• Features

    Meet Thomas Byrnes, Gilded Age New York's Performative, Corrupt Police Detective

    He staged elaborate scenes to extract confessions, presented prisoners to police in a "parade," and invented the "Rogues' Gallery"

    August 15, 2024  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Green Mountain Mysteries: A Taxonomy of Vermont Noir

    Sarah Stewart Taylor considers the many fictional horrors and murders of her beloved home state

    August 15, 2024  By Sarah Stewart Taylor
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    Peace, Love, and Understanding: Inside the Woodstock's "Peace Force"

    Marcy McCreary talks with Nick Chiarkas, one of the off-duty cops who helped keep the peace during the three day festival

    August 15, 2024  By Marcy McCreary
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    Stella Sands on Solving Crimes and Diagramming Sentences

    The author of 'Wordhunter' discusses her love of language and mystery.

    August 15, 2024  By Peter Handel
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    A Feast for the Senses: Books That Wine and Dine

    Laurie Elizabeth Flynn on novels that feed the mind.

    August 15, 2024  By Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
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    The Trope of the “Crazy” Female Protagonist

    These women may be labeled mad, but they are responding quite logically to the limits and dangers of their circumstances

    August 14, 2024  By Caroline Wolff
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    Oh Mother! Mothers in Horror and the Horror They Represent

    Leslie J. Anderson considers the literature of scary kids, scarier mothers, and the terrifying project of raising a child

    August 14, 2024  By Leslie J. Anderson
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    Crime Fiction Must Not Ignore Computer Crime

    "The internet is now ubiquitous in our lives, so why does it appear so rarely in popular literature?"

    August 14, 2024  By Stephen Harrison
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    Genre Primeval: How the Western Evolved into the Crime Novel

    Snowden Wright on Elmore Leonard and the evolution of an American icon.

    August 13, 2024  By Snowden Wright
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    Uncovering One of the Biggest (and Strangest) Frauds in Mississippi History

    State auditor Shad White found himself at the epicenter of an investigation into a shocking theft. Then things got weird...

    August 13, 2024  By Shad White
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