First we read Nancy Drew, girl detective. Then what? Women of Mystery explores the writing lives of three authors (Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton & Marcia Muller) who started a literary revolution and, in ...

In honor of Black History Month, a collective of acclaimed crime fiction authors will unite for a free community event on Saturday, February 21 at LORE Leimert Park that will be hosted by USA Today ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Detective fiction is a creative sub-genre of crime and ...

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Near the bottom of a list of things crime fiction writer Raymond Chandler hated is that ubiquitous Los Angeles demographic: “actors.” The list, simply titled “THINGS I HATE,” is one of dozens of ...

The prolific and multi-talented Anthony Horowitz is back with a very readable third novel featuring the full-time professional editor and part-time amateur sleuth Susan Ryeland and the legendary ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Kate Flora is the author of 28 books across crime fiction, true crime, memoir and nonfiction. She has two new stand-alone books: a domestic suspense in “Teach Her a Lesson,” and ...

Penguin Books, First Thus edition, 2014. Author Georges Simenon, 1969. MASTERPIECE on PBS aired an exciting new adaptation of author Georges Simenon’s iconic Maigret stories, bringing the legendary ...

“The writer and detective are interchangeable,” says the novelist Daniel Quinn in Paul Auster’s City of Glass, the 1985 novella that would form part of his break through 1987 work The New York Trilogy ...

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Mystery writers have questions. These former crime fighters have answers. A Facebook group started by a retired Milwaukee police sergeant has become a valued resource for scribes hoping to avoid ...

LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Thinking about killing someone and can't figure out how to finish the job and make crime pay? It's the kind of stuff that keeps crime fiction writers awake at night. If the ...