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Six Great Thrillers About Adventurers, Bohemians, Nomads, Runaways, and Other Modern RebelsSince childhood, I’ve been fascinated by stories about nomadic people, or those who are otherwise living off the beaten path: grifters, circus...
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Five Thrillers That Revolve Around Relics and Ancient DiscoveriesMaybe I was influenced a little too much by Indiana Jones as a kid, or perhaps a childhood growing up finding arrowheads and fossils on the flat...
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Female Friendships in Crime and Thriller NovelsFemale friendships can be complicated—just like the women in them. My own best friend and I have been through it all. The ups: laughing so hard...
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Rethinking Genre, or, The Great Genre RebellionFrom the moment I sold my first thriller, I’ve been acutely aware of genre. I’m not alone. The explosion of the psychological thriller in the...
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Worth the Wait: Talking with Mother Howl’s Craig ClevengerTwenty-one years ago. That’s when Craig Clevenger’s debut novel, The Contortionist’s Handbook , came out. That’s when I read it. The book,...
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Liz Lawson and Kathleen Glasgow On Crafting YA MysteriesLiz Lawson and Kathleen Glasgow are the authors of TheNew York Times bestselling murder mystery series The Agathas and The Night in Question...
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How Being Called a Plagiarist Made Me a WriterIt was 1962, I was in fourth grade, and my teacher Miss Houghton was not the nurturing type. She would sit behind her desk, glaring at her class...
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The Best Psychological Thrillers of June 2023June brings with an incredible array of psychological thrillers and novels of suspense, with plenty of horror cross-overs and some delightful...
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The Businessman and the AuthorNot long ago I was contacted by a businessman named John Kleinheinz. He’d read my novels, and he had a story he wanted to tell me about his...
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Six Great Thrillers Featuring Manipulative Mom-Friends at Their BestMom-friends. If you are a woman with children, then you’ve probably found yourself in this particular kind of circumstantial friendship. Would...
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Soundtracks to Accompany Four Classic Supernatural NovelsI wrote much of my new novel, Relentless Melt , during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020. My partner was in another city and I spent a lot of hours...
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My First Thriller: D.P. LyleCardiologist Doug “D.P.” Lyle kept telling himself he would write a novel someday—someday when he finally retired. His biggest problem was...
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Ivy Pochoda on Women, Violence, and the Power of Crime StoriesSet largely during covid lockdown, Sing Her Down introduces Florida, recently released from prison due to issues with overcrowding, thus...
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Drinking, Dancing, and Breaking the Law: Nightlife in the Jazz AgeThe 1920s was a decade of strict social hierarchies, with huge divides between wealthy elites and poor workers, bias against immigrants, racial...
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Historical Research as ProceduralThe appeal of the procedural is built upon a simple human desire: we love to solve problems, and we love to watch others solve them. Even better...
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On the Literary Roots of Die HardDie Hard had started with a man named Roderick going to see a movie in 1975. Novelist Roderick Thorp, a burly, bald former private investigator...
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‘Lou Grant’ and The Newspaper Business’s Moment on Primetime TVThe original opening credits of “Lou Grant,” the late-1970s, early 1980s TV series about the newspaper business, are of a particular time but...
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High Tech in Low Places: The Makings of the Tech Bro VillainThere are several reasons why corporations and/or billionaire CEOs make such good villains in works of fiction. First, all mysteries and...
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10 Thrilling Novels featuring HorsesHorses are highly sensitive herd animals and as such, they reflect the emotions of those around them—including their human partners. To quote my...
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Why Are We So Obsessed with Missing Persons Stories?It’s the not knowing, really, Isn’t it?. When we read mysteries and thrillers centered around solving a murder, we know the person is dead… but a...
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How The Homes of My Past Continue To Haunt My LifeI was born into a second-floor flat on the Lagos mainland. It was the kind of flat with a living room that blurred into pale muslins of smoke...
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The New Classics of Southern Crime FictionI wish I was the kind of person who could live happily in all kinds of places. Don’t get me wrong; I love to travel, and I’ve lived in most...
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S.A. Cosby on Inspiration, Serial Killers, and How He WritesThe success of Thomas Harris’s “Silence of the Lambs” unleashed a tide of serial killer novels throughout the ‘90s and ‘00s. You couldn’t walk...
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Jon Michaud on Bar Literature, Washington Heights, and the Ideal New York City SaloonI’ve often, in my mind, likened the perfect reading experience to sitting in a bar and finding myself drawn—at first reluctantly, then less...
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From Gritty Noir to Killer Quozies: Queer Crime Fiction Summer ReadsWith the pool at your feet and a cool beverage nearby, summer is the perfect time to pick up these novels and get lost in their pages. Queer...
