Creating a Visceral Sense of Place By Layton Green The Basque Country boasts some of Spain’s most breathtaking scenery and mouth-watering cuisine. It is also, at least within the pages of…
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Why You Should Write What You Love By R.G. Belsky There are authors who write thrillers set in the present-day, authors who write historical thrillers–and then there’s Steve Berry. Berry once again…
Iceland and the New Nordic Noir By J.F.Penn British author Quentin Bates spent 10 years in Iceland and now sets his bestselling Gunnhildur crime thrillers there. His latest book, Thin Ice, is out…
By E.M. Powell “Reader, I Murdered Him” First, a confession. I’m fan of historical fiction as well as a fan of historical thrillers. So when I was presented with a take on…
A Thriller Set In Yemen and the Futility of War By Michael Sears A Canadian by birth, Paul Hardisty has spent 25 years working all over the world as an engineer, hydrologist,…
By Dawn Ius When the Star Wars reboot set box office records with its $238 million release, more than the “force” awakened—the public has expressed renewed interest in space, and it’s spreading throughout the…
By Dawn Ius When the Soviet Union collapsed, there was a general feeling among publishers that with the inevitable wane of espionage, spy fiction must come to an end too. Which was…
By J.F. Penn British author J.S. Law is a former submariner from the Royal Navy and the author of the debut thriller TENACITY, set partially on a nuclear submarine. USA Today bestselling…
By Dawn Ius Is your beloved significant other actually a psychopath? How much should you trust the woman sleeping beside you? Does your child have a dark secret? These are not the…
By James Scott Bell The best thrillers are about more than thrills. They are about how and why a character transforms, becomes a different person, a stronger person, through a confrontation with…
Anne Trager has over a quarter of a century of experience working with the French in translation and publishing. She founded Le French Book, a mystery and thriller publishing house dedicated to…
By Brian Feinblum I began promoting authors and books to the media in 1989, working for a small publisher. I went on to do the same at another independent book publisher. Since…
A Master of Crime Fiction Tells All By David Morrell There are few contemporary authors I respect as much as Lawrence Block, and I’m not the only one who feels that way,…
Who Can You Trust? The Reemergence of the Unreliable Narrator By Dawn Ius From Agatha Christie’s groundbreaking novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd to Daisy Goodwin’s The King Worth Killing, the literary…
By James Scott Bell That’s me, to the right, standing in downtown Los Angeles. Behind me is the Biltmore Hotel, a renowned building for the crime and thriller writers of my city.…
Finding Your Way Back to a Character of Two Decades Ago By John Raab Author Jeff Lindsay created one of the most recognizable characters in pop culture with Dexter, the blood-spatter-pattern analyst for…
Crime Fiction Exploring the Issues of Botswana By Joanne Hichens Michael Stanley is the writing team of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip. Both academics, Michael joined the University of the Witwatersrand in…
From the East End of London to Poland By J. F. Penn Anya Lipska is the critically acclaimed author of the Kiszka & Kershaw crime thriller series, set in the underworld of…
Uncovering the Motivations of Complex Characters By Josie Brown Nuanced in your writing voice. Detailed in your research. Prolific in your output. In this era of publishing, these are the key ingredients…
Delving Deep into the Assassin’s Story By Dawn Ius International bestselling author of more than thirty novels. An insatiable appetite for storytelling. Advocate for literacy. On all accounts, David Baldacci is guilty…
By J. H. Bográn They say writing is a lonely profession. A writer sits in a room with only a computer and imagination. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Once…
When High-Octane Thriller Meets Family Drama By A. J. Colucci Pick up any major newspaper, anywhere in the country, and you’ll find gross miscarriages of justice. Those stories are what drive New…
By Layton Green Buckle up, folks. Our next foray into international crime fiction takes us to the picturesque, enchanted, and (apparently) murderous world of Iceland, with bestselling author Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson. Viktor…
“How Crime Tears People Apart” By E.M. Powell With over 30 million copies of her books sold worldwide, Karin Slaughter clearly knows how to craft an exciting thriller. Yet her new novel,…