• Essays

    Killings Most Quaint: Lucy Burdette on Why Small Towns Make Irresistible Mystery Settings

    A Look at the Fictional Locales in Work by Julia Spencer-Fleming, Jenn McKinlay, and Others

    August 14, 2025  By Lucy Burdette
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    Napster, Blair Witch, Cubicle Chaos: The Early Internet Relics in Jimmy Juliano's New Novel

    The Author of "13 Months Haunted" Remembers the Tech, Vids, and Tricks of the 2000s

    August 13, 2025  By Jimmy Juliano
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    Salvage Buds: Four Sci-Fi and Mystery Sleuths Who Would Get Along With Travis McGee

    Tim Chawaga Imagines Cross-Literary Bonds in Work by Carl Hiaasen, Walter Mosley, and More

    August 13, 2025  By Tim Chawaga
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    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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