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Historical
Mixing Genres Is All About Messing With Structure
"Knowing what people are expecting allows you to subvert the trope. Expectation is its own red herring, built right into your reader."
By
Stuart Turton
| October 22, 2020
7 Great Heist Novels, Recommended By An Art Dealer
Art theft is a big business—and a big inspiration to crime writers.
By
Carol Orange
| October 13, 2020
17 Crime Fiction Series That Use Real Historical Figures As Sleuths
Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Charlotte Brontë, and many more appear as detectives in these historical crime novels.
By
Heather Redmond
| October 9, 2020
Meet Catherine Louisa Pirkis, creator of the 19th century's most progressive lady detective character
Her protagonist, Loveday Brooke, was an anomaly amid the Victorian lady detective literary craze, for many reasons—including simply for having been created by a woman.
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| October 6, 2020
Eight Dazzling Historical Thrillers Featuring Real Life Jewels and Paintings
From jewel heists, to forgers, to treasure hunts, these historical novels are full of beauty—and thrills.
By
Kirsty Manning
| October 6, 2020
On Drawing Inspiration From a Rich History of Ruins
Britons have long had a fascination with ruins. For Anna Lee Huber they're the start of mystery novels.
By
Anna Lee Huber
| October 2, 2020
Best Reviewed
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Romance Writing, Historical Cozies, and Drawing a Thread Between Past and Present
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Callie Hutton
| September 17, 2020
The White House Is Haunted!
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Andrew Pyper
| September 4, 2020
Six Novels That Bring Together Mystery and Time Travel
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Julie McElwain
| August 7, 2020
10 Novels That Use Momentous Events as a Catalyst
Or, how to process 2020 through reading lots of historical fiction.
By
Suzanne Rindell
| July 30, 2020
It's Time for More Period Dramas to Embrace the Diversity of People of Color
Un-Whitewashing the Past
By
Radha Vatsal
| July 27, 2020
Rethinking The American Home Front During World War II
8 mysteries that explore the simmering tensions and contradictions of the war at home.
By
Paul D. Marks
| July 22, 2020
The House on Vesper Sands
Paraic O’Donnell
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CrimeReads Excerpts
| July 15, 2020
Getting to Know My Aunt Through Her Cold War Cookbook
How a comforting family relic gave birth to a new story of espionage, intrigue, and adventure.
By
Celia Rees
| July 6, 2020
Fiction That Will Immerse You in Medicine's Long, Messy Past
Taking a journey through medical history.
By
Lydia Kang
| July 1, 2020
Tiny Mysteries From the Files of the New York Times
Because history is full of the small, the inexplicable, and the downright confounding....
By
W.M. Akers
| June 25, 2020
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