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The Best Psychological Thrillers of JanuaryThis month’s best psychological thrillers have a wide variety of settings and a focus on characterization. There’s also several on...
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Tracy Clark and Gregg Hurwitz Talk Genre Fiction and Social JusticeTracy Clark is the two-time Sue Grafton Memorial Award-winning author of the highly acclaimed Chicago Mystery Series featuring...
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MWA Announces the 2024 Edgar NominationsThe Mystery Writers of America has announced the nominees for the 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction...
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9 Great Speculative WhodunnitsScience fiction and fantasy are often full of epic space battles and sprawling quests. But to me, they’re best at their most intimate and...
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Ryan Gosling, Crime Cinema’s Nice GuyIf I had to describe The Nice Guys (2016) in one word, it would be “underrated.” Though it achieved instant critical acclaim, its modest...
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The Late, Great L.A. “Hang” FilmI grew up in Philadelphia, where winters could be brutal. David Goodis said it best on the opening page of Black Friday : “January cold came...
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Atrocities Are Inevitable in Wars of OccupationHere are the undisputed facts. On March 15, 1968, Lieutenant Colonel Frank Barker ordered Captain Ernest Medina to lead his company of about 100...
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Recent Crime Novels by AAPI Authors: A Reading ListGrowing up in a middle-class family in Mumbai, I wasn’t surrounded by luxuries, but there was one thing our home was never short of – books. My...
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The Most Anticipated Crime Fiction of 2024Another year has dawned, and it’s time for another list purporting to be the sum of all Most Anticipated Titles in our beloved genre. I...
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Why Armando Lucas Correa Went From Historical Fiction to Writing a ThrillerThe Silence in Her Eyes is a book I wasn’t supposed to write. The first time I told my editor that I was thinking about writing a...
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Abbott Kahler On Mirror Twins, Doppelgängers, and The Shadow SelfOn January 19, 1919, 34-year-old identical twin sisters Gladys and Dorothea Cromwell boarded the ocean liner La Lorraine at Bordeaux, France,...
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The Life and Times of William J. Flynn, the “Bulldog Detective”It had to be the worst decision of his life. Heinrich Friedrich Albert was sitting comfortably and reading as he traveled uptown on the Sixth...
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How a Great Editor Changed My Manuscript and My Life“I loved books and wanted my whole life to be around books.” Such were the words of Richard Marek, an acclaimed editor, author, ghostwriter,...
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Writing Thrillers in the Post-#MeToo EraWe all thought everything was going to change didn’t we? There was a moment back there, when more and more women started standing up and saying,...
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The Strange, Twisted Poetry of Intolerable Cruelty“The first thing we do,” announces Dick the Butcher in Act IV, Scene II of William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part II, “is kill all the lawyers.”...
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The Year’s Best International Crime SeriesOur Crime and the City columnist and international correspondent Paul French looks back at some of 2023’s best crime series from around...
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6 Great Novels About Missing Persons and Deeper MysteriesDetective series or thrillers about murders demand from the reader a level of intellectual curiosity, as well as nerves of steel and a strong...
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What Sam Shepard Taught Me About Exploring The Darkness WithinIt was at the tender age of twenty-one years old that I was first exposed to the untethered brilliance that is Sam Shepard. While studying...
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The Bizarre Pleasures of the 1980s ‘Twilight Zone’ RebootRod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” is the gold standard for anthology TV shows, science-fiction and fantasy TV series and, some might argue, TV...
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James Grippando: 30 Years of Lightning Bolts, Percolators, and other Sources of Inspiration“How do you get your ideas?” Novelists are asked that question all the time. Answering it is a little like trying to explain how you got...
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Cascadia: Crime Fiction in the Pacific NorthwestThe term Cascadia conjures images of thick green forests, lush ferns that could swallow a small car, creeping pea-soup fog, windswept bluffs...
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A Celebration of Reporters in Cozy MysteriesWhen I was eight, I read a book that would dictate the course of my life. That book was Harriet the Spy . As a kid in suburban...
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Catching Up with Louise Penny in IcelandDespite a backdrop of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions threatening travel plans to Iceland, I was able to catch up with Louise Penny, author...
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5 Great Thrillers That Deliver the Social CommentaryOur goal with all of our books is always to write something fun and fast-paced, but it also must touch on certain themes like privilege, racism...
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In These Novels, Friends Become the Family of Our HeartsIt never dawned on me how much I use ‘friends as family’ as a trope in what I write. Hindsight is a funny thing. From that first...
