Month: May 2026

by William Friend When I was a kid, I went through a distinct phase of being obsessed with murder mysteries. Between the ages of eleven and fourteen, I’d regularly shake down the shelves of the […]

 by Grit Laskin C.M., R.C.A. ​By profession I am a Luthier, a maker of stringed musical instruments.  Specifically, I make acoustic guitars and have been doing that full time since 1971.  I also started a […]

by Cindy Brown The Pacific Northwest is the perfect place for murder. We have impenetrable forests, forbidding mountains, and rivers that run fast and cold. We have places so isolated that you could hike for days—weeks, even—without seeing another soul. And […]

Some towns keep secrets. Others bury them. In Grabtown, Sarah P. Blanchard crafts a layered dual-timeline mystery steeped in small-town tension, family trauma, and the dangerous cost of silence. Told through an epistolary framework, the novel […]

By: Vikki VanSickle When I started to work on my first mystery novel, The Mystic and the Missing Girl, I found myself thinking about Nancy Drew—the sleuth who made me fall in love with the […]

by Allan Gaw Author of The Silent House of Sleep No author of historical fiction wants to receive the email that begins, “I think you’ll find…” The correspondent will usually be a self-declared expert who […]

In April 1974, at Philharmonic Hall in New York, Alfred Hitchcock was honoured with a Life Achievement Award by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Inside, the evening unfolded with a kind of old-Hollywood grandeur: […]

by Amanda Sterczyk   Have you ever been asked, or asked of others: “If you could have one superpower, what would it be?” Would it be flight or invisibility, super speed or walking through walls? All […]

By Jocelyn Green The Manhattan Confessions was not the original working title of my latest novel. But when we (my publisher’s team and I) landed on it, we knew it was a keeper. Confessions. That […]