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Every Picture Tells a Story: Cinema Speculation, The Getaway and MeEvery picture tells a story. If you don’t believe me, just ask Rod Stewart. Sir Rod practically coined the phrase in 1971. He liked it...
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A Murder of Poets: Or, the Inescapable Connections Between Crime Fiction and Poetry“Murder will out…” –Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales Poetry and pathology. Verse and victim. Meter and murder and...
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James Reich on Indie Publishing, Taking Risks, and the Beauty of MelancholyIn 2017, I read the novel Patricide, by D. Foy. It’s a brutal and challenging book, full of ungodly sorrow and heartbreak. It’s the kind of book...
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The Political Assassination That Transformed Africa, the UN, and the CIANothing much happens in Mélin, a picturesque village of little over a thousand people about an hour’s drive from Brussels. If the sleepy town has...
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8 Cozy Mysteries Featuring BFFs and Women Supporting WomenSo often in books and movies, women are put against one another. There is some sort of competitive spirit or revived childhood rivalry over...
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6 Thrilling Reads That Blend Folklore and HorrorFrom tales told around the campfire to major literary classics, there’s a reason we turn to folklore when we want a scary story with staying...
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90s Horror-Thrillers Created a New Generation of Would-Be DetectivesFor two now-distant decades, horror movies were less about whodunit, and more about how-the-hell-do-they-stop-this-guy? In 1978, Halloween...
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How Do Cold Case Investigators Identify A Body When DNA Testing Is Not Possible?The risk of becoming an unidentified decedent, or a John or Jane Doe, isn’t something most of us will face when we die—but it is a possibility,...
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What Is the Legacy of Walter Hill?Will the real Walter Hill please stand up? The screenwriter and director is hard to label. Should Hill, now in his 80s, be considered the...
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Safe Places: On Writing Books for Teens about Teen IssuesI moved ten times before I turned seventeen. That number doesn’t count temporary moves while waiting for housing, like the time we lived in a...
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5 Historical Mysteries Featuring Unforgettable, Unconventional WomenA lawyer in 1920s Bombay. A computer hacker/tech investigator in 1990s Paris. A deputy sheriff in 1914 New Jersey. What unites these characters,...
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Six Books About Women Working TogetherSo often we hear news of some criminally misogynist finally having a #MeToo moment. For most women, these stories are not particularly...
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100 years of Supernatural SearchingI began writing my third novel, Hazardous Spirits during one of the many national lockdowns for Covid in the UK. At the time, my partner and I...
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David L. Ulin on Capturing the Special, Despairing Noir of the WestDavid L. Ulin has spent the better part of thirty years as the preeminent book critic in the West; first at the late, great, LA Reader and...
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From Broadway Musicals to Thrilling Mysteries: A Writing Life in Two ActsI’ve always been a tremendous fan of thrillers, especially of the psychological variety. Whether on the page or on the screen, they rank amongst...
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Lately I’ve Been Dressing For Revenge: What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Genre FictionI used to say I hated Taylor Swift. The year was 2008. I was a poor grad school student subsisting on cheap slices and dollar Bud Lights,...
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The Existential Crisis of Home Invasions: A Reading ListI got into a car accident right after college, and I knew some insurance money was coming my way. The insurance agent had hinted it would be in...
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October’s Best Psychological ThrillersOctober brings a host of wonderful new psychological thrillers, distinguished by their commitment to using the form to explore pressing social...
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A Visit to the Trans-Allegheny Asylum; or, On Hauntings and HistoryWhat do you pack for a ghost hunt? The answer depends on what you hope to find. For my first ghost hunt I have brought a digital voice recorder...
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Halloween at 45: How Horror’s Scariest Franchise Makes Sense of the SenselessIn 1978, a young man escaped from the psychiatric institution where he had been held for fifteen years, ever since he murdered his older sister...
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Black Horror Fiction Has Always Been Here. What’s Changed Is The Attitudes of Gatekeepers.2023 has, so far, been a year full of innovative and mind-bending anthologies, and Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror is...
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Learning to Love Thrillers and Their Morally Compromised CharactersI’ve been a stay-at-home dad for six years now and I could tell you horror stories. I’ve changed diapers on gas station bathroom floors that...
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The LAPD Films of Ron Shelton, Twenty Years LaterAmong the few guarantees in life is that on any survey of great sports films, Ron Shelton’s name will appear more than once. The résumé of the...
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The Backlist: Revisiting Steven Hamilton’s ‘The Lock Artist’ with Elle CosimanoWhen I started writing crime fiction, what I worried about most was all the stuff you had to know. I had never been a criminal, a detective, a...
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Jesse Q. Sutanto on Toxic Friendships, Shrinking Attention Spans, and Finding the MuseAs one of the terminally online, I really enjoyed the recent “how often men think about the Roman Empire” discourse on Twitter. One...
