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The Backlist: Revisiting Steven Hamiltonโs โThe Lock Artistโ with Elle Cosimano
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When I started writing crime fiction, what I worried about most was all the stuff you had to know. I had never been a criminal, a detective, a private…
Jesse Q. Sutanto on Toxic Friendships, Shrinking Attention Spans, and Finding the Muse
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As one of the terminally online, I really enjoyed the recent โhow often men think about the Roman Empireโ discourse on Twitter. One response that went viral claimed that…
Shop Talk: Lou Berney Is a Fanatical Believer in Naps
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Lou Berney is one of the reasons I write crime fiction. Coming up, I cut my teeth on Southern writers like Flannery OโConnor, Larry Brown, Harry Crews, and Jesmyn…
When Contemporary Fiction Ages Into the Historical
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I find myself reflecting on my own teen years as I tackle Frankenstein-author Mary Shelley and her step-sister at age sixteen years for my new series, which begins with…
The Western Meets Weird Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion
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Once a narrowly defined genreโset in the American frontier of the 19th Centuryโthe definition of Western has expanded with contemporary takes from such authors as Cormac McCarthy, Ivy Pochoda,…
Five Disturbing Books That Violate Your Sanctuary
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In another life, Iโm sure I was a political assassin or, at the very least, a cold-hearted femme fatale who was on the right end of a gun or…
Note to Self, and Other True Crime Fans:ย These Tragedies Are Real
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The scene couldnโt have been written any better.ย It was the middle of the night and a father bolted upright in bed, hearing noise downstairs in the kitchen of…