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The Strand Magazine
Emma Stonex, The Sunshine Man What It Takes to Write a Killer with Depth and a Victim with Agency Is a person ever a hundred percent evil? It’s a question that has long troubled humanity, […]
Month: September 2025
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Q&A with J.J. Viertel – The Glass Eel
Father-and-son writing team Jack and Josh Viertel collaborated on The Glass Eel, a crime thriller set against the rugged and contradictory beauty of Maine. Drawing on their time spent in Hancock County, their novel combines […]
Interviews
An Interview with William Boyd on The Predicament
In his latest novel The Predicament, William Boyd returns to the Cold War with the reluctant spy Gabriel Dax. Moving from the streets of Guatemala to Berlin, Boyd blends history, espionage, and the human condition […]
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When Teen Detectives Grow Up: Writing Adult Mystery with YA Roots
Tom Ryan When I was a kid, I spent a week in the tiny children’s ward of my small hometown hospital. In the corner of the room was a large bookshelf lined with Hardy Boys […]
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Getting Fantasy Chocolate in the Mystery Peanut Butter
by Keith R.A. DeCandido One of the things I love about the speculative fiction genre that encompasses both fantasy and science fiction is that it’s so flexible. That’s because it’s the only subgenre that is […]
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A Question of Murder
Janice Hallett explains how trivia nights and murder mysteries belong together What is the largest desert in the world? Around half the teams at a recent trivia night answered ‘The Sahara’ to the question above, […]