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7 Modern Cozies to Look Forward to Reading in 2024Cozy mysteries are having a moment. The sub-genre is expanding and has resulted in a surge of popularity. Modern cozies maintain the core...
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We Need Black Horror Now More Than EverDuring the early years of the pandemic, I escaped into horror movies and books. There is something soothing about sitting at home alone in the...
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A Reading List of Marriage-Gone-Bad ThrillersMy first novel, For Worse, in bookstores April 2, 2024, is a domestic thriller about a vision impaired woman who’s trapped in a dangerous...
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Don Winslow Reflects on Writing His Final NovelFor more than three decades, Don Winslow has written bestselling novels about everything from the War on Drugs (with his sweeping Border...
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Five Great Murder Mysteries Set in College TownsWrite what you know—it’s a piece of advice you hear a lot. I’m not sure how useful it is. My first novel opened with a mysterious man buying a...
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What The Saga of Australia’s Granny Killer Teaches Us About Gender, Age, and VictimhoodThe Underhistory began with a box of old postcards. Written in the 1920s and 1930s, they were from an artist travelling Europe, notes back home...
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Of Fruit and Felonies: A Florida StoryRows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. I squint at the TV that the bailiff has rolled in on a cart....
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The Importance of a Great Setting in Crime FictionSome years ago, I was working on a draft of my first real mystery thriller. In the opening pages, I included a bit of description meant to...
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Eight of the Most Unlikely Amateur Sleuths in FictionEver since Miss Marple looked up from her knitting needles and solved her first murder, fiction has loved an unconventional amateur detective....
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Mini-Reviews from Three Months in Crime MoviegoingIn a maddening twist, nearly 1/4th of 2024 has already passed. I can barely remember to date things with the correct year, let alone comprehend...
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The Best International Fiction of March 2024Crime novels in translation were few and far between for the first two months of 2024, but March brings with it a deluge of mysteries and...
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The Strong, Complex Women of Historical Mystery and RomanceTwo of my great literary loves are historical mystery and romance–especially when they star strong, complex, and messy female main characters....
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Books in Which Children Go MissingMy husband, our young son, and I fostered seventeen dogs during the pandemic. Our son cried every time a dog went to their forever home. A couple...
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Hello, Miss Fenwick: Getting Reacquainted with a Crime Fiction GreatWhen Elzabeth Fenwick’s psychological crime thriller The Make-Believe Man was published in 1963, one of the novel’s many laudatory reviewers, a...
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Brendan Flaherty on Estrangement, Home, and the Rippling Effects of Trauma in ‘The Dredge’Cale and Ambrose Casey haven’t spoken in thirty years. The brothers at the center of Brendan Flaherty’s The Dredge became estranged after...
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Real Life Crimes That Are Stranger Than FictionThe truth is often stranger—wilder, more volatile, and somehow even more unbelievable—than fiction. Nowhere is this more evident than when it...
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4 Books In Which Children Are Accused – And Their Parents Wrestle with the TruthI’ve long wanted to write a story where I take something that is considered a universal positive—the love of a parent for their child—and...
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The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: March 2024A look at the month’s best new releases in crime fiction, mystery, and thrillers, via Bookmarks . * Ben H. Winters, Big Time...
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When Horror Hits Home: An Appreciation of Domestic HorrorThere once was a father who slaughtered a pig, and his children saw that. In the afternoon, when they began playing, one child said to the...
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When Good People Do Bad Things: Exploring Everyday Evil in Crime FictionIn my new novel SLEEPING GIANTS, the director of a children’s home uses a draconian new treatment method. Despite being without any...
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Y’all Means All: On the Growing Diversity of Southern Gothic and Rural NoirWhen I was young, I spent Friday afternoons at my maternal grandmother’s house with the pages of supermarket tabloids spread out in front of me...
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Robin Peguero on Satire and the Normalization of Political ViolenceOn the first day I joined the Select Committee Investigating the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, I was told to watch my back. An...
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How to turn Lunar New Year (and Other Holidays) Into a Setting for Your Next CrimeYears ago, I was describing the Lunar New Year celebrations to a friend of mine. I told her how huge my family is—my father has six siblings, my...
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On The Unbearable Ordinariness Of The Conspiracy TheoristWhen I started writing a novel about conspiracy theorists, I had a pretty good idea what to make of them. I was a cynic. I had followed the...
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Five Mysteries and Thrillers with a Reality TV TwistI may be just a wee bit obsessed with reality TV competition series – or so I’ve been told. Survivor (the OG), The Amazing Race, Big Brother,...
