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Kellye Garrett and Alex Segura: Two Authors Look Back on a Year of Literary Firsts

Kellye Garrett and Alex Segura: Two Authors Look Back on a Year of Literary Firsts

Garrett and Segura discuss new paperbacks, the year in mystery, and what's in store for the industry.

By Alex Segura | February 8, 2023

How Writing about Immigration Helped Me Find Home

How Writing about Immigration Helped Me Find Home

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

By Roxana Arama | February 8, 2023

The Accidental Culinary Cozy Author

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..."

By Ellen Byron | February 8, 2023

On the 1968 Film Which Introduced the Trope of the

On the 1968 Film Which Introduced the Trope of the "Black Guy Dies First"

Spider Baby helped introduce the modern horror concept of the Black character existing solely to die"">"Spider Baby helped introduce the modern horror concept of the Black character existing solely to die"

By Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris | February 7, 2023

The Great, Always Bizarre Florida Crime Fiction Tradition

The Great, Always Bizarre Florida Crime Fiction Tradition

What other state has produced so many good novels about crime and corruption?

By Mike Lawson | February 7, 2023

The Launch of a 19th Century Sex-Cult in Upstate New York

The Launch of a 19th Century Sex-Cult in Upstate New York

John Humphrey Noyes was a reserved, shy young man – until he found religion and his own utopian, free-love, open marriage cult.

By Susan Wels | February 7, 2023

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Thrillers Set in Stunning Locales

By Lyn Liao Butler | February 7, 2023

Harry Dean Stanton is the Hero of Every Noir

By J. D. O'Brien | February 6, 2023

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads | February 6, 2023

São Paulo: City of Extremes

São Paulo: City of Extremes

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

By Paul French | February 6, 2023

The Novelist As Method Actor

The Novelist As Method Actor

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

By M. J. Rose | February 6, 2023

The Lure of Government Secrets and Treasures

The Lure of Government Secrets and Treasures

Or, on declassified intelligence and the questions we'll never answer.

By Chad Boudreaux | February 3, 2023

Marcia Muller: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

Marcia Muller: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

A guide to the life and work of "the founding mother" of the hardboiled woman as private eye.

By Neil Nyren | February 3, 2023

“They just weren’t the kind of people for that”: The 1934 Smith Family Massacre in Demopolis, Alabama

“They just weren’t the kind of people for that”: The 1934 Smith Family Massacre in Demopolis, Alabama

On "an appalling family tragedy" that reappeared in a 1944 detective novel.

By Curtis Evans | February 3, 2023

On Writing While Dying

On Writing While Dying

Steven Womack on continuing his mystery series in the midst of devastating news and endless medical treatments.

By Steven Womack | February 2, 2023

Capturing the Voice—and Honesty—of Adolescence

Capturing the Voice—and Honesty—of Adolescence

Young narrators are the witnesses who speak the truth in American literature.

By Sterling Watson | February 2, 2023

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