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For most of the 2010s, cosy crime was the genre everyone in publishing was politely embarrassed by. It still sold steadily — it has always sold steadily — but t…
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The contract that crime fiction makes with its reader is more explicit than almost any other genre's. It is made on the first page, usually in the first paragra…
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 …
Mystery fiction has long thrived on tension, secrecy, and the slow unraveling of truth, but when these elements are placed within the familiar setting of an off…