• Features

    Under Your Skin: The Horror of the Inexplicable

    "it’s the off-kilter portrayal of the mundane, where reality comes unstitched in a vaguely sickening way, that really gets under your fingernails..."

    October 15, 2021  By Andy Marino
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    Shop Talk: S.A. Cosby Is Late to This Interview and It's Because of Some Dead Bodies

    Crime writers talking writing routines, putting in the work, and what to do when you get a call in the middle of the night about some bodies.

    October 14, 2021  By Eli Cranor
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    Mysterious and Haunted New York City

    Kate Belli on the city's haunted locations and the authors inspired by them.

    October 14, 2021  By Kate Belli
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    Steph Cha On Editing The Best American Mystery Series During An Unprecedented Year

    "2020 was full of desperation and injustice and crime, and if mystery writers are paying attention (and I know we are) it should have a transformative effect on the genre."

    October 14, 2021  By Steph Cha
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    Tony Hillerman and the Invention of Jim Chee

    Joe Leaphorn, older and sophisticated, needed a new foil—one younger, more interested in tradition, and more inquisitive.

    October 14, 2021  By James McGrath Morris
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    High-Tech Skullduggery in the Regency Era

    A historical mystery writer considers intrigue, patent wars, and corporate espionage at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

    October 14, 2021  By Andrea Penrose
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    That Gothic Feeling: 11 Masterpieces of Romantic Suspense

    Greg Herren on 20th century gothic fiction and the novels that made him fall in love with a genre.

    October 13, 2021  By Greg Herren
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    Fictional Detectives, Real Hobbies: Appreciating the Leisure Activities of Fiction's Greatest Sleuths

    Even Sherlock needs to unwind sometimes...

    October 13, 2021  By Jethro K. Lieberman
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    Five Great Mystery Novels Set at Carnivals and Fairs

    Sinister opportunities abound where innocence—and its loss—collide

    October 13, 2021  By M.E. Browning
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    Writing Consent in YA: Empowerment Through Storytelling

    Young adult fiction can help survivors and victims find emotional validation—and remind them they are not alone.

    October 13, 2021  By Sara Walters
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