• Mystery

    Crime in a Tenured Position:
    The Feminist Mysteries of Carolyn Heilbrun

    As Amanda Cross, Carolyn Heilbrun used her Kate Fansler series to explore academia, politics, and modern womanhood.

    June 17, 2020  By Marlowe Benn
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    How the Flavia de Luce Series Investigates the Traditional English Village Murder Mystery

    On death, preservation, genius, detectives, villages, and eighteenth-century graveyard poems

    June 16, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery

    Rosalie Knecht

    "The morning after Jane left me, I woke in a Russian diner that overlooked the boardwalk at Brighton Beach, sitting upright in the corner of a booth."

    June 16, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Mostly Forgotten Irish Crime Novelist at the Center of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

    On the enormously influential works of a Golden Age innovator.

    June 15, 2020  By Shane Mawe
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    We're on a Mission to Help You Parse Through All the Crime Books with 'Girl' in the Title

    The third installment of The Great Disambiguation Project

    June 15, 2020  By Lisa Levy
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    Growing Up In a Small Town, Books Opened My World

    How fiction helped me learn about the world beyond my small mining town—and gave me a new understanding of my home.

    June 12, 2020  By J.A. Jance
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    Seven Thrillers About Identity and Reinvention

    Can you truly know the people in your life? Or yourself?

    June 10, 2020  By Catherine McKenzie
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    Lillie Langtry and the 19th Century's Gentlewomen Influencers

    On the rise of the "Professional Beauty"

    June 10, 2020  By Laurie R. King
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    Should Your Crime Novel Be Set in a Real Place or a Fictional One?

    Over the course of crime fiction history, authors have always wrestled with questions of setting.

    June 10, 2020  By Angela Marsons
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    Into the Deep: Six Novels That Prove Lakes Are the Perfect Setting for a Murder Mystery

    "I’ve spent enough time puttering across their waters or sunning on their docks to know what lurks underneath."

    June 9, 2020  By Kimberly Belle
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