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“LIKE a hug in a book” was how the the Dublin writer Kitty Graham described it to The Irish Times. It is an odd way to describe a literary genre concerned with murder and the worst...
Ireland is the cadaver on the dissection table in these murder mysteries by five women writers. Their books are forensic examinations of the country’s social dysfunction; the pasts...
There’s a universe of possibility in the crime mystery. While certain settings have become a staple of fiction—the Agatha Christie murder, the hard-boiled detective, the modern pol...
It’s a warm Saturday afternoon, and the festival is in full swing. String lights sway overhead in the summer breeze. Music drifts between booths selling kettle corn and cotton cand...
Ahead of the 80th Annual Edgar Award Ceremony, I asked the nominees for the Edgars (along with the special award winners) to contribute to a roundtable discussion on the state of t...
These literary mysteries combine lush prose with compelling plots and characters in one perfect package.
One of my greatest joys as a reader of crime fiction is diving into a new adventure featuring a favorite detective, amateur sleuth, or gang of lovable rule-benders. Crime fiction h...
As opposed to thrillers, in which spies and rogue agents routinely travel the world, dashing from Venice to Hong Kong to Rio, most mysteries take place in a single location: a smal...
by Debbie Burke Here’s a familiar trope in crime fiction: an author protagonist details a fictional murder that the author is later accused of. The book they wrote is used as evide...
The idea of the “cozy” mystery—stories that feature quaint settings, quirky characters, a bit of warmth, and most importantly the feeling that you’re in safe hands as a reader (tha...
By PJ Parrish As many of you regulars know, I have retired from fulltime novel writing. Still keeping my toes in the short fiction waters but the demands of turning out a novel per...
As a storyteller, creating a mystery is nightmare fuel. How do you come up with an original premise? How do you plant clues and red herrings without giving away the ending? How do...
Across the new crime novels we write about this week you’ll visit some pretty remote places – forgotten mining towns, backwoods places and the fringes of cities where tourists neve...
Below, you’ll find part two of our roundtable discussion on the state of the crime genre. 40 Edgar nominees and special award winners contributed to the following conversation, for...
Deborah Levison may only be three books into her literary career, but she has already distinguished herself with a talent that transcends genre. Her first release was the award-win...
In this zen and zany crime debut, a shady lawyer transforms his life through mindfulness—and uses his newfound techniques to kill his way to the top.
Patrick Cottrell’s second novel Afternoon Hours of a Hermit begins with a mysterious envelope delivered in the mail; inside is a childhood photograph of the narrator’s deceased bro...
Rural noir – crime stories set in small American towns, nestled among cornfields and along winding riverbanks – has long been a hugely popular and influential subset of crime movie...
A serial killer's victim is brought back in a speculative crime novel, a young Wiccan brings back some murdered girls, and more.
A misty seashore, a scented pine forest, or a foggy woodland river. Any of these set the tone for mystery and suspense. But why do they trigger our primal urge to venture off into...
Crime and the City has ventured to Canada a few times previously—we checked out the crime writing of Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto so it would be churlish of us not to pay the ca...
by Fitzroy Morrissey, The Critic When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine? In Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Expres...
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