Why do we mystery readers read the next line? Turn to the next page? Some writers have the knack of persuading us–for example, Tony...

Texas mystery author Terry Shames’ latest book, Murder at the Jubilee Rally, has been reviewed on ABC News. To use a folksy phrase—Folks,...

by Renee Kimball “The moment I decided to leave him, the moment I thought, enough, we were thirty-thousand feet above the ocean, hurtling...

by Helen Currie Foster “Tell me a story,” begs the child. “Tell me a story about before you met me,” the lover entreats the loved one....

Written by Renee Kimball “From the start . . . I felt that the best fiction was both propulsive and assaultive. It gets in your face....

It happened again. An author killed off a character I love. I hate that. I hate the author. I continue to like the book, but the author I...

by Helen Currie Foster In her 2001 collection Rereadings, Anne Fadiman challenged writers to revisit books they read before they were...