There is a question that gets asked of women who write crime fiction, sometimes directly and sometimes in the softer form of a compliment that contains a questi…
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The woman on page one of the crime novel is almost always dead.Or if she is not dead, she is missing, which is a form of narrative death — her absence is the va…
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There is a moment in nearly every great crime novel featuring a female detective when the investigator is underestimated. Sometimes the underestimation is expli…
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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…
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 …