Month: January 2026

By Elizabeth Heider Whenever I get discouraged about life, my friend Christine quotes the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard at me: “life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” This is both […]

by Linda Joffe Hull and Keir Graff, AKA Linda Keir A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins. The tagline is still instantly recognizable to film fans, even though it’s been three decades since […]

by Biba Pearce Noir has always been about shadows—the ones cast by streetlights on a rain-slicked pavement, the ones lurking in alleyways, and most importantly, the ones inside the human soul. It’s a genre built […]

At the end of Detective Aunty, Kausar Khan is finally ready to look into her youngest son Ali’s tragic death, which occurred over eighteen years ago. I knew that unravelling the truth behind what happened […]

by Jenna Blum  That’s what I’ve always thought about thriller world. I’ve never written mysteries or thrillers–probably because I didn’t read them. I tried for years, starting with my mom’s Agatha  Christies and Alan Fursts. […]