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Iceland Noir: A Roundtable Discussion
Last November, I was given a rare opportunity: fly to Iceland for the crime fiction festival Iceland Noir, on the tourist bureau’s dime, and enjoy the glorious offerings of a small but mighty nation...
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Naomi Kaye on the Legacy of the Jonestown Massacre in Literature
The terrible tragedy of The People’s Temple mass cult suicide and additional homicides that took place in 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana still loom large in collective memory and popular culture today....
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Kisses and Killers: Kim Harrington’s Favorite Rom Com Mysteries
As a reader of mystery and romance, I find myself pulled to both genres for the same reason—comfort. In mysteries, there may be tragedy, mistakes, and suspense. But I know by the end the villain will...
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Agatha Christie’s Rarely-Adapted Tommy and Tuppence Series is Now a Show
Feature image credit: Nick Wall via Variety Agatha Christie fans, rejoice! Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence series has a new adaptation! This series of Christie’s features two of her lesser-known...
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Lethal Luxury: 6 Novels Set in Decadent Locales
I don’t know about you, but I read to escape. To leave the mundane world behind. To dive into a setting completely different from my own. And to me, few things are more escapist than novels set within...
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Abby Geni on Mental Hit Lists, Viking Culture, and the Complexity of Empathy
Most of us have a mental hit list. These are the people we would kill if we could get away with it. Maybe you daydream about murdering an ex, or a childhood bully, or that one coworker who still has...
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Zoje Stage on Writing Genre Fiction in An Era of Extreme Political Division
Incorporating real-world political or social issues into a commercial novel has always been tricky, if not questionable. Is it necessary for the story, or the character? Will a clearly defined position...
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Will Ferguson on the Japanese Backpacking Trek That Inspired His Latest Mystery
A missing lens cap, a mistaken headline, and a Catholic church in southern Japan: these are the pieces of the puzzle that needed to come to together for me to write my novel Officer Shimada and the...
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Jonathan Santlofer: Why the Art World is Tailor-made for Crime Fiction
Why? Because art is expensive. Think about it, paintings and sculptures are unique objects made by one artist over a lifetime, limited in supply, ergo valuable. Example: Leonardo da Vinci made only 15...
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Michelle L. Cullen on the Secret Weapons of Cozy Amateur Sleuths
Cozy mystery amateur sleuths always seem to stumble into solving murders with surprising results. Their day jobs may seem like ordinary professions on the surface, but once a mysterious death occurs,...
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How to Hide a Body and (Maybe) Get Away with Murder in Fiction
After decades of watching and reading thrillers, you would think that most people would be well versed in the ins and outs of getting away with murder. Yet, time and time again, we see an alibi...
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Allison Brennan on the Thrill of Giving Back to the Crime Writing Community
For most of us, writing is a solitary profession. We imagine, we research, we write, we revise. Sure, sometimes we brainstorm with others or call upon experts for information, but when it’s time to put...
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In fantastic news, Arturo Perez Reverte’s wonderful Sherlock Holmes pastiche The Final Problem is becoming a miniseries! The novel takes place in 1960 in Greece, and is about a retired actor, Ormond...
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Crime and the City: The Azores
Nine volcanic islands in the mid-Atlantic Ocean that are technically part of Portugal, though are 1,500 km west of the Portuguese mainland. The Azores consist of (among a few other islands) São Miguel...
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Outsiders in the Bush: Garry Disher on Australian Outback Noir
There have always been Australian crime novels set in remote areas, but a distinctive cluster of them has appeared in recent years, prompting reviewers to use the phrase, “outback noir.” The subgenre’s...
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The Most Anticipated Mysteries, Thrillers, and Crime Novels of Fall 2026
Here are 78+ new and upcoming novels to fill out the rest of this long, long year. You’ll see quite a bit of horror in here, as Halloween season now seems to start in mid-July (summerween, anyone?) and...
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The Best Pointy- and Floppy-Eared Canine Characters, According to Margaret...
Recently, a friend asked me what dog breed I would recommend for personal protection from home invasion. Oddly enough, two of my characters were discussing this very topic in my eleventh Timber Creek...
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8 Great Tales That Feature Supernatural and Otherworldly Houses
Horror is having a moment. From masterful spins on classic gothic tales to daring new explorations of supernatural and psychological horror, readers are chomping at the bit for spooky tales. Perhaps...
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Kasey Lansdale on Writing an Inexperienced Small-Town PI Protagonist
When I first thought about writing a PI novel, I read and heard lots of advice about how to make your character good at what they do. Fellow authors talked about the research they had done to learn...
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A Brief History of Stolen Paintings
At five minutes past seven in the morning of Monday 21st August 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian decorator, walked into the Louvre in Paris dressed in a white workman’s smock similar to the ones...
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