Month: January 2020

Road Trips to Die For There’s something about a road trip that lends itself to murder. Perhaps it’s because being stuck in a car with your nearest and dearest can turn anyone into a homicidal […]

A Sense of Place: Raymond Chandler, Sherlock Holmes, and Spies Coming in From the Cold Of course, crime fiction is about good ideas: who did it? The butler did it, they all did it, the […]

Why You Read a Book Twice There’s nothing like cracking the spine of a new book, having no idea what happens next. But we all have favorite books, too. The ones that are falling apart […]

The Top Twelve Mystery Novels of 2019 We seem to be inundated with domestic suspense novels these days—I guess we have to blame Gone Girl for that (depending on your tastes). In this imaginative departure a crucial […]

Top Ten New England Suspense Novels I’m from New England, and something about the combination of landscape—craggy coastlines, blue-blood cities, university towns, and country roads winding into dark forests, and history—witch trials, whaling ships, the […]

Research Fun! (Are crime writers armchair adventurers or do they take their research so seriously to the point of getting hurt? Bestselling author Allison Brennan shows us that research is not all cocoa and cozy […]

Ten of the World’s Most Enticing Borders Borders have always fascinated me. With just one step, you can cross culture, language, food, politics and much more.  Some are tense. Some are awash with welcome. Sometimes, […]