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A Celebration of Reporters in Cozy Mysteries

A Celebration of Reporters in Cozy Mysteries

In a small town full of secrets, who better to start digging into everybody's business?

By Tara Lush | January 11, 2024

Catching Up with Louise Penny in Iceland

Catching Up with Louise Penny in Iceland

G.M. Malliet sat down with Penny at the recent Iceland Noir conference to discuss traditional mysteries, thrillers, and a return to Three Pines.

By G.M. Malliet | January 10, 2024

5 Great Thrillers That Deliver the Social Commentary

5 Great Thrillers That Deliver the Social Commentary

Amber and Danielle Brown on balancing suspense and critique.

By Amber and Danielle Brown | January 10, 2024

In These Novels, Friends Become the Family of Our Hearts

In These Novels, Friends Become the Family of Our Hearts

Lucy Connelly on books that find their inspiration in the bonds of friendship.

By Lucy Connelly | January 10, 2024

Shane’s Lot: How a 1949 Gun-Toting Loner Still Rides Through American Literature

Shane’s Lot: How a 1949 Gun-Toting Loner Still Rides Through American Literature

Maria Hummel on American Iconography and the 21st Century Revival of Western Writing

By Maria Hummel | January 10, 2024

Exploring the Isolation of the British Countryside

Exploring the Isolation of the British Countryside

Remote settings provide extraordinary possibilities for both beauty and brutality

By Stig Abell | January 9, 2024

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Chris McGinley on Appalachian Literature and Noir

By Wes Browne | January 9, 2024

How An Obsession With Art Crime Became a Thriller

By Jonathan Santlofer | January 9, 2024

Passionate Distortions: Patricia Highsmith and the Female Protagonist

By Katia Lief | January 9, 2024

Crime and the City: Kinshasa and the DRC

Crime and the City: Kinshasa and the DRC

A look at crime fiction set in and around Africa's most populous city.

By Paul French | January 8, 2024

Ian Hamilton On The Joys and Sorrows of Finishing a Series

Ian Hamilton On The Joys and Sorrows of Finishing a Series

After 19 books, taking a moment to contemplate "how it began, and how it somehow made it as far as it did."

By Ian Hamilton | January 8, 2024

The More the Deadlier: Multiple Points of View in Mysteries and Thrillers

The More the Deadlier: Multiple Points of View in Mysteries and Thrillers

Caz Frear on the heightened suspense of multiple POVs

By Caz Frear | January 5, 2024

Was 'The Leopard Man' Hollywood's First Slasher Film?

Was 'The Leopard Man' Hollywood's First Slasher Film?

How Cornell Woolrich's formally innovative serial killer novel 'Black Alibi' was adapted for the screen.

By Scott Adlerberg | January 4, 2024

The Most Terrifying Abandoned Train Tunnels in the World

The Most Terrifying Abandoned Train Tunnels in the World

J.H. Markert takes readers on a tour of haunted spaces.

By J.H. Markert | January 4, 2024

Running Away with the Fairies

Running Away with the Fairies

Tara Isabella Burton on using fairyland as a metaphor for cults and their ecstatic escape from reality

By Tara Isabella Burton | January 4, 2024

Cozy Mystery Subgenres: Making the Perfect Blend

Cozy Mystery Subgenres: Making the Perfect Blend

Mixing it up with historical, paranormal, and romantic cozies

By Patricia Sargeant, writing as Olivia Matthews | January 4, 2024

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