• Essays

    A Crime for All Seasons – Why Cozies Aren’t Just for Fall

    Gretchen Rue on the evergreen delights of the cozy mystery.

    November 6, 2024  By Gretchen Rue
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    Honolulu Noir: A Tsunami of Colonization

    Chris McKinney lays out the noir history of the Hawaiian city.

    November 5, 2024  By Chris McKinney
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    Mothers Who Go to Extremes – And Drive the Action in Crime Fiction

    Maria Kelson on the kinds of mothers who make for great mystery and thrillers.

    November 5, 2024  By Maria Kelson
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    Christina Lynch: Why I Decided to Write a Version of "The Odyssey" From The Perspective of a Horse Solving a Mystery

    Like the ancient hero's quest to find home, Lynch's pony's perambulations are both harrowing and emotionally resonant

    November 5, 2024  By Christina Lynch
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    Victorian Detectives on the Stage!

    Detectives didn't simply take over Victorian fiction... they took over the theater, too

    November 1, 2024  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Looking Back at Heist Film "Quick Change", In Which Bill Murray Plays a Sad, Sad, Clown

    The movie is criminally underrated, and the one-liners? Unparalleled.

    November 1, 2024  By Patrick J. Sauer
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    “Elsbeth” Takes it Cues from Cozy Mysteries 

    The oddball sleuth uses her quirks — and others' low expectations of her — to solve murders 

    November 1, 2024  By Elizabeth Held
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    Los Angeles's Dark, Strange History of Trick-Or-Treat Murders 

    A trip through L.A.'s archives reveals several gruesome killings tied to Halloween.

    October 31, 2024  By James T. Bartlett
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    Georgia Jeffries On Feeling Compelled to Write About Her Aunt's Murder

    Aldine Younger was murdered in 1933. Her killer escaped justice, and her family remains haunted by the case.

    October 31, 2024  By Georgia Jeffries
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    A Life Steeped in Forensic Science

    Jennifer Graeser Dornbush lays out the science behind the fiction and explains what really happens to a body when it's frozen.

    October 31, 2024  By Jennifer Graeser Dornbush
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