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Finding Inspiration for Mystery Fiction in Soap Operas
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What JR, Alexis, and Domingue Taught this Mystery Writer One of the best compliments Iโve received from readers about the Lady Mystery series is that each mystery unfolds like…
James Reich on Indie Publishing, Taking Risks, and the Beauty of Melancholy
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In 2017, I read the novel Patricide, by D. Foy. Itโs a brutal and challenging book, full of ungodly sorrow and heartbreak. Itโs the kind of book you canโt…
How the Intensity of Female Relationships Leaves the Door Open for Horror
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Picture it: Woodstock, Georgia, 1988. Iโm at a sleepover party. Weโre eating pizza and watching The Amityville Horror and probably drinking Ecto Cooler and jumping around on Pogo Balls…
A Murder of Poets: Or, the Inescapable Connections Between Crime Fiction and Poetry
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ย โMurder will outโฆโ โGeoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ย Poetry and pathology. Verse and victim. Meter and murder and mayhem. Poetry and crime fiction seem to go together like,…
90s Horror-Thrillers Created a New Generation of Would-Be Detectives
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For two now-distant decades, horror movies were less about whodunit, and more about how-the-hell-do-they-stop-this-guy? In 1978, Halloween burst onto the scene, followed, two years later, by Friday the 13th….
How Do Cold Case Investigators Identify A Body When DNA Testing Is Not Possible?
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The risk of becoming an unidentified decedent, or a John or Jane Doe, isnโt something most of us will face when we dieโbut it is a possibility, especially for…