When people first meet authors, they always ask the same question—how did you get started in this business? I’m a bit a rarity. Wrote my first novel at seventeen, sold it at twenty, hit the bestsel…| CrimeReads
Recently, a friend and fellow writer asked me to give him some advice for how to write a mystery novel. I offered him craft books and a template that I use to teach my own classes before catching m…| CrimeReads
I fell in love with Gothic fiction while teaching a night course in Gothic literature at a Midwestern college. It was winter and my drive was long and sometimes treacherous, traversing dimly lit, s…| CrimeReads
During the Golden Age of detective fiction, which spanned the years between the first and second world wars, England’s Maj. Cecil John Charles Street was one of the best-known and most accomplished…| CrimeReads
In Italy, when you wish someone good luck, you say, “In bocca al lupo” which literally means Into the mouth of the Wolf. The standard response is “crepi il lupo!” which translates as, May the Wolf …| CrimeReads
