In what universe are Tarzan, James Bond, pulp hero Doc Savage and legendary detectives like Sherlock Holmes, Spenser and Lord Peter Wimsey related? In the Wold Newton Universe, and if those words ...

That’s how private detective Lew Archer sums up his investigation into three seemingly unrelated murders near the climax of The Zebra-Striped Hearse, Ross Macdonald’s 1962 classic California crime ...

To date my Crime and the City column has covered 50 cities: 23 European locations, 15 cities in Asia and Australia, five in Africa, five in North America (including the Caribbean), and two cities in ...

Two weeks after Fidel Castro forced Fulgencio Batista from power in 1959, Justin Gleichauf found himself as the one and only employee of the new CIA operation in Miami. Part of the Domestic Contacts ...

When I had the idea to write a novel about coercive control set in a time before anybody knew what it was, I turned to some of my favourite novels for inspiration. While rereading them, making mental ...

I grew up in one of those idyllic New England small towns, adorned with independently owned general stores, spaghetti dinners at the VFW, and snow-covered bed and breakfasts. These towns are places ...

When I put together our big fall preview list a couple of months ago, some readers thought there might be a bit too much ...

Ahhhhh, the holidays. That wonderful time of year when it’s twelve degrees outside, you’re forced to see all those relatives ...

On a winter evening some years ago, in a tiny cottage in North Wales, a friend of a friend said something to me that has ...

The thrill of psychological suspense is in the familiar. Take, for example, that perfect couple living in the fabulous house ...

It is now common to see young women depicted on screen and in books fighting skillfully and killing people—often much bigger ...

Sen tting is a central element to any novel, though within the horror genre, it can also have the wonderfully eerie ability ...