• Essays

    The Perils of the Work Trip—and Why It’s Thriller Gold

    Lexie Elliott on taking her characters "somewhere unfamiliar and unnerving, somewhere they couldn’t easily escape from."

    February 13, 2023  By Lexie Elliott
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    Charles Addams Drew the Credits for Murder By Death

    The Neil Simon murder mystery movie has a beautifully-illustrated opening. (The rest of the movie has issues.)

    February 10, 2023  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    The Many Levels of Mystery: ‘Whodunnit?’ to ‘Whydunnit?’ and Beyond

    "There is mystery and then there is Mystery."

    February 10, 2023  By Daniel Taylor
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    Sympathy for the Specter

    Or, why ghosts should inspire more pity than fear.

    February 9, 2023  By Johnny Compton
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    How Writing a Genderfluid Mystery Helped Me Understand Myself as Genderqueer

    "It took a fictional character in a novel to allow a real part of myself to live and breathe."

    February 9, 2023  By Jennifer Savran Kelly
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    How Writing about Immigration Helped Me Find Home

    "it took the writing of an immigration thriller for me to accept my otherness."

    February 8, 2023  By Roxana Arama
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    The Accidental Culinary Cozy Author

    "[D]escribing Cajun cuisine in my Cajun Country Mystery series made me hungry and I thought it might have the same effect on readers..."

    February 8, 2023  By Ellen Byron
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    Harry Dean Stanton is the Hero of Every Noir

    Or, a brief taxonomy of a very strange oeuvre.

    February 6, 2023  By J. D. O'Brien
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    São Paulo: City of Extremes

    Crime and the City visits the Brazilian megalopolis in search of good books.

    February 6, 2023  By Paul French
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    The Novelist As Method Actor

    Or, how to get to know your characters inside and out.

    February 6, 2023  By M. J. Rose
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