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Justice, Appearances, and Reality: Victor Suthammanont On Crafting a Legal Thriller With No Easy Resolution

Justice, Appearances, and Reality: Victor Suthammanont On Crafting a Legal Thriller With No Easy Resolution

Crime fiction is neat. Real life is messy. And the best novels hit somewhere in between.

By Victor Suthammanont | August 8, 2025

Teaching Daughters to Bite Back—Female Violence as Power in Horror

Teaching Daughters to Bite Back—Female Violence as Power in Horror

"Modern-day horror gives women dimension in a way that we’ve been denied."

By Rachel Eve Moulton | August 8, 2025

Virginia Trench: Elizabeth Holmes Inspired My Debut—But Not In The Way You Think

Virginia Trench: Elizabeth Holmes Inspired My Debut—But Not In The Way You Think

On bad blood, feminist thrillers, and the Holmes Effect

By Virginia Trench | August 8, 2025

Alex Pavesi on the Uncanny Practicality of Setting Crime Novels in the Recent Past

Alex Pavesi on the Uncanny Practicality of Setting Crime Novels in the Recent Past

The Author of "Ink Ribbon Red" Evokes the Dreamlike Unreality of Life in the 1990s

By Alex Pavesi | August 7, 2025

Joyce Carol Oates on True Crime, Genre, and Writing an Experimental Mystery Novel

Joyce Carol Oates on True Crime, Genre, and Writing an Experimental Mystery Novel

Matthew Turbeville Chats with the Prolific Author about Her New Book "Fox" and More

By Matthew Coleman Turbeville | August 7, 2025

Five Essential Thrillers Perfect for the Aspiring Writer

Five Essential Thrillers Perfect for the Aspiring Writer

Joy Fielding recommends the novels that have most informed her craft

By Joy Fielding | August 6, 2025

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Megan Miranda On Life Imitating Art Imitating Life

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Florida Man Writes Novel: Joe Pan on Philosopher-Bikers, Poetry, and Korean Horror Films

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Capturing the unabashedly weird, postlapsarian world of the Sunshine State's Space Coast

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How Kathleen Kaufman Reckoned with the Attempted Murder of Her Mother

How Kathleen Kaufman Reckoned with the Attempted Murder of Her Mother

The writer reflects on femicide, domestic violence, and feminist rage

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Paranormal Craft: The Rules of Incorporating Supernatural Elements into Mystery Stories

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Juliet Blackwell Offers Some Guidelines for Writing the Literary Uncanny

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In Borderlands of Truth and Silence: Jennifer Givhan on Writing Mexicali Magical Realism

In Borderlands of Truth and Silence: Jennifer Givhan on Writing Mexicali Magical Realism

The Author of "Salt Bones" Takes on Motherhood, Inherited Trauma, and Erasure

By Jennifer Givhan | July 29, 2025

No Way Out: Using Locked-Room Mysteries to Explore Psychological Entrapment

No Way Out: Using Locked-Room Mysteries to Explore Psychological Entrapment

Kelsey Cox on Whodunits, Vulnerability, and Creating Literary Claustrophobia

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Lauren Wilson's Favorite Books Featuring Cults

Lauren Wilson's Favorite Books Featuring Cults

Rounding up a disturbing and fascinating sub-genre.

By Lauren Wilson | July 24, 2025

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