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    A Crime for All Seasons – Why Cozies Aren’t Just for Fall

    Gretchen Rue on the evergreen delights of the cozy mystery.

    November 6, 2024  By Gretchen Rue
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    Honolulu Noir: A Tsunami of Colonization

    Chris McKinney lays out the noir history of the Hawaiian city.

    November 5, 2024  By Chris McKinney
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    The Enduring Appeal of the Female Sleuth (and Her Friends)

    Karen White, Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig on the great women-led mysteries that inspired their new novel.

    November 5, 2024  By Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White
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    Mothers Who Go to Extremes – And Drive the Action in Crime Fiction

    Maria Kelson on the kinds of mothers who make for great mystery and thrillers.

    November 5, 2024  By Maria Kelson
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    Christina Lynch: Why I Decided to Write a Version of "The Odyssey" From The Perspective of a Horse Solving a Mystery

    Like the ancient hero's quest to find home, Lynch's pony's perambulations are both harrowing and emotionally resonant

    November 5, 2024  By Christina Lynch
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    Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Quandaries: Women Finding Their Power in Literature

    "This is the heart of the suspense genre: an innocent, faced with certain death or destruction, who must rise above and save herself—and others."

    November 4, 2024  By J. T. Ellison
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    Crime and the City: Birmingham, Alabama

    Our international crime fiction series pays a visit to the other Birmingham.

    November 4, 2024  By Paul French
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    Navigating ‘Dark Space’: How Rob Hart and Alex Segura Mashed Up Spy and Speculative Fiction

    An interview with Hart and Segura, authors of a new genre-bending novel.

    November 4, 2024  By Nick Kolakowski
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    Looking Back at Heist Film "Quick Change", In Which Bill Murray Plays a Sad, Sad, Clown

    The movie is criminally underrated, and the one-liners? Unparalleled.

    November 1, 2024  By Patrick J. Sauer
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    “Elsbeth” Takes it Cues from Cozy Mysteries 

    The oddball sleuth uses her quirks — and others' low expectations of her — to solve murders 

    November 1, 2024  By Elizabeth Held
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