Zane Grey

Murder, Mystery, and Scandinavia: The Perfect Combination

By Kristen Houghton

December 8, 2016

If you like the setting of your murder mysteries to take place in a cold, snowy climate, you’re not alone. The newest and bloodiest murder mysteries now seem to take place in Scandinavia. There’s something about murder, mystery, and the bitter cold that seem to go together, and it seems that readers have been entertained…

Washburn, Mims, and Foley: Women Authors Leading the Western Charge

By David Cranmer

July 24, 2015

Long before Louis L'Amour, Max Brand, or Zane Grey thought about swinging up into a saddle, women were blazing a trail for the Western story. Even prior to 1902 with Owen Wister’s The Virginian which is widely respected as the novel that put the genre on the map, female authors were far ahead on the…