• Essays

    How Controlling and Coercive Behavior can lead to Murder

    "Often the behavior creeps up on a victim over time, such that they aren’t even aware they are being abused."

    October 21, 2025  By Felix Francis
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    Lost Literature: On "Picket Line," Elmore Leonard's Remarkable, Long-Unpublished Novella

    C.M. Kushins Explores a Style-defining Political Project from a Western Crime Legend

    October 20, 2025  By C.M. Kushins
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    Mysteries Abroad: Sixteen Cozy Novels that Feature Travel and International Intrigue

    Lucy Connelly Offers Readers a Literary Travel Itinerary

    October 17, 2025  By Lucy Connelly
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    Quaint Kills: Martha Waters on Creating the Quintessential Murder Village in Cozy Mysteries

    The Author of "And Then There Was the One" on Why the Village Setting Works So Well in Cozies

    October 16, 2025  By Martha Waters
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    Chris Kraus on How Crime Writing Can Be an Entry To a Shattered Community

    The Author of “The Four Spent the Day Together” on Researching the Nagamo Trail Murder

    October 16, 2025  By Chris Kraus
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    Why Romance and Horror Make a Happily Ever After

    "Horror raises the stakes while romance deepens the meaning"

    October 15, 2025  By Trilina Pucci
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    Hannah Beer On The Costs and Consequences of Celebrity Culture

    "[O]nce you have everything, what—or who—are you willing to sacrifice to maintain it?"

    October 14, 2025  By Hannah Beer
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    What Fictional Violence Teaches Us About the Real Thing (and Vice Versa)

    After experiencing a brutal attack by a complete stranger, Jennifer Fawcett had to rethink everything she knew about writing violence

    October 9, 2025  By Jennifer Fawcett
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    Daniel H. Wilson On The Colonialist Fallacies Undergirding Our Failed Search for Alien Life

    "[S]ustainability and locality are the hallmarks of intelligence. So why are we looking for worlds on fire?"

    October 8, 2025  By Daniel H. Wilson
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    The Enduring Appeal of a Shipwreck Mystery

    Anbara Salam on the HMS Terror, arctic voyages, and writing a novel about exploring the depths

    October 8, 2025  By Anbara Salam
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