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Why Mariah Fredericks Is Taking on the Lindbergh Kidnapping – From the...
Reality often plays a role in fiction. There are contemporary “ripped from the headlines” stories—these days often with a podcaster as the protagonist— lining the shelves are novels inspired by...
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Denise Mina Takes on Philip Marlowe and Chandler’s Los Angeles
Fictional characters are immortal, their creators, not so much. Authorial death be damned: fans, both longtime and new, often want more. And the truth is, in excavating crime fiction’s O.G.’s there are...
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The Creators of ‘Death and Other Details’ Discuss Writing a Classic Murder...
The characters boarding the SS Varuna, the location of the opulent locked-room mystery universe conjured in Death and Other Details by writers, executive producers, and showrunners Heidi Cole McAdams...
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Abir Mukherjee on Writing a Conspiracy Thriller “From a Position of Anger”
In the immortal words of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, “And now for something completely different…” For Abir Mukherjee – the author of the award-winning, immensely popular procedural series that takes...
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Susan Elia MacNeal on the Conclusion of Her Series, Women’s Role in War and...
Crime fiction authors are often asked about the inspirational alchemy that sparked the idea for their central characters and where they see them going in subsequent books. Because, let’s face it,...
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Rachel Howzell Hall on Grief, Strength, and the Purifying Nature of Fire
Rachel Howzell Hall had what can only be described as an annus horribilis while writing What Fire Brings, which was published on June 11, 2024. Her father, both her in-laws, and her dog all passed away...
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Two Sherlockians and a Former Journo Walk into a Zoom Call…
Nancie Clare Les is definitely driving this bus. Leslie Klinger Nick and I have been friends for a long, long time. I met him back in The Seven-Per-Cent-Solution days, a really exciting times for...
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Attica Locke: That’s a Wrap
As if gazing into a crystal ball—and through the prism of Ranger Darren Mathews’ battle against The Brotherhood’s murderous reign—Attica foresaw how the political climate would embolden white supremacy...
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia Writes a Hollywood Story of Biblical Proportions
When it comes to juicy source material for crime fiction, you can’t go wrong with the Bible. It’s got betrayal, duplicity, incest, political intrigue, racism and murder both mass and singular. And this...
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Danielle Trussoni on Mystery, Thrillers, and the Puzzle of Existence
Readers can be forgiven if they think after reading The Puzzle Box—and its predecessor The Puzzle Master—that Danielle Trussoni is puzzle obsessed. She’s not. What drives her fiction, though, is the...
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