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Isis Crawford: What Baking Means to Me As a Mystery Writer
A little history first. My father died when I was six years old, and my grandmother moved into our apartment in New York City to take care of me. Suddenly our kitchen smelled of sugar and butter. My...
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Why Luxury Hotels Are Gold for Crime Novelists
Picture it: you’re eighteen years old, in the most beautiful place you have ever seen. It’s located in the desert, in Utah. The architecture is like nothing you’ve seen before. It’s modern but somehow...
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Top 10 Time Travel Books
Putting together this list, I realised many of my favourite time-travel books date from childhood. I remember the thrill of the clock striking thirteen in Tom’s Midnight Garden, the excitement of the...
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The Murder Mystery: Keeping It Fresh
When you consider the total number of murder mysteries that have appeared in this country and abroad, in print and on screen, since Edgar Allan Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue appeared in 1841, you’d...
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Elly Griffiths on Victorian London, Time Travel, and Her New Mystery, ‘The...
Elly Griffiths is the author of more than two dozen mystery novels, including The Great Deceiver, The Last Word, and the short story collection The Man in Black. She remains perhaps best known for the...
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California and the Occult: A Summer Travel Guide!
California has long been a place where creatives, misfits, and spiritualists have flourished. It’s also the place where I grew up. My novel, The Colony of Lost Souls, takes place in early 1930s...
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It Could Be Any One of Us: The Top 10 Closed-Circle Mysteries
As a reader, I find the most satisfying whodunits to be the ones which take place in a “closed circle.” Typically, this scenario presents the reader with a limited pool of suspects, often isolated in a...
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One Morning in Auckland
The Auckland City of CARVED IN BLOOD as seen through the eyes of Hana Westerman, the Māori ex-cop and former detective Hana Westerman, who serves the main character in Michael Bennett’s series. Photos...
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Polly Stewart: Why I Had to Write About Modern-Day Moonshiners
I was offered moonshine for the first time in my freshman year of college. I went to a small school in southwest Virginia, not far from Franklin County, popularly known as the Moonshine Capital of the...
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Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in Buckingham Palace
So, you’re in Buckingham Palace. The official London residence of the sovereign, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of His other Realms and...
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