• Features

    America’s Obsession with Asylums

    Or, How Visiting an Abandoned Lunatic Asylum Laid the Foundation for a Young Adult Novel

    October 10, 2023  By Tracy Hewitt Meyer
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    Writing Influences: A Cuban-Miami Identity & the Periphery of Santeria

    "I wanted to explore different ways this inherited power could be both a burden and a gift, and how often our diasporic heritage is built on silence."

    October 10, 2023  By Vanessa Montalban
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

    New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    October 9, 2023  By CrimeReads 
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    Learning to Love Thrillers and Their Morally Compromised Characters

    Tim Lane was a stay-at-home dad who found he needed thrillers about people pushed to extremes.

    October 9, 2023  By Tim Lane
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    The LAPD Films of Ron Shelton, Twenty Years Later

    Dark Blue and Hollywood Homicide were unfairly dismissed by audiences and critics. They deserved better.

    October 6, 2023  By Vince Keenan
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    The Backlist: Revisiting Steve Hamilton’s 'The Lock Artist' with Elle Cosimano

    Polly Stewart is in discussion with today's top crime writers, returning to some of their favorite books.

    October 6, 2023  By Polly Stewart
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    Jesse Q. Sutanto on Toxic Friendships, Shrinking Attention Spans, and Finding the Muse

    "My characters are very well-behaved because they know I won't hesitate to kill them if they dare stray from the outline."

    October 6, 2023  By Molly Odintz
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    The Four Corners of Subjectivity

    How do crime writers get readers to "care about" characters who do terrible things?

    October 6, 2023  By Jake Lamar
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    Following Agatha Christie’s Footsteps in Torquay

    Kavitha Rao on the unique pleasures of attending the International Agatha Christie Festival

    October 5, 2023  By Kavitha Rao
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    Shop Talk: Lou Berney Is a Fanatical Believer in Naps

    Crime writers discuss ritual, craft, and learning that there's no one way to finish a novel.

    October 5, 2023  By Eli Cranor
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