POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS

John R. Lindermuth, Guest Blogger I spent most of my working life on small-town newspapers, covering most every reporting beat and in se...

by Sheila Connolly On my return trip from the recent writers conference Malice Domestic, I spent a day prowling around Philadelphia, doi...

Elizabeth Zelvin Somerset Maugham said, “There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” Similarl...

by Sandra Parshall Crime fiction writers throw around words like psychotic and sociopath a lot, although we often seem to need reassurance t...

Sharon Wildwind Last week I blogged about liquid networks, serendipity, and slow hunches, three of the six qualities that Steven Johns...

by Julia Buckley The closest I ever got to a child pageant was way back in 1970, when I was six years old, and my mother took my sist...

Interviewed by Sandra Parshall Katherine Hall Page is a former teacher who tried mystery writing when her husband’s sabbatical took the fa...

by Sheila Connolly Twenty years ago, I signed up as a volunteer for a U.S. senatorial campaign in Pennsylvania. The candidate was a woman,...

Liz Zelvin All my life I’ve been what a friend calls a “Renaissance soul” (nonsexist language for what used to be “Renaissance man”): inte...

Today's guest blogger, Jon Jefferson, is the “Jefferson” half of the crime fiction duo Jefferson Bass. Working in collaboration with Dr...