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Justice, Appearances, and Reality: Victor Suthammanont On Crafting a Legal Thriller With No Easy Resolution

Justice, Appearances, and Reality: Victor Suthammanont On Crafting a Legal Thriller With No Easy Resolution

Crime fiction is neat. Real life is messy. And the best novels hit somewhere in between.

By Victor Suthammanont | August 8, 2025

Teaching Daughters to Bite Back—Female Violence as Power in Horror

Teaching Daughters to Bite Back—Female Violence as Power in Horror

"Modern-day horror gives women dimension in a way that we’ve been denied."

By Rachel Eve Moulton | August 8, 2025

Virginia Trench: Elizabeth Holmes Inspired My Debut—But Not In The Way You Think

Virginia Trench: Elizabeth Holmes Inspired My Debut—But Not In The Way You Think

On bad blood, feminist thrillers, and the Holmes Effect

By Virginia Trench | August 8, 2025

Alex Pavesi on the Uncanny Practicality of Setting Crime Novels in the Recent Past

Alex Pavesi on the Uncanny Practicality of Setting Crime Novels in the Recent Past

The Author of "Ink Ribbon Red" Evokes the Dreamlike Unreality of Life in the 1990s

By Alex Pavesi | August 7, 2025

Joyce Carol Oates on True Crime, Genre, and Writing an Experimental Mystery Novel

Joyce Carol Oates on True Crime, Genre, and Writing an Experimental Mystery Novel

Matthew Turbeville Chats with the Prolific Author about Her New Book "Fox" and More

By Matthew Coleman Turbeville | August 7, 2025

"Any good story is a mystery": Rhys Bowen on Creating Tension in Historical Fiction

Letting Readers Search for the Narrative Body That May or May Not Be There

By Rhys Bowen | August 6, 2025

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A Port for the Stranded and Criminal: A Look at the Exciting Hamburg Noir Scene Today

By Jan Karsten | August 5, 2025

Mojo Metropolis: On Touré’s Soul City Adventures

By Michael Gonzales | August 4, 2025

The Little Known Noir of Timor-Leste

The Little Known Noir of Timor-Leste

Crime and the City makes the case for reading more crime fiction set in Timor-Leste.

By Paul French | August 4, 2025

All the <em>Mission: Impossible</em> Movies, Ranked

All the Mission: Impossible Movies, Ranked

Olivia Rutigliano muses on the world's most fascinating action franchise

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 1, 2025

"I Do"...Plan the Perfect Crime: Seven Cozy Mysteries That Revolve Around Weddings

Valerie (V.M.) Burns Says "Yes" to Capers from Catherine Bruns, Isis Crawford, Lee Hollis, and Others

By V. M. Burns | August 1, 2025

Megan Miranda On Life Imitating Art Imitating Life

Megan Miranda On Life Imitating Art Imitating Life

Or: Why you shouldn’t always write what you know

By Megan Miranda | August 1, 2025

Fast Times as a TV Sitcom Writer

Fast Times as a TV Sitcom Writer

Ellen Byron on failed pilots, writing for stars, and development hell

By Ellen Byron | July 31, 2025

Jordan Harper on the Bittersweetness of Adapting His Own Novel into a Hollywood Film

Jordan Harper on the Bittersweetness of Adapting His Own Novel into a Hollywood Film

Nick Kolakowski chats with the author and screenwriter about "She Rides Shotgun" and what authors have to give up for the big screen

By Nick Kolakowski | July 31, 2025

A Magician's Contract Between Reader and Writer: Rules for Delivering a Whodunit

A Magician's Contract Between Reader and Writer: Rules for Delivering a Whodunit

Hazell Ward on S.S. Van Dine, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd," and Playing with Audience Expectations

By Hazell Ward | July 30, 2025

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