espionage thrillers

Chaos and Tumult as Fuel for Fiction

By Tom Bradby

September 19, 2022

Ten novels—and more than a few screenplays—into my writing career, an interview question rather took me by surprise the other day. What prompts you, I was asked, to open your computer and start writing a new story? Is it the characters, the setting, the politics, the moment in time? And I thought; hell, yes, what…

Spinsters and Spies: My Favorite Older Women in Crime Fiction

By Deanna Raybourn

September 7, 2022

Crime fiction is kinder than most genres to older women. Where they can be a little harder to find in other genres, mysteries and thrillers like to give the woman of mature years some time in the spotlight. She may be a sleuth or—less common but perhaps more interesting—a villain. Either way, the woman over…