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The Four Corners of SubjectivityOne hears it all the time. A reader praises a book because they find the characters “likable” or “relatable.” Another...
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Following Agatha Christie’s Footsteps in TorquayI am sitting on the sweeping terrace of the Imperial hotel in Torquay, England, looking out over the breathtakingly blue water of the bay,...
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Shop Talk: Lou Berney Is a Fanatical Believer in NapsLou Berney is one of the reasons I write crime fiction. Coming up, I cut my teeth on Southern writers like Flannery O’Connor, Larry Brown,...
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How Paul Vidich Builds His World of Spies“We all have secrets… Secrets are a part of our lives and the lives of literature’s great characters. But spies operate in a more complex...
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When Contemporary Fiction Ages Into the HistoricalI find myself reflecting on my own teen years as I tackle Frankenstein -author Mary Shelley and her step-sister at age sixteen years for my new...
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The Western Meets Weird Fiction: A Roundtable DiscussionOnce a narrowly defined genre—set in the American frontier of the 19th Century—the definition of Western has expanded with contemporary takes...
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Five Disturbing Books That Violate Your SanctuaryIn another life, I’m sure I was a political assassin or, at the very least, a cold-hearted femme fatale who was on the right end of a gun or...
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Note to Self, and Other True Crime Fans: These Tragedies Are RealThe scene couldn’t have been written any better. It was the middle of the night and a father bolted upright in bed, hearing noise downstairs in...
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How a Trip to a Museum Turned into the Perfect Start to a MysterySchool field trips. Exhibitions. Guided tours. It might be easy to dismiss museums as stuffy or even boring, but they are far from...
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The Best Hotels – and Hotel Bars – in Espionage FictionBars in grand hotels figure prominently in the canon of spy literature. One of the pleasures I get from reading the novels of Joseph Kanon,...
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Nine Crime Novels Featuring Found FamiliesMy historical novel published in 2021, Death at Greenway , used research on the real people who had lived on the estate of Agatha Christie’s...
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A Country Road, in the Dead of Night: On The Historical Hauntings of Irish FolkloreFirst published in 1936, On Another Man’s Wound was written by Earnán Ó Máille and recounts his time as a guerrilla fighter during the Irish...
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How to Incorporate Social Justice into Your Cozy FictionI’ve thought a lot about why my mystery sensibilities veer slightly more cozy than hard-boiled. Tayari Jones , author of the superb novels An...
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When a Dispute Over the Pronunciation of ‘Newfoundland’ Turned DeadlyThe argument erupted at the supper table in a Colorado lumber camp near Castle Rock, a spot on the map at the edge of the Rocky Mountains and...
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The 10 Best Bounty Hunter MoviesThe bounty hunter is the ultimate outsider in law enforcement. Neither elected like a sheriff nor sworn in like a cop, the bounty hunter gets in...
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Crime and the City: HamburgI think it’s fair to say that, in general, Hamburg is a rather underrated German city. Berlin and Munich get the crowds, Frankfurt the money,...
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A Brief History of Circus in FictionThe history of travelling carnivals, or circuses, is complex. The form is steeped in tradition, but the people who live and make their living in...
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Sean Howe on High Times Magazine and Its Enigmatic, Larger-than-Life EditorFor someone who would dress all in black in the guise of a priest or in a dapper all-white suit, there remain shades of gray surrounding Thomas...
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The Best Reviewed Books of the MonthA look at the best reviewed crime fiction from September. * Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books)...
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On Writing an Urbex Thriller and Exploring the Vertical CityHow far would you go to be the first? The only? All the great cities have become theme parks, and all the theme parks feed lots, Burning Man a...
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On the Rise, and Fall, and Uncontainable Rebellion of CyberpunkThere once lived a man who was naked, raving, and could not be bound. According to the Gospel: “He tore the chains apart and broke the irons on...
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Ava Glass: Me and the SpiesI’d only been working for the British government for a few weeks when I met my first spy. I’d already had my background checked, and I...
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6 Creepy Novels Featuring Murder HousesThere’s something beautiful about ugliness. We all have it simmering under the surface. But we make damn sure not to show it. Why? In my debut,...
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Five Novels About War That Bear Re/ReadingA crime as large as a war may exceed the definition of crime in the usual sense. Crime is bad enough when it’s one or a few victims and one or a...
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Spenser at 50: The Evolution of Robert B. Parker’s Iconic CharacterFrom where he sits and writes in his Long Island home – in longhand, 10 pages a day – Mike Lupica can see a framed photograph of Robert B....
