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Top Ten Thrillers to Put You Off Traveling

Top Ten Thrillers to Put You Off Traveling

"[C]onsider journeying vicariously from the safety of your own home..."

By Roz Nay | July 13, 2022

Adventures in Writing Time Travel

Adventures in Writing Time Travel

Kelley Armstrong on all the details you need to get right to believably whisk your characters (and your readers) into the past

By Kelley Armstrong | July 13, 2022

Closeness Breeds Contempt: On Small Town Mysteries

Closeness Breeds Contempt: On Small Town Mysteries

"The minute something really bad happens in a small community, locals start to wonder where the rot came from..."

By Lo Patrick | July 13, 2022

Trying To Do Too Much? Don't.

Trying To Do Too Much? Don't.

Rachel Howzell Hall has some tips for how to relax, avoid burnout, and reset your creative gears.

By Rachel Howzell Hall | July 12, 2022

Full Faith and Confidence: A Conversation with Denise Mina

Full Faith and Confidence: A Conversation with Denise Mina

The author discusses Glasgow, podcasters as new generation PIs, and the Florentine 'trial by fire' that's never far from mind.

By Nancie Clare | July 11, 2022

Munich: Raise a Beer to Southern German Crime Writing

Munich: Raise a Beer to Southern German Crime Writing

Crime and the City visits the Bavarian capital

By Paul French | July 11, 2022

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7 Unconventional Women at the Center of Great Novels

By Louise Hare | July 5, 2022

Agatha Christie's Most Memorable Unlikeable Characters

By Dianne Freeman | June 30, 2022

Cheryl Head On Using Crime Fiction To Tell The Story of Her Grandfather's Murder

By Kellye Garrett | June 30, 2022

Elly Griffiths on Lockdown, Locked Room Mysteries, and Pandemic Fiction

Elly Griffiths on Lockdown, Locked Room Mysteries, and Pandemic Fiction

When the world turns into a series of locked rooms, what's a mystery novelist to do?

By Elly Griffiths | June 30, 2022

The Challenge of Coloring Inside the Lines

The Challenge of Coloring Inside the Lines

"[W]ithin the exercise of recrafting these well-known tropes, what possibilities for variation exist?"

By Ann McMan | June 30, 2022

My Poison Snake: Erika Kobayashi on Growing Up in a Household of Sherlock Translators

My Poison Snake: Erika Kobayashi on Growing Up in a Household of Sherlock Translators

"Papa and Mama would debate endlessly the best way to transliterate “Watson” into Japanese...Meanwhile, my sisters and I would discuss various ways to die..."

By Erika Kobayashi | June 29, 2022

From Operating Theaters to Alcoholic Cells: A Visit to a 19th Century Hospital

From Operating Theaters to Alcoholic Cells: A Visit to a 19th Century Hospital

Or, what happens in Bellevue often stays in Bellevue (because you won't be returning home any time soon).

By Amanda Skenandore | June 29, 2022

Six Magical Mysteries For Those Who Believe In A World Beyond The Senses

Six Magical Mysteries For Those Who Believe In A World Beyond The Senses

These writers "incorporate magical, mystical, or paranormal elements into their stories."

By Daryl Wood Gerber | June 27, 2022

Santiago Crime Fiction: Hard to Escape Political History in Chile’s Capital

Santiago Crime Fiction: Hard to Escape Political History in Chile’s Capital

Crime and the City visits a city between the Andes and the Pacific

By Paul French | June 27, 2022

Death Goes Drag: How the Queer Experiences of Mystery Writers Rufus King and Clifford Orr Influenced Their Golden Age Detective Fiction

Death Goes Drag: How the Queer Experiences of Mystery Writers Rufus King and Clifford Orr Influenced Their Golden Age Detective Fiction

Skilled at switching gender roles in masquerade, King and Orr translated their college drag experiences into queer-coded fiction.

By Curtis Evans | June 23, 2022

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