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Eight Books Exploring Real Life Crimes in Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction
Or, in search of understanding why ordinary people do terrible things
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Megan Cooley Peterson
| March 1, 2024
Thomas Mullen On Writing About Historical Conspiracy Theories in a Post-Truth Age
"[W]e’ve gotten used to the common refrain that we live in “unprecedented times.” But... pretty much nothing is unprecedented."
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Thomas Mullen
| February 29, 2024
Which Jane Austen Protagonists Would Make the Best Detectives?
Ranking Austen's heroines from to worst to best based on their skills of deduction
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Jessica Bull
| February 27, 2024
15 New and Upcoming Historical Mysteries and Thrillers To Read in 2024
Swashbucklers, Spiritualists, and Swindlers Galore
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Molly Odintz
| February 23, 2024
6 Books That Draw Inspiration from Folk Tales
Amanda Jayatissa on the power of modern retellings rooted in ancient stories
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Amanda Jayatissa
| February 22, 2024
Fairy Tales Have Always Been Dark – Really Dark
Samantha Larsen on the macabre origins of these little tales of morality and caution.
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Samantha Larsen
| February 20, 2024
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| February 14, 2024
On the All-Female Shoplifting Gang Who Reigned Supreme in Turn-of-the-Century London
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Heather Webb
| February 12, 2024
Laurie R. King: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
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Neil Nyren
| February 8, 2024
Killing Your Characters Is Traumatic: And It Should Be
“You will have to do it over and over again, and it will never, ever become less fraught. In fact, it shouldn’t.”
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Karen Outen
| February 7, 2024
The Delightful Encounters of Historical Crime Fiction
On the joys of having your fictional hero interact with real people
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H.B. Lyle
| February 2, 2024
Older Women Make the Best Sleuths and Spies (And Criminals)
When we age into invisibility, we can get away with anything...
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CJ Wray
| January 31, 2024
Haute Couture and High Misogyny: The Bad Guys of 1970s Fashion
"It wasn’t just hard, but almost impossible, to be a woman in fashion at this time."
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Natasha Lester
| January 30, 2024
Inviting Nature Onto The Page
The natural world should be a dynamic character, not a stagnant backdrop
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Eliot Pattison
| January 29, 2024
Weirding the West: Strange Tales That Complicate the Picture of Texas
Elizabeth Gonzalez James on the weird, wild literature of her home state.
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Elizabeth Gonzalez James
| January 23, 2024
Death of a Novelist
The 1911 Murder That Changed New York Gun Laws
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Mariah Fredericks
| January 23, 2024
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