• Essays

    Exploring the Isolation of the British Countryside

    Remote settings provide extraordinary possibilities for both beauty and brutality

    January 9, 2024  By Stig Abell
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    How An Obsession With Art Crime Became a Thriller

    Artist and author Jonathan Santlofer on the many works examining art fraud, theft, and looting that informed his new book

    January 9, 2024  By Jonathan Santlofer
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    Passionate Distortions: Patricia Highsmith and the Female Protagonist

    Katia Lief on channeling Highsmith's powerful, repulsive character studies for a new era

    January 9, 2024  By Katia Lief
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    Crime and the City: Kinshasa and the DRC

    A look at crime fiction set in and around Africa's most populous city.

    January 8, 2024  By Paul French
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    Ian Hamilton On The Joys and Sorrows of Finishing a Series

    After 19 books, taking a moment to contemplate "how it began, and how it somehow made it as far as it did."

    January 8, 2024  By Ian Hamilton
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    How an Epic History of the Mafia Came out of a Chance Meeting with a Literary Legend

    Louis Ferrante recalls the meeting with Lord George Weidenfeld that led to a seven-year writing project, resulting in the first ever trilogy about the rise and decline of the American Mafia.

    January 5, 2024  By Louis Ferrante
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    Was 'The Leopard Man' Hollywood's First Slasher Film?

    How Cornell Woolrich's formally innovative serial killer novel 'Black Alibi' was adapted for the screen.

    January 4, 2024  By Scott Adlerberg
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    Running Away with the Fairies

    Tara Isabella Burton on using fairyland as a metaphor for cults and their ecstatic escape from reality

    January 4, 2024  By Tara Isabella Burton
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    Cozy Mystery Subgenres: Making the Perfect Blend

    Mixing it up with historical, paranormal, and romantic cozies

    January 4, 2024  By Patricia Sargeant, writing as Olivia Matthews 
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    The Importance of the Plot Twist

    Heidi Perks on when and how to reveal the twists that will keep readers guessing throughout your novel.

    January 3, 2024  By Heidi Perks
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