Hugh Addison

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  • Anjili Babbar On The Rise of Irish Crime Fiction

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    Molly Odintz

    I met Anjili Babbar smoking cigarettes at Bouchercon last year (she has since quit), and thought, this chick is really cool. And also, she knows a lot about Irish crime fiction. Babbar is, in fact, the author of an excellent new work on Irish crime writing, aptly titled Finders: Justice, Faith and Identity in Irish…

  • Six Books Featuring Ghosts with Unfinished Business

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    Meredith R. Lyons

    What’s a character without motivation? Even if that character is dead, they need a reason to be in the scene. In my novel Ghost Tamer, one of the ghosts tells the main character, “Everyone who dies had plans, Raely.” Whether it’s revenge, righting an injustice, or protecting a loved one, unfinished business is a common…

  • Queer Crime Fiction Coming Out This Fall

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    Queer Crime Writers

    With the exuberance of Pride Month in June, it’s easy to get excited about new queer crime fiction in the summer months. But, with shortening days, ubiquitous Pumpkin Spice lattes, and of course, Halloween—arguably the queerest holiday of the year—the fall is the perfect time to pick up a mystery or thriller exploring the complex…

  • The Enduring Appeal of the Christiesque ‘Closed Circle’ Crime

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    Cara Hunter

    The first crime novels I ever read were by Agatha Christie. I was probably about thirteen at the time and I remember being blown away by how clever she was. The way she could hide her killers in plain sight, or contrive a plot as deviously intricate as Murder on the Orient Express, or manipulate…

  • Murder Ballads, the Original True Crime

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    Janet Beard

    It’s hard to spend much time online these days without bumping into true crime of one form or another. Countless podcasts examine murders and trials, and television offers an overwhelming array of both docuseries and fictional reenactments. Meanwhile on social media, influencers create content about sensational crimes in almost real-time, as investigations are unfolding. Even…

  • When Characters Fake Their Own Deaths

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    Manning Wolfe

    Pseudocide, or faking one’s own death, offers a tantalizing escape from reality, and the possibility of starting fresh. There’s something thrilling about the idea of disappearing and starting over, leaving behind all the problems and complications of our old lives. The concept of pseudocide has been around for centuries, with the first known story dating…

  • Native American Literature: Tribes and Tribulations

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    Deborah J. Ledford

    For Redemption, the first book of my new Native American suspense thriller series, I feature the Taos Pueblo Reservation, located in northern New Mexico—a Native tribe that relies on the verbal art of storytelling to keep their culture alive. As a part Eastern Band Cherokee writer, it can be a tightrope dance deciding what to…

  • Jason Voorhees: Neurodivergent Icon?

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    Mark Wheaton

    I was working the day that it happened, preparing meals. Jason should’ve been watched every minute! He was … he wasn’t a very good swimmer. —Pamela Voorhees, Friday the 13th What would he be like today? An out-of-control psychopath? A frightened retard? A child trapped in a man’s body? —Friday the 13th Part 2 He…

  • The Freudian Gothic Fiction of Ira Levin

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    James Reich

    On the eve of Hallowe’en, 1980, Dick Cavett’s television guests included Stephen King, George Romero, and Peter Straub. Watching it now, King is the most voluble, playing the open-shirted raconteur, stage right, closer to the audience than the others in several senses. He is alert to the chance to promote Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining,…

  • Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place, and the Birth of the Modern Serial Killer Novel

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    Laura Picklesimer

    Published in 1947, Dorothy Hughes’ noir novel In a Lonely Place is a masterpiece of crime fiction whose influence has extended to both books and films, including a 1950 movie adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart. The story follows a mercurial and mysterious lead, Dix Steele, who is many things: Los Angeles dreamer, war veteran, aspiring crime…

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