The glory of the historical mystery is in recreating a time and place both familiar and new. Too often (for me, at least), I find the details in historical fiction maddening and anachronistic, a result of superficial research or the easy belief in old tropes about a period. Happily, William Shaw has avoided these…
Suzy Spencer is the author of the book Breaking Point, which deals with the case of Andrea Yates—the woman who drowned all five of her children in 2001, just three months before September 11th, leading to an insanity plea that shocked and appalled the nation. She has also written a number of other true crime…
Earlier in December, Anne Charnock—author of Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind—wrote a wonderful blog post about history and family secrets: Real Life Isn't Like the Neatly Rounded Narratives of Fiction At the end of the post, we asked YOU, the readers to put on your thinking caps and ask Anne a few questions. The…
This original blog post by author Anne Charnock is part 1 of a 2 part series including an exclusive Q&A featuring questions from YOU, the readers. To win a copy of Anne's new book Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind, make sure you're signed in, and ask the author a question in the comments section…
In celebration of the release of my new horror novel, Dead Ringers, I reached out to some of my favorite filmmakers to talk about our mutual love of the genre, formative influences, and what the future holds. After his work as director of the hugely successful film adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars,…
One of the world’s foremost authorities on Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger is perhaps best known for The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes. Published by W.W. Norton in 2004, this three-volume project won the 2005 Edgar Award for “Best Critical/Biographical” work. Klinger served as a consultant for the recent films Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A…
CrimeHQ gets a Q&A with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and you get a chance to win the historical adventure he co-authored, Mycroft Holmes! CrimeHQ: There's always more research than can fit into one novel. What did you have to leave out and what was your favorite bit of history to include? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: My co-writer, Anna Waterhouse,…
