• Essays

    Never Too Old for Murder: Why an Elderly Woman Character Is the Perfect Serial Killer

    Samantha Downing on Using Ageism and Gendered Assumptions to Hide in Plain Sight

    August 12, 2025  By Samantha Downing
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    "I’m looking for a good place to kill someone": Katarina Bivald on Setting Her Book's Murder

    The Author of "Just Another Dead Author" Wanders the Silk Weaver Quarters and Fishbone Tunnels of Lyon

    August 12, 2025  By Katarina Bivald
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    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.

    August 8, 2025  By Victor Suthammanont
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    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."

    August 8, 2025  By Rachel Eve Moulton
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    Virginia Trench: Elizabeth Holmes Inspired My Debut—But Not In The Way You Think

    On bad blood, feminist thrillers, and the Holmes Effect

    August 8, 2025  By Virginia Trench
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    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

    August 7, 2025  By Alex Pavesi
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    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

    August 7, 2025  By Matthew Coleman Turbeville
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    "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

    August 6, 2025  By Rhys Bowen
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    As Seen on TV: Your Guide to Oregon-centric Films and Books

    Emmeline Duncan tours the many filming locations of the woodsy state

    August 5, 2025  By Emmeline Duncan
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    A Port for the Stranded and Criminal: A Look at the Exciting Hamburg Noir Scene Today

    Jan Karsten's Introduction to a New Anthology of German Mystery Stories

    August 5, 2025  By Jan Karsten
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