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Why Is the Pacific Northwest a Crime Writers’ Paradise? Seven Authors Weigh In

May 11, 2026 Mystery Center 0

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 […]

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Grabtown by Sarah P. Blanchard — Review

May 11, 2026 Mystery Center 0

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 […]

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The Legacy of Nancy Drew

May 11, 2026 Mystery Center 0

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 […]

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How Much Research Should You Do When Writing Historical Fiction?

May 8, 2026 Mystery Center 0

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 […]

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Why We May Have Misunderstood Hitchcock for Decades by Tony Lee Moral

May 7, 2026 Mystery Center 0

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: […]

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From Sofa to Sleuth: How a Clingy Himalayan Inspired a Mystery Series

May 7, 2026 Mystery Center 0

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 […]

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Interview with Tamar Myers

May 7, 2026 Mystery Center 0

You’ve written across very different modes — cozy mystery, comic crime, and novels set in the Belgian Congo. Do you see those as separate parts of your writing life, or as expressions of the same […]

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Manhattan’s Secrets and Scandals

May 5, 2026 Mystery Center 0

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 […]

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Exclusive with Margrét Ann Thors

May 5, 2026 Mystery Center 0

Freyja has such a haunting sense of place. What is it about Iceland’s landscape—especially the black sand beaches and harsh coastline—that made it the right setting for this story?  During my visits to Iceland as a […]

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  • Why Is the Pacific Northwest a Crime Writers’ Paradise? Seven Authors Weigh In
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  • The Legacy of Nancy Drew
  • How Much Research Should You Do When Writing Historical Fiction?
  • Why We May Have Misunderstood Hitchcock for Decades by Tony Lee Moral

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