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Haute Couture and High Misogyny: The Bad Guys of 1970s FashionThe bad guys of 1970s fashion were as practiced at slaughtering reputations with a few casual sentences as any gunslinger armed with a pistol in...
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15 Speculative Crime Novels Coming Out in 2024As the world gets worse, the speculative fiction gets ever better (and maybe that’s just because we’ve finally acknowledged that...
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Galveston, Where Gulf Coast Stormy Noirs AboundGalveston, Texas – named after an 18th-century Spanish military leader, port of the one-time Texas Navy, an entry point for African slaves and...
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Inviting Nature Onto The PageNature can be a harsh partner for the novelist. Trying to integrate it into a passage or entire plot is a daunting effort that doesn’t always...
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Requiem for “Hightown,” a Queer Noir About the Rot Beneath ParadiseAfter the greed of studio bosses led to what The Simpsons would call a “ scary couple of hours ,” crime and mystery TV is back this year in...
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50 Years Later, What Is the Real Legacy of Helter Skelter?Once a place of movie-making fantasy, a decaying movie set became the starting point for vengeance on Hollywood. Known as “Spahn Ranch,” this...
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Adam Plantinga on Law Enforcement, Thrillers, and Writing CommunitiesIn the world of crime fiction (and fact) Adam Plantinga is an authority figure. A twenty-two-year veteran of law enforcement, he began his...
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Everything I Know About Noir I Learned From Michael MannThe publication date for my debut novel, The Devil’s Daughter is days away. In a sense it’s the apotheosis of my writing career. I’ve...
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Decolonizing the GothicWhen I was writing The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years , a novel of haunting love and loss set in an Indian community on the east coast of South...
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The Comfort of CoziesPeople sometimes ask me why I write cozy mysteries. It’s not a hard question to answer. At least I didn’t think so the first time I was asked....
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Cozy Sleuths with Moxie: An Appreciation and Reading ListFrom the beginning of my writing journey in 2000, I have always written sleuths with moxie and plenty of spunk. As Misty Simon I started with Ivy...
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The 20 Best, Worst, and Strangest Hercule Poirot Portrayals of All-Time, RankedHercule Poirot hasn’t been brought to the screen as many times as Sherlock Holmes has, but he’s certainly had his fair share of...
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January’s Best Debut NovelsA look at the month’s best debuts in crime fiction, mystery, and thriller. * Vanessa Chan, The Storm We Made...
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How Haunting is a Perfect Metaphor for PTSDMost people know that Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a result of trauma, but unless you’ve lived with it, it’s hard to really...
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James Bond’s Literary Life, After Ian FlemingFor a character whose screen adventures always end with, “James Bond will return,” it’s interesting how much of a struggle it has been to try to...
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Cate Quinn On Rehab, Recovery, and WritingIt was the summer I left rehab. I was officially six weeks “clean” of alcohol and was taking my first baby steps back into the real world, when I...
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Weirding the West: Strange Tales That Complicate the Picture of TexasIn 2015 I decided to write a magical realism western despite knowing nothing about magical realism or westerns. I wanted to fictionalize the...
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The Flitcrafting of Sam SpadeSpade had no original. He is a dream man in the sense that he is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and...
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Death of a NovelistIn June of 2022, the Supreme Court struck down a New York law known as The Sullivan Act which made it a felony to carry a concealed weapon...
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Killer Laughs: The Tricky Balance Between Tension and Humor‘Laughter is poison to fear,’ said George R. R. Martin in A Game of Thrones . ‘To laugh is to dispel the darkness,’ agreed Isobelle Carmody in...
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Agatha Christie’s Final MysteryAs it does for many, my obsession with Agatha Christie started young. I was ten or so when I picked up my first Christie, fresh off a...
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11 Crime Novels with LGBTQIA+ Themes To Check Out This WinterThe dark months call for dark stories. There’s nothing more delicious than to curl up under a blanket with a hot cocoa (or hot toddy!) and read a...
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50 Years of High Seas Adventures with Dirk PittIn 1973, a paperback thriller was published by Pyramid Press, written by an aspiring writer from Southern California. The book opened with an...
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The Creators of ‘Death and Other Details’ Discuss Writing a Classic Murder Mystery for a Contemporary AudienceThe characters boarding the SS Varuna, the location of the opulent locked-room mystery universe conjured in Death and Other Details by...
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The Backlist: Megan Miranda and Polly Stewart Revisit a Literary ThrillerWhen I began this series for CrimeReads , I imagined myself reading a lot of Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Sayers, and Chester Himes. That was...
