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Six Great Mystery Novels Set in HotelsHotels are an excellent setting for mystery novels. With so many people arriving from all different walks of life, it’s an ample backdrop to...
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How to Edit a Series of Crime Novellas with 30 Different Authors and Come Out the Other Side Feeling GratefulTalk to anyone who has edited an anthology, planned a Noir at the Bar, or even just tried to figure out where to go for dinner, and you’ll get...
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Wilderness Thrillers Featuring Fearless WomenI’m what you might call a mini-adventurer. I’ve climbed rockfaces, rafted rivers, backpacked into the wilderness and once slithered through a...
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Lee Goldberg on Westerns, Crime Novels, and Writing A Genre Mash-UpI’ve always loved crime novels and westerns. I’ve written dozens of crime novels, but not any westerns. Or so I thought. A few years...
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How a German Spy Chief Built a Smuggling Network out of a Mission to Install a Nazi King in BritainWalter Schellenberg had few redeeming personal attributes and could easily be characterized as just another career Nazi. He owed his lofty...
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Showing the Human in the Inhumane: Why Lindsay Hunter Loves True CrimeI have been an avid consumer of true crime for decades now. Before podcasts, I watched the Paradise Lost documentaries, Dateline NBC (a...
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From Sports Reporter to Crime WriterAsk me why I created a female sports reporter protagonist and the answer is easy. That’s my background. I intimately know the character’s...
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Crime and the City: Monte CarloHow could there not be a lot of crime in Monaco – a tightly packed nest of wealth, sex and power all in the sunshine of the Riviera. Officially...
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Native American Novels, Recommended by Indigenous BooksellersI am a book pusher. Think Tina Fey in Mean Girls at her desk chomping a chocolate doughnut and explaining, “Because I’m a pusher. I push...
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The Magic of Sisterhood: Five Supernatural Sister StoriesHalloween season has always been steeped in sisterly magic. Think of the Sanderson sisters in Hocus Pocus or the Owens sisters in Practical...
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Anatomy of a Fall Is a Stunning Experiment in UnknowabilityIn 1990, Jens Soering and Elizabeth Haysom were found guilty of the murders of Haysom’s parents. Haysom, who testified against Soering, claimed...
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How Much Do We Really Know About Charles Dickens?The weather has been exceptionally mild of late but in this Christmas season every party demands a good blaze and good cheer. What with the fire...
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A Childhood Full of Love and Death: On Growing Up With a Father in ForensicsIt wasn’t a surprise to those who knew me as a child that when I start telling stories for a living, they were centered around the forensic and...
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The Real Life Marital Imbroglio of Ernie Sherry, Son of Crime Writer Edna SherryFor decades American novelist and playwright Edna Sherry, author between 1948 and 1965 of nine crime novels, has essentially been viewed as a...
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Vanessa Lillie on Writing a Thriller That Explores Native American Issues and Environmental InjusticeVanessa Lillie says she’s “an impatient reader,” a trait that influences her writing: “I really like to create characters who are aggressively...
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A Cultural History of the Erotic ThrillerThe strip mall video rental store was an emporium of illicit dreams. Its doorway in the small town where I came of age, located in between candy...
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James Kennedy: “Storytellers are manipulative cult leaders.”I missed my chance to be in a cult. In my twenties, a guy on the street handed me a pamphlet to join a “communal farm”—an obvious cult....
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Sudden Death and the Startlement of AbsenceSudden Death is a dirty business. It touches you, and there’s no rubbing it off. Scrub until you bleed. No dice—it remains. Maybe that’s why I...
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The Ineffable Crimes of Lawrence OsborneThere are a number of authors who perilously straddle the line between the crime genre and literary fiction. They avoid easy genre definition...
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The Dead Girl and the Survivor TropeWhen I first picked up crime thrillers as a teenager, I remember being fascinated by how many plots begin with the discovery of a dead girl....
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How Unlikeable Characters Freed Me From PerfectionismI’m hardly the first author to call herself a perfectionist. In fact, I’m sure many of us were once described as “a pleasure to have in...
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Confessions of a Serial Anthology EditorMy parents moved to Paris in France for work when I was only three years old. As a result, not only did I become bilingual (and was once capable...
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On the Uncanny Delights of the The Invisible ManI wish so badly that I could have seen The Invisible Man in 1933 when it premiered in theaters. The film is a carnival of early special...
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Monster, Survivor, Villain, Victim: The Many Faces of Queer HorrorBelieve it or not, the first time many young queers feel seen in media isn’t in some sweet romcom, it’s in horror. It doesn’t necessarily have to...
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What Are Thriller Authors Truly Afraid Of?At Halloween, fear is an emotion that is universally celebrated, but for me, terror has been an ever-present source of inspiration for fiction....
