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Cozy Mystery Subgenres: Making the Perfect Blend
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Cozy mystery is a subgenre of crime fiction. When readers ask what are cozy mysteries, I explain theyโre mysteries without on-the-page violence, physical intimacy or naughty words. Thatโs the…
The Regency Mystery Arrives to the Ball
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Iโd wager a box of my favorite tea that youโve heard of Bridgerton by now. Maybe even that itโs that occasionally spicy period drama based upon author Julia Quinnโs…
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,…
How a Trip to a Museum Turned into the Perfect Start to a Mystery
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School field trips. Exhibitions. Guided tours. It might be easy to dismiss museums as stuffy or even boring, but they are far from thatโespecially to an aspiring crime writer…