A Blog for Readers and Writers of Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction
Locked room mysteries are awesome because they usually present the environment as an oppositional adversary. It’s easy to imagine oneself trapped with a killer, and how delicious to burrow under a blanket and know you’re safe, while reading about people who most certainly aren’t.
So, here are three locked room mysteries I’ve read lately that are chilling, thrilling, and all around awesome.
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I was thrilled to sit down (remotely!) with M. K. Graff and get an inside look at the fifth installment in the Nora Tierney books. Here’s what she had to say.
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I recently spent a long weekend binge-watching horror movies/series. After several hours of corpses, missing people, and mysterious figures hiding[…]
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Almost two decades ago, best-selling crime writer and one of New England Crime Bake founding mothers, Hallie Ephron urged me[…]
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This year, for the first time, I’m doing NaNoWriMo–National November Writing Month. Well, “doing” is probably a bit of an overstatement. To date I’ve written exactly 2,403 words. No medals for me. Am I doomed to failure?
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In no particular order: The Mirror Crackâd from Side to Side (1992) When Hollywood star Marina Greg returns to England[…]
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I’m always curious about everybody’s traditions, so I asked the Miss Demeanors about their Thanksgiving ones.
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Do you believe in love at first sight? I do, because it happened to me. Some time ago.
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