• Historical

    Jacqueline Winspear: How I Became A Mystery Writer While Breaking Every Rule

    The author of the iconic Maisie Dobbs series remembers her early days as an author and questions the nature of genre.

    March 23, 2021  By Jacqueline Winspear
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    Forever Trespassing Into History: An Author's Reflections on Retelling Historical Episodes as Fiction

    In 1900, three lighthouse keepers disappeared from a post in the Outer Hebrides. It was a story Emma Stonex needed to tell.

    March 16, 2021  By Emma Stonex
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    Napoleon Has Always Fascinated Novelists, But His Life Really Was Fit for a Thriller

    On the art of using real historical figures—and wild events—to craft thrilling narratives for readers.

    March 5, 2021  By Loren D. Estleman
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    Six Historical Scandals and the Novels That Bring Them To Life

    From Ancient Spartan Queens, to Jazz-Age Showgirls, History and Literature are Full of Scandalous Tales

    March 4, 2021  By Deanna Raybourn
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    Who Are You Going to Call: Rethinking the Role of Police in Mysteries

    Nicole Glover wanted to write a mystery where nobody felt comfortable calling police, and tidy resolutions were hard to find.

    March 2, 2021  By Nicole Glover
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    Estranged

    Charles Lamar Phillips

    "Kid Guthrie—I’m sorry, Andrew Guthrie—my pint-sized young protégé at the paper and I went to the memorial auditorium for Larry McKnight’s speech in November."

    February 19, 2021  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Author, Pirate, Poet, Spy: The Secret Criminals of Classic Literature

    Those authors you were forced to read in high school? Some of them dabbled in counterfeiting and piracy, too.

    February 9, 2021  By Allison Epstein
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    25+ New Releases from Black Authors to Keep You Reading All Year Long

    From cozy mysteries to hardboiled crime to international thrillers to domestic suspense, the contributions of Black authors to crime fiction as as varied as the genre itself.

    February 4, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    Orson Welles, Lucille Ball, and The Greatest Thriller That Never Was

    It was supposed to be one of the great confluences of talent in Hollywood history. So what happened to The Smiler with the Knife?

    February 3, 2021  By Vince Keenan
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    So, who is Arsène Lupin, anyway?

    Everything you need to know about turn-of-the-century-France's beloved, detection-prone gentleman thief

    January 22, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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