• Features

    What's the Key to Multi-POV? Many Colorful Index Cards

    Graphs, charts, and other great ways to keep track of all your characters and their arcs.

    July 28, 2022  By B. A. Shapiro
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    On The Comforts, and Limits, of Disaster Preparedness

    "You can prep all you want and have fun doing it. But it’s impossible to prepare for the worst. The worst has too many faces."

    July 28, 2022  By Brooke Beyfuss
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    Never Alone: On Visitors from the Past

    "I realize now that if almost anyone else had experienced a levitation as I had, they would have sprinted for the door..."

    July 28, 2022  By Penny Goetjen
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    The Outsider Journalist: The Story Behind a 70 Year Old Cold Case Murder and the Push for Alaska's Statehood

    Decades after the murder of Cecil Wells, journalist James Bartlett goes to Alaska looking for new answers.

    July 27, 2022  By James T. Bartlett
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    The Role of Small Town Gossip in Domestic Suspense

    Liz Alterman on whispers, rumors, and thrillers

    July 27, 2022  By Liz Alterman
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    Some Things in Anthony Bourdain's Trip to Taipei Made No Sense

    Almost a decade after the episode aired, author Ed Lin still finds himself thinking about Bourdain's trip to Taiwan.

    July 27, 2022  By Ed Lin
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    August, 1896: A Heat Wave Spawns a Crime Wave in Gilded Age New York

    "[V]iolent crimes such as murder and assaults spike in hot weather, and the hotter the weather the worse the crime..."

    July 27, 2022  By W. H. Flint
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    Megan Miranda on Small Towns, Dark Tourism, and the Art of Slow-Burn Tension

    "I try to see the tension within every relationship or situation."

    July 26, 2022  By Molly Odintz
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    10 Underappreciated American Neo-Noirs of the Early 1970s 

    Andrew Nette on the birth of neo-noir and the films that deserve to come out from the shadow of the period's iconic masterpieces.

    July 26, 2022  By Andrew Nette
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    The Search for the Funniest Crime Novel Ever Written

    Elmore Leonard, Donald E. Westlake, Patricia Highsmith (wait, Patricia Highsmith...?)—they can all make a claim for the title of funniest crime novelist. So how to choose a winner?

    July 26, 2022  By Dwyer Murphy
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