• Essays

    Grappling with PTSD
    in Crime Fiction

    Forget the PTSD-fueled psychotic killer of pop culture lore. Crime novels are capable of a far more complex treatment.

    July 11, 2019  By Hilary Davidson
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    Hannibal Lecter: 20 Years Later

    The last Hannibal Lecter book was a publishing phenomenon like no other—it left a long, strange legacy.

    July 10, 2019  By Patrick J. Sauer
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    Stuntwoman, Armorer, and...Crime Writer?

    Five ways my background as a stuntwoman and armorer helped me become a crime writer (and one way it didn't).

    July 10, 2019  By S. L. Huang
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    Silence, Suffering, and Abuse in Affluent Communities

    Domestic violence is underreported among the wealthy. But that doesn't mean abuse isn't still happening behind closed doors.

    July 9, 2019  By Cate Holahan
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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #48

    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

    July 9, 2019  By Otto Penzler
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    It's Time for Urban Fiction to Get Some Literary Respect

    Other genres have gone mainstream. Why does the publishing world offer up the same old excuses about urban fiction?

    July 8, 2019  By Aya de Leon
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    The Wicked Women of 19th Century Fiction

    On the archetypes of female villainy, from “Women on-the-Make” to “Spiteful Shrews and Harridans.”

    July 8, 2019  By Laura L. Sullivan
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    The Greatest Moral Compromises in Crime Fiction

    Celebrating the literature of slippery relationships, villainous allies, and morally dubious life decisions.

    July 8, 2019  By Carl Vonderau
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    The Most Terrifying Buildings in Literature

    Forget haunted houses—apartments and hotels can be creepy, too.

    July 3, 2019  By Riley Sager
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    Gritty Old New York Movies: My Home Bittersweet Home

    The streets were dirty, crime was up, and the culture was alive.

    July 2, 2019  By David Gordon
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