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Dead Characters with Something to SayEarly in my second novel, Return To Blood , one of the main characters discovers the skeletal remains of a murdered woman in the cold...
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Did One Abandoned Soldier Accidentally Find His Way to the Legendary City of Gold?The sun was literally roasting Juan Martín de Albujar to death. It wouldn’t kill him, though. The hunger would do him in first. Or so he thought...
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Six Mysteries Set in Luxurious DestinationsArmchair traveling is among my favorite pursuits. And little else surpasses the joy of diving into the most luxurious corners of the world via...
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Writers and Musicians: When Artforms IntersectI have long held the belief that you can tell a lot about a cowboy by the way he treats his hat; the way he wears it, and the way he treats it...
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Hart Hanson On Screenwriting Vs. Novel WritingMy father grew up in a small lumber mill town in Idaho called Potlatch, where the panhandle meets the pan. In 1953, Potlatch High School won the...
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Crime and the City: Adelaide and South AustraliaThe first time I went to Adelaide the first thing everybody told me about the city was its specifically non-criminal antecedents. Adelaide, I...
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Publishing My Godmother’s “Lost” Murder Mystery Manuscripts“Aunt Betsy, what do we do with these boxes? They’re filled with paper,” my nephew shouted across the large playroom. In preparation for the...
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Several Observations Regarding The Ministry of Ungentlemanly WarfareIt’s that time of year again. There’s a new Guy Ritchie film in theaters. Last year, I went to the movies and experienced the...
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Love to Hate Her: Novels About Destructive Women“I gave her my ugliness.” This is what I said to my editor when we first spoke about El, the protagonist of my debut novel Man’s Best...
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The Bloody, Intertwined History of Anarchism and DynamiteJuly 5, 1915 Police headquarters, Centre Street, Manhattan The bombs came in all kinds of packages. Often they arrived in tin cans,...
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13 Weird, Fascinating Things I’ve Learned Researching Crime NovelsThe incredibly successful suspense author Harlan Coben once told me—with a chuckle—that he thought conducting research for a book was just...
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Humor in Mysteries and Thrillers Is No JokeAt Night Court one Christmas, John Larroquette gave me a sofa pillow embroidered with: “Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.” Larroquette, who...
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A Heavy Town: On Chicago, Author Ronald L. Fair, and Hog ButcherChicago has produced more than a few successful African-American writers, in both the literary and sales sense, including Richard Wright,...
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Time to Read Some Gothic Fiction!El Nino-induced flooding of biblical proportions has inundated my home this year, which can mean only one possible thing: TIME TO READ SOME...
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Three Great Time Travel Books for People Who Don’t Like Science FictionI was never a fan of science fiction. I have a vivid imagination but with the exception of the original Star Trek, there’s something about...
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The Escapist Joys of The Lavender Hill MobThe Lavender Hill Mob , which was made in 1951, is a film of endless charm and joy. It is a caper, which is (in my opinion) the best genre ....
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Monsters and Mortals: Famous Serial Killers on the ScreenFilm and television have given us a number of unforgettable serial killers to haunt our nightmares. Sometimes, their origins and crimes are...
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6 of the Best Queer MysteriesThere’s nothing I love more than sitting down with a queer mystery or thriller—obviously, as a writer of the genres myself! The twists, the...
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The Jessie Scouts: America’s Original Special Forces UnitJack Sterry sat astride the crossroads of history; at the right time and right place, he tried to shape the course of events by his actions....
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Randall Sullivan’s Strange, Wild, Personal History with the DevilIn the summer of 1995, I was living in a country at war. Where I kept my billet, in the westernmost province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the...
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The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the WorldAt seventeen thousand feet and halfway from India to China, pilot Joseph Dechene had lost both his aircraft’s engines to ice. His lumbering...
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A Gallery Owner’s Take On Writing About Art Theft in Latin AmericaLatin American crime rates are triple the world average and centuries of art can be found throughout the region, often unprotected or with...
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8 Ghost Stories That Will Haunt YouI love ghost stories. It’s not just the surface-level horror of the supernatural that appeals to me, but the deeper themes they can be used to...
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A Reading List of Mother’s Worst NightmaresMothers, it’s all your fault. But you knew that, right? Whether you: –Let your little boy wander away in a crowded shopping area, never to be...
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The Surprising Joys of Working In a Half-Way House for Ex-OffendersAt 23, I decided I wanted to work with offenders. I’d always been fascinated by people who did bad things, maybe because I was a little bad...
