• Essays

    The Terrifying Draw of the Desert

    Adam Plantinga on a lifelong fascination with the desert and its dangers.

    April 11, 2025  By Adam Plantinga
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    Constructing a Fictional Serial Killer

    How California's most notorious killers helped inspire Omar Hussain's debut novel.

    April 10, 2025  By Omar Hussain
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    Small Towns and Murder Mysteries: An Enduring Fascination

    Kelly Mullen on Villisca, Iowa and the The Villisca Axe Murders

    April 10, 2025  By Kelly Mullen
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    Three Kinds of Freak: Writing Heroes and Stories that Dismantle the Status Quo

    Zee Carlstrom on writing more interesting characters.

    April 9, 2025  By Zee Carlstrom
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    Molly Harper on Using Romantic Subplots to Help Characters Solve Mysteries

    "I can’t fathom writing a story that doesn’t have some romance element to it."

    April 8, 2025  By Molly Harper
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    Why Tariq Ashkanani Chose to Set His New Novel in America

    "There is freedom in being able to play a little fast and loose with the rules, a recurring motif that I find predominantly in US fiction."

    April 8, 2025  By Tariq Ashkanani
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    Remembering the Bleak, Beautiful Poetry of Ken Bruen's Noir

    Bruen wrote unflinchingly of the darkest parts of society, and his Jack Taylor series was the epitome of noir style.

    April 7, 2025  By Scott Montgomery
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    High Net Worth Victims: Why We Love our Murderees to be Filthy Rich

    "Killing the rich—in literature at least—appears to come with a built-in motive, one that likely implicates us all."

    April 7, 2025  By Matt Plass
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    Murder and “Mitteleuropa” in Agatha Christie

    A survey of Christie's characters hailing from Central Europe.

    April 4, 2025  By Naomi Kaye
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    ‘Weasels Ripped My Flesh’ and Other Men’s Adventure Magazine Legends

    Tales from the world of resurgent interest in those midcentury magazines with outlandish headlines and legions of readers.

    April 4, 2025  By Keith Roysdon
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