True crime is the most consumed nonfiction category in the English-speaking world, and it has been for at least a decade. The podcasts regularly dominate downlo…
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Pace is the one technical element of thriller writing that cannot be faked.A literary novel can sustain itself on the quality of its sentences through passages …
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Noir is not a genre. It is a temperature.You feel it in the first paragraph of a Raymond Chandler novel before anything has actually happened — in the quality o…
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The closed circle mystery has been declared dead so many times that its continued survival has started to look like a deliberate act of defiance.The formula is …
The question comes up at every panel I have ever sat on, asked with a consistency that tells you it matters to people: how much research did you do?The subtext …