WomenOfMystery

Top Ten Quotes from Writers I’ve lived in France for twenty years and when I tell people that I’m a writer, they often gasp in awe and say that I must be so terribly inspired […]

The Dark Side of the Human Psyche Write what you know, they say. It’s good advice that I sometimes wish I followed better. My current series features co-protagonists: Tai, my gun-shop-owning narrator, and Trey, her […]

Bringing Back Gothic Mysteries To New Readers One of the interesting things about being a writer is reading a fabulous book, finishing it, and thinking, “Why did that work on such a visceral level? What […]

Top Five Female Detectives The mystery genre is filled with interesting sub-genres: domestic suspense, spy thriller, political thriller, noir, cozy, legal thriller, supernatural thriller, romantic suspense. But procedurals, populated with amateur and professional sleuths, may […]

Are You Really Who You Write? Is that really you? When you write historical fiction, how much of the contemporary writer goes into a protagonist who lives in another era? And why do you want […]

10 Settings to Give you the Creeps Call me a thrill seeker, but there’s nothing better than a great book with a creepy setting that compels you to turn the page, even when all you […]

Six of the Best Sidekicks in the Detective Business… Where there’s mystery there’s a sidekick. Most of these can be described with the hyphenated long-suffering. In fact, that’s probably the main prerequisite for becoming a fictional […]