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Cara Black and Tara Moss Talk Fiction and Fashion

Cara Black and Tara Moss Talk Fiction and Fashion

How does one dress for a chase sequence?

By Cara Black and Tara Moss | June 8, 2022

Collaborating on Crime in the 14th Century

Collaborating on Crime in the 14th Century

"Lawlessness reigned over wide swaths of Europe where civilization had been pushed to the brink..."

By Boyd Morrison and Beth Morrison | May 27, 2022

James Lee Burke on Personal Tragedy, National Trauma, and the Search for Salvation

James Lee Burke on Personal Tragedy, National Trauma, and the Search for Salvation

"The story of Eden, and how it influences my work, is not the story of a snake in a tree, but the story of what we are doing to the tree – what we are doing to the Garden."

By David Masciotra | May 24, 2022

Writing History When the Crime Is Stranger Than Fiction

Writing History When the Crime Is Stranger Than Fiction

When it comes to Soviet espionage and the Alger Hiss episode, fiction has to work hard to keep up with the deceptions.

By David Adams Cleveland | May 17, 2022

10 Reasons Why Victorian England Is the Perfect Setting for Murder

10 Reasons Why Victorian England Is the Perfect Setting for Murder

Pea-soup fog, charlatans, death cults, spiritualists, and so much more!

By Connie Berry | May 12, 2022

My sisters are as intelligent as my brothers: Women’s education in Colonial India

My sisters are as intelligent as my brothers: Women’s education in Colonial India

Harini Nagendra recalls the fierce women in her family history who fought for their right to be educated.

By Harini Nagendra | May 2, 2022

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Victoria Thompson: My Favorite Sleuthing Partners

By Victoria Thompson | April 28, 2022

Anna Lee Huber's Top 10 Female Sleuths in Long-Running Historical Mystery Series

By Anna Lee Huber | April 21, 2022

The Business of Blackmail in Gilded Age New York

By W. H. Flint | April 12, 2022

C. S. Harris on Historical Fiction and Her Iconic Regency-Era Series

C. S. Harris on Historical Fiction and Her Iconic Regency-Era Series

"Every era has free-thinkers, people who don’t subscribe to the prejudices and superstitions of their day."

By Molly Odintz | April 11, 2022

The Literary Greats of Scotland

The Literary Greats of Scotland

Paige Shelton, author of the Scottish Bookshop mysteries, celebrates Scotland's Big Three.

By Paige Shelton | April 11, 2022

For This Historical Novelist Writing About Gilded Age New York, There's Always More Research to Be Done

For This Historical Novelist Writing About Gilded Age New York, There's Always More Research to Be Done

For historical mystery novelists like Stacie Murphy, research is an endless source of inspiration.

By Stacie Murphy | April 8, 2022

Simon Scarrow on The Fog of World War, Then and Now

Simon Scarrow on The Fog of World War, Then and Now

A historical fiction writer considers the lessons of WWII for the present day.

By Simon Scarrow | March 30, 2022

Never Mind the Butler, Worry About the Maids

Never Mind the Butler, Worry About the Maids

On The Difficult and Dangerous Lives of 19th Century Domestic Servants

By Kathleen Marple Kalb | March 28, 2022

How (and Why) I Write Supernatural Historical Fiction

How (and Why) I Write Supernatural Historical Fiction

Brian James Gage on the endless delights of introducing real figures from history to supernatural terrors.

By Brian James Gage | March 24, 2022

What We Can Learn From The Darkest Period in Art History

What We Can Learn From The Darkest Period in Art History

"Between 1933 – 1945, the Third Reich confiscated, destroyed, and plundered upwards of 650,000 works of art."

By Lisa Barr | March 17, 2022

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