• Essays

    Social Media Fakeness Is Bad for Our Psyches...But Great for Crime Writers

    Between the curated and the real, thriller authors find gold.

    March 24, 2020  By Andrea Bartz
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    The Crime Novels of Bogotá

    Colombia's capital city has seen decades of trauma. It has also produced some of fiction's most powerful stories.

    March 23, 2020  By Paul French
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    Our Obsession with Beautiful Dead Girls Is Keeping Us from Addressing Domestic Violence

    Why do we crave stories of violence, yet turn our faces from the reality of that violence?

    March 23, 2020  By Jessica Moor
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    Why Journalists Have Such a Hard Time Writing About Themselves

    And why turning to fiction is the solution for many.

    March 23, 2020  By Christi Daugherty
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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 24

    The Killers (1946)

    March 23, 2020  By Otto Penzler
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    The Tools of Abuse: Why Technology Deserves a Place at the Heart of Modern Crime Narratives

    How abusers use phones and other devices to control their victims.

    March 20, 2020  By Gytha Lodge
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    Carolyn Wells, in the Library, with a Revolver

    How a prolific mystery author with a penchant for collecting rare books helped to create the ‘biblio-mystery’ genre

    March 19, 2020  By Rebecca Rego Barry
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    Lindy Chamberlain, Kate McCann, and the Myth of the Bad Mother

    Why are we so inclined to believe the worst of women who don't conform to our ideal of grief?

    March 18, 2020  By Kirsten Alexander
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    How to Write Perfect Twist Endings (That Will Shock and Delight Even Jaded Suspense Readers)

    Author Stephanie Wrobel breaks down the 9 type of twist endings and the books that executed them best.

    March 18, 2020  By Stephanie Wrobel
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    In the Emergency Room, Doctors Need Detective Skills—And Empathy

    Why Chris Bohjalian went looking for inspiration in the ER

    March 17, 2020  By Chris Bohjalian
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