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What Do Modern Mystery Novels and Medieval Mystery Plays Have in Common? Sin.I live in Bern, the capital of Switzerland, which has a magnificent medieval core, and I’m currently working on the fourth mystery in my Polizei...
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Crime Writer Heather Graham on Moonlighting as a MusicianA few things were constant in my life—my folks both loved books and with my dad being Scottish and my mom having come from Ireland, I had access...
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The Expatriates: Spy Fiction’s Hapless UnfortunatesExpatriate is a hard term to work with. In Europe it’s almost become an insult. No matter, for my purposes I’ll take it to mean those poor,...
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C. S. Harris Considers the Art of Historical FictionC. S. Harris is the bestselling author of the Sebastian St. Cyr Mysteries, set in the first decades of the 19th century, as well as several...
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Don Winslow on the Aeneid, Hollywood, and Reaching the End of His Career as a NovelistDon Winslow has written his last novel. That was the unavoidable takeaway from our latest conversation, which came in the weeks before the...
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Exploring Social Issues Through HorrorWhat makes a horror story scary? Is it a monster? An act of random violence? The spilling of blood? Or is it what those things symbolize that...
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10 New Books Coming Out This WeekA nother week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * John Lawton, Moscow Exile (Atlantic)...
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Crime and the City: LhasaThe ancient capital of Tibet, its name literally translates as “place of gods,” a religious centre as devout as the Vatican, Mecca,...
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Seeking Crime Fiction Inspiration From The Odyssey“All great literature is one of two stories,” according to the quote usually attributed to Leo Tolstoy. “A man goes on a journey or a stranger...
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Mysteries for Romance FansSpring is the perfect time for romance, even in a mystery novel. Love adds balance to a book with dark themes. It also humanizes sleuths, often...
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Renfield Doesn’t Know What to Do With Itself“What if Dracula’s long-suffering, bug-eating lunatic henchman Renfield finally got fed up with the abuse wrought unto him by his...
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Searching for the Golden Triangle’s “Opium Queen”There hadn’t really been uncensored newspapers in Myanmar since the military coup in the sixties. The Myanmar Times publisher, a...
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A Snapshot of the Many and Various Criminals Aboard the TitanicAt the recent Left Coast Crime conference in Tucson, Arizona, an author panelist was asked how long she could keep writing stories about her...
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On the Enduring Charms and Sly Wit of Jane Austen’s Northanger AbbeyAsk a casual reader what springs to mind when they think of Jane Austen, and you’ll likely hear some combination of Mr. Darcy and balls and...
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5 Deliciously Dark Novels that Explore the Sinister Side of MarriageMarriage has always been a theme in literature, but there’s been a rise, in the last few years, of thrillers centered on disturbing and toxic...
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How Ian Fleming Wrote Casino Royale and Changed Spy Fiction ForeverJames Bond has two origin stories. One starts on a February morning in 1952. Seeking distraction from his upcoming wed- ding, Ian Fleming sat...
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Top 10 Espionage Novels Centering Women’s StoriesAs a lifelong fan of James Bond and the spy genre, I am honored to take on the mantel of 007 in a new saga expanding the Double O section. While...
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Nazi-Hunting in Movies and TV Thrillers, Over the DecadesMovies and television have re-fought World War II almost continuously for more than 70 years. I’m not talking about stories set during the war,...
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How Writers Lace Truth Into Their FictionLiterary folk have had plenty to say about truth’s relation to fiction. Ernest Hemingway expressed his sentiments this way: “All good books are...
