Month: May 2025

Leonard Goldberg Introduction to Deadly Memories Deadly Memories was a novel just past its first draft when I put it aside in 2015. It centered around Joanna Blalock, a super sleuth-forensic pathologist at Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles, […]

by Ben Guterson I’ve been a lifelong fan of stories that include mysterious locales, secret objects, peculiar or magical occurrences, and puzzles, puzzles, and more puzzles. The ten books listed below feature these elements and […]

A guest post by Peter Rosch If we met for the first time today, there’s a better than average chance that after our interaction, you’d walk away thinking, “that’s one happy guy.” I’m not saying […]

By Jaclyn Goldis My favorite murder mysteries, hands down, are those that eschew the more known-to-me destinations of American metropolises in favor of exotic international locales. In my opinion, setting factors significantly into the enjoyment […]

Hill discusses the leap from poetry to prose, the challenge of marrying poetic beauty with plot momentum, her use of porch-gossip vignettes inspired by Greek tragedy, and the surprising thriller twist that reshaped her entire […]

Michael McGarrity www.michaelmcgarrity.com I’m definitely not a fan of labels, and as a writer I dislike the categories novelists get stuck in. Is it hardboiled or noir? A cozy or a police procedural? A Western […]

By Ryan Pote When I started writing thrillers, I reflected on the genre, and what I could bring to the table. Realism and authenticity were at the forefront. But those are relative terms. They can […]

By Lisa Black I wasn’t intending to. Cults can be controversial —a condition I avoid like Ebola—since one person’s cult is another’s life belief. They can be amorphous, largely hidden, misjudged, misrepresented. And as a […]

Kerry Cullen I started writing a character with OCD in July 2018. For over a year, I’d been plagued by graphic intrusive thoughts about doing horrible things to people I loved, or innocent strangers, or […]

JL Cordonnier Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once put it, “Crime is common, logic is rare.” Murder has existed ever since Cain killed Abel countless years ago. The art of solving crime, compared to that long […]