2020  By Matthew Hart
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    A Few Thoughts and Speculations on the State of Irish Crime Fiction

    John Connolly on the current generation of Irish crime novelists and crime readers.

    November 3, 2020  By John Connolly
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    In a Pandemic World, We're All Engaging in Speculative Fiction

    Fiction writers have long tried to figure out how the world, and our relationship to it, might change after cataclysm.

    November 3, 2020  By Ariel S. Winter
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    The "Educated" Crime Novels of Cambridge

    In a city dominated by a famous university, students, professors, and the occasional vicar supply the mysteries.

    November 2, 2020  By Paul French
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    How a Peaceful Morning on the Lake Becomes a Murder Mystery

    Every year, Lake of the Ozarks sees an influx of millions and a flood of cash. Of course there's going to be crime.

    November 2, 2020  By W.L. Ripley
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    All the Famous Writers Who Have Reportedly Come Back as Ghosts

    Ghost writers, not ghostwriters.

    October 30, 2020  By CrimeReads 
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    Arsenic and Old Lace, Frank Capra's "Halloween Tale of Brooklyn," Is the perfect film for the season

    It has everything: serial killers, dead bodies, Peter Lorre, and a psychotic convict hiding out after an unfortunate plastic surgery accident that makes him look like Frankenstein's monster.

    October 29, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    My First Thriller: Scott Turow

    For eight years, he wrote in thirty minute bursts on a commuter train. Then, he had himself a blockbuster novel.

    October 29, 2020  By Rick Pullen
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