• Features

    Resurrecting Edgar Allan Poe While Continuously Disappointing My Mother

    Poe's timeless themes and horrors translate pretty well to a modern YA setting, it turns out.

    April 19, 2021  By Mindy McGinnis
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    How Do You Keep A Long-Running Series Fresh? The Secret Is Character

    C.S. Harris, author of the Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries, on the joys of following characters' lives far beyond the pages of a single book.

    April 19, 2021  By C.S. Harris
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    Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray Were Commissioned at the Same Dinner Party

    On one of literature's most productive hangouts

    April 16, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    On Cowardice and Crime Fiction

    Why do we need our characters to be heroes or villains, when most in real life are somewhere in between?

    April 16, 2021  By Bridget Foley
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    The Complex History of 'Gay Panic' and the 2001 Thriller The Deep End

    The 1947 novel is about protecting a teenage daughter's sexual 'virtue'. The 2001 film changes that character to a gay son, and plays with how his sexuality leads to a domestic panic.

    April 16, 2021  By Matthew John Phillips
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    Confessions of a Librarian and Historical Mystery Novelist

    Plotting murder and historical manipulations in the public library

    April 16, 2021  By Will Thomas
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    April's Best Nonfiction Crime Books

    A new study of Hitchcock's films, the tragic life of an heiress, and a murder at the mission.

    April 16, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    Shop Talk: William Boyle on Writing Crime Novels at 5 AM on a Casino Laptop

    Writers talk craft, coffee, and the all-important writing routine.

    April 15, 2021  By Eli Cranor
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    Why Librarians Are Natural Born Detectives

    Whether you're looking for information about an uncle's will or a homemade poison, the reference desk is the place to go.

    April 15, 2021  By M.E. Hilliard
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    Lawrence P. Jackson, Chester Himes' Biographer, on the Iconic Harlem Detective Series

    "They take no prisoners. There are no heroes. Everybody is exposed for who they are at their least desirable or least beautiful moments."

    April 15, 2021  By Hopeton Hay
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