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    Eight Books Exploring Real Life Crimes in Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction

    Or, in search of understanding why ordinary people do terrible things

    March 1, 2024  By Megan Cooley Peterson
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    Drinking with Agatha Christie

    In Christie's novels, a character's choice of beverage always deepens the mystery.

    February 29, 2024  By Naomi Kaye
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    Thomas Mullen On Writing About Historical Conspiracy Theories in a Post-Truth Age

    "[W]e’ve gotten used to the common refrain that we live in “unprecedented times.” But... pretty much nothing is unprecedented."

    February 29, 2024  By Thomas Mullen
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    Framed: Mysteries Where the Sleuth is Wrongly Accused

    These detectives must solve crimes in order to prove their own innocence

    February 29, 2024  By Jenn McKinlay
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    My First Thriller: Mary Kubica

    How a very private writer made a very big public splash.

    February 28, 2024  By Rick Pullen
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    A Writer's Themes: Why and How Do They Keep Returning?

    Jon Lindstrom discusses themes – and how they differ in novels in screenplays – with some of today's top thriller authors.

    February 28, 2024  By Jon LIndstrom
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    Writing the Stories I Needed to Read: Fiction as a Lifeline

    Rebecca Roque on "the wounds we carry and what we choose to do with them"

    February 28, 2024  By Rebecca Roque
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    Peg Tyre and Peter Blauner On Three Decades of Marriage and Writing

    "From one point of view, it was a kind of madness. From another, it was just the writing life."

    February 28, 2024  By CrimeReads 
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    Which Jane Austen Protagonists Would Make the Best Detectives?

    Ranking Austen's heroines from to worst to best based on their skills of deduction

    February 27, 2024  By Jessica Bull
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    On the Freedoms and Horrors of Creating a Fictional Setting For Your Murder Mystery

    You can give your small town an opera house, sure, but then you have to remember which direction the opera house faces.

    February 27, 2024  By Will Ferguson and Ian Ferguson
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