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Killing Your Characters Is Traumatic: And It Should BeI don’t want to kill again. It’s just too stressful. My first major kill was of a family: father and two daughters drowned in a flash flood. I...
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Literary Works In Which Crimes are a Means to Understanding ComplexityI grew up reading a combination of crime (both true and fictional), horror, and satisfyingly dense, meaty literary fiction about families by the...
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The 1931 Murder That Foretold a New Era of Crime and Corruption in New York CityThree East 236th Street is a trim little house on the eastern border of the park, just north of where the old Mosholu Parkway once emerged from...
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The Bloody Rivalry That Led to the Fall of Democracy in AthensThe Athenian General Alcibiades, a former student of Socrates, determines that he should reopen the road to the Temple of Eleusis and guard the...
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What Does It Mean to Write a Feminist Home Invasion Thriller?I once heard a joke that went something like: A man tells God, “I think my role should be to protect my family.” God says, “Great! Since...
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Writing with a Mask: Language and Authenticity In LiteratureAuthenticity is a big issue in literature. Who wants to read a fake? Nadie . Nobody! Now, when discussing English texts, the topic of...
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When Churchill Went to San SimeonWilliam Randolph Hearst was among the most important American titans Churchill hoped to add to his network. His twenty-eight newspapers reached...
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Anna Motz on the Taboo of Female ViolenceFor more than three decades I have worked in prisons, in secure units in hospitals, and in the community, acting in both assessment and...
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Ivar Leon Menger And Thomas Scholz Talk Fairy Tales, Folklore, and ThrillersGerman storyteller Ivar Leon Menger has written and directed award-winning short films and advertisements before creating epic radio plays as a...
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Chennai: Crime Writing in a South Indian MegalopolisThe megalopolis of Chennai Formerly known as Madras, and capital of Tamil-Nadu, the most southerly state of India on the Coromandel Coast....
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Bad Characters Make for Good Storytelling: A ConversationIn my new novel Sleeping With Friends , a woman wakes from a coma with only her memories of movies to guide her through the mystery of her...
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Some Thoughts on Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of BloodLately, I’ve been in the mood to watch Throne of Blood , the Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. Maybe it’s the wind or the...
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Shop Talk: Katie Gutierrez on Finding Space to Be Creative and Enjoying That Second Cup of CoffeeI first met Katie Gutierrez at the Edgar Awards ceremony in the spring of 2023. I was impressed by her honesty and her kindness. I didn’t...
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An Ode to Newsprint on ScreenIn an early scene in the first episode of “Slow Horses,” the British spy thriller series streaming on Apple TV+, a stack of newspapers is...
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The Delightful Encounters of Historical Crime FictionOne of the joys of writing historical fiction is that you get to meet so many interesting people. And I don’t mean other writers, I mean you get...
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Trance at Ten: Revisiting Danny Boyle’s Hypnotic Noir“Whatever happens, don’t be a hero.” Trance ’s opening close-up is of a Rembrandt: not only the artist’s painting Storm on the Sea of...
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To Write a Brutalist NovelIn fiction, architecture has the ability to both contrive a novel’s setting and to participate as a character. When I began work on my novel A...
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My First Thriller: Lisa GardnerWhen asked what it was like to publish her first novel, bestselling author Lisa Gardner immediately replies, “Which time?” After all,...
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The Backlist: Naomi Hirahara and Polly Stewart Read Chester Himes’ Noir ClassicCrime fiction sometimes seems like a solo sport: one man or woman coming up against the forces of confusion and chaos and fighting through them...
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Fictionalizing Real Trauma as a Means of HealingWhen I was nineteen and a college junior, I spent what was supposed to be an exotic, sultry, educational summer semester in Madrid. But my...
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Older Women Make the Best Sleuths and Spies (And Criminals)Which of us didn’t wish, as a child, that we might be invisible for the day? What fun we might have had: eavesdropping on the adults, sneaking...
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Electric Blue: A Personal Journey Through ‘Sea of Love’ and the 1980s NYC Dating SceneThe first time I heard the gorgeous swoon that is the song “Sea of Love” was in 1984 when former Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant formed the...
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Murder Mysteries, Magic, and MashupsWhen the initial idea for These Deadly Prophecies was born, I had no idea how to go about penning a murder mystery. This was a tad bit of a...
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Patrick Winn on the Southeast Asian Narco-State the CIA Helped BuildPatrick Winn’s Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel that Survived the CIA tells an epic story that almost nobody knows. An...
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Planes, Trains, and Homicides: Murder Mysteries in TransportHaven’t we all felt a little murderous when we’ve missed our train? Crime novelists certainly do. There’s a legacy of murder mysteries taking...
