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What Really Went On Between Coppola and Sheen in that Hotel Room During the Filming of Apocalypse Now?Late in July 1976, the Coppolas returned to the Philippines. Sofia was enrolled in first grade at a Chinese school where no one spoke English...
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“The Mousetrap”: Still Going Strong After 28,000 PerformancesOn the day Agatha Christie died in 1976, London theaters dimmed their lights for an hour in a show of esteem for her. While best known as the...
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Literary Fiction Can Be MurderFor a bibliophile, there’s nothing better than curling up with a good book. The last place most booklovers want to be is stuck in the middle of a...
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Delving Into the Real Story of Charlie Starkweather, Spree Killer, Demon of the American ’50sIn 1958, America was at the peak of the post-WWII boom. The country had emerged from the war as the strongest economic and military power in the...
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The White Priory Murders, A Christmas Mystery That Deserves To Be RememberedThe White Priory Murders is an “impossible crime” novel by the master of the locked-room mystery, John Dickson Carr, masquerading as Carter...
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Agatha Christie’s Most Romantic Murder MysteriesA closed circle of dubious personalities gather in one house at the invitation of a mysterious host. They hide tragic secrets, financial...
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Jail to the Chief: The 5 Worst Fictional Acts Committed by Real PresidentsNo one (well, maybe one person) runs for president without accepting the inevitability that they’ll be accused of ugly things. It’s almost...
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Books In Which Rich People (Think They Can) Get Away With MurderHaving money offers many privileges. Beautiful clothes, houses, and spouses. Glossy lives, glossy hair, and the odd glossy-coated pony. Better...
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Fall’s Best International FictionSorry, folks—we got a little behind with the column, but there’s been so many wonderful new novels in translation coming out this fall, I...
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Learning to Be Lost (and Found) in Fiction and in LifeIt’s 1986, and I’m lost in the forest. I’m ten years old, huddled at the base of a Ponderosa pine at the far reaches of Silver Lake, California,...
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Brave Women in Mysterious Circumstances: A Reading ListWhen I was 12 or 13, I read a book called The Other Side of Dark by Joan Lowery Nixon. There wasn’t a ton of YA in those days (this was before...
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The Backlist: Alex Finlay and Polly Stewart Revisit ‘I Am Pilgrim,’ by Terry HayesEveryone who has ever tried to write crime fiction understands the importance of pacing. It’s not enough to have a plot that sounds exciting on...
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The Best Psychological Thrillers of November 2023It’s about to be the start of the holiday season, and with everyone gearing up to spend as much (or as little) time with family as...
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Queen of the SupermarketThere’s a wonderful world where all you desire And everything you’ve longed for is at your fingertips Where the bittersweet...
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Why New Zealand Noir?Several years ago, I was sitting in a café with a group of fellow New Zealand writers, discussing books we’d recently read. With several of us,...
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Five Books With Righteous Female RageI didn’t intend to write a book about an angry woman. After all, furious, embittered characters—despite much progress—often remained the...
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5 New Books Coming Out This WeekAnother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Femi Kayode, Gaslight (Mulholland)...
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There’s Nothing Better Than A Good Bad Guy“The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.” —Alfred Hitchcock Let’s start with the simple assertion that all great...
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Cozy Mysteries to Add to Your Christmas StockingI don’t know about you, but a fresh set of fleece pajamas and a brand-new novel on Christmas Eve is one of my favorite holiday traditions. Throw...
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The CrimeReads 2023 Holiday Gift GuideHello everyone! It’s the Holiday season (the big long holiday season from Halloween to New Year’s that starts around the 4th of...
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On the Bizarre Relationship Between Lee Harvey Oswald and his MotherThe following is an excerpt from Deanne Stillman’s new book, American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Relationship Between Lee...
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From Academic to Crime Writer“You can’t be serious.” Twice in my life, academic colleagues and friends have had that reaction when I’ve told them what I was planning to do....
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Romance and Love Triangles in Cozy MysteriesWhen it comes to romance in cozy mysteries, readers range in their preferences from, “I’m more about the mystery,” to “Gimme all the romance.”...
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A List of Jewish Crime ThrillersMy novel The Great Gimmelmans is about a family of Jewish bank robbers who lose all their money in the Stock Market Crash of 1987 and start...
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How Max Marshall Wrote a College Fraternity Crime EpicHalfway through Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story , investigative reporter Max Marshall recounts his meeting with a man who used...
