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(Un)Safe Harbor: Thrillers Set in Remote Island Locations
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I have spent a lot of summer weekends on an island in Lake Huronโs Georgian Bay. Itโs a beautiful, wild, windswept place that can, as Gull Island does in…
An Appreciation of Gardening Detectives
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Gardening detectives, both professional and amateur, abound in crime fiction and they appeared early on. Wilkie Collins introduced the first horticulturally inclined investigator in The Moonstone. The serialized story…
Cozy Mysteries with Furry Sidekicks
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I have a confession to make. I have a mad crush on my neighbor. Whenever I see him sprinting in my direction, my heart swells and I canโt hold…
7 Crime Novels Set in Sin City
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Like many of my books, it started with a seed of an idea: a businessman wakes up in a hotel room that isnโt his to find a dead woman…
Writing a Domestic Survival Thriller
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Iโve always been obsessed with survival storiesโpeople braving the elements, or out-scheming malevolent captors or striving to survive the end of the world. The apocalyptic trope might be my…
On Crime and Its Discontents
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The first crime was the most defining moment in the history of the human. It was not Cainโs murder. That was defining too. But the first crime began in…
Celebrating the Iconic Suspense of Lois Duncan
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I still own three of Lois Duncanโs books. Growing up, I read so many, but these are the three I have left: Daughters of Eve, Stranger with My Face,…