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The first time I saw Brian Thiem, he was reading from his novel, Red Line, and I was awed. Not[…]
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The first time I saw Brian Thiem, he was reading from his novel, Red Line, and I was awed. Not[…]
Read moreOne could argue that all fiction is autofiction, to a degree. After all, we can only experience the world through[…]
Read moreAward-winning novelist Elizabeth Crowens has kindly stopped by to answer some questions about the Golden Age of Hollywood, Sherlock Holmes[…]
Read moreIt is to my chagrin what whenever I post a photo of my two admittedly adorable Australian Doodles, Seamus and[…]
Read moreLast night I was teaching an Intro to Fiction class on Zoom. It was 9:30 p.m., class winding down, when[…]
Read moreWho said that about whom? Of course, that’s how F. Scott Fitzgerald, through Nick, described Daisy Buchanan’s voice in The[…]
Read moreWhether it’s a bus belching fumes as it rounds a corner, or the sweet scent at the back of a[…]
Read moreHaving a school age kid has meant that my vacations generally rotate around school breaks. As a result, last week[…]
Read moreNo, I’m not writing about college presidents and billionaire wives’ dissertations. I’m writing about plagiarism as plot in some of[…]
Read moreIt is a truth universally (well, maybe generally) acknowledged that romance in a good crime novel must be relegated to a sub plot. If solving the mystery is primary, we’re told, the book is a crime novel. If the outcome of the romance is primary, the book is a romance. Makes sense. But what if the romance is the mystery? What if the romantic relationship between two people creates or solves the crime? Because it’s Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d mention five crime novels where the heart of the plot (pun intended) is romance.
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