Month: April 2025

 by Virginia Trench And readers are here for it Women are angry. Of course we are — it’s been a rough few years. The #MeToo movement, enduring wage gap, reelection of a sex criminal as […]

Vanessa Westermann When it comes to reading and writing crime fiction, I love a character-driven story. I’m there for the emotional arc, the internal conflict, and the empowerment. I’ll know who I want to write […]

As the frost fades and the days grow longer, there’s no better time to curl up with a gripping mystery, twisty thriller, or dark psychological tale. At The Strand Magazine, we’ve handpicked a list of […]

by Mark Ellis Strand Magazine Classic Historical Crime Fiction I write historical crime fiction and unsurprisingly this is a genre I particularly love. Below is my choice of ten brilliant examples of the genre. To […]

Andrew Welsh-Huggins It’s one of the most frequently asked questions of writers, right after, “Where do you get your ideas?”: “What are you reading? Who are your favorite authors?” Not far behind this query is […]

(Plus one that’s basically Soviet history in pointe shoes) By Nina Laurin I’ve been fascinated by ballet and the world of dance for my entire life. Like any erstwhile small Eastern European child, I once […]

By Sue Hincenbergs Author of The Retirement Plan It’s fair to say that, if we were asked to speculate about how our moms spend their days, most likely we wouldn’t conjure up images of them […]

By Rachel Paris As viewers worldwide grieve the end of the latest season of The White Lotus, I’ve pondered what exactly it is about murder mysteries—and Mike White’s HBO dramedy in particular—that has captured our […]

by Erin Bledsoe In Mob Queen, we follow Virginia’s rise from the slums of Chicago to the highest tiers of organized crime, a rare feat for a woman, but not a unique one. History is […]