If forced to nominate any positives at all out of the last two years of global pandemic, it is the increased time I’ve had to read. In the first year of Covid I made good on a long-standing desire to ...

In the spring of 1961, Georges Lemay, a dapper thirty-six-year-old French Canadian, spent his days holed up in his cottage on a private island on a river in the Laurentian Mountains north of Montreal, ...

The Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2024.

I was born in 1972 into a family of women. We lived in the city and could walk anywhere: to school, to the store, to the huge park across the street, our bare feet burning on soft black asphalt or ...

When I put together our big fall preview list a couple of months ago, some readers thought there might be a bit too much ...

Ahhhhh, the holidays. That wonderful time of year when it’s twelve degrees outside, you’re forced to see all those relatives ...

On a winter evening some years ago, in a tiny cottage in North Wales, a friend of a friend said something to me that has ...

The thrill of psychological suspense is in the familiar. Take, for example, that perfect couple living in the fabulous house ...

It is now common to see young women depicted on screen and in books fighting skillfully and killing people—often much bigger ...

Sen tting is a central element to any novel, though within the horror genre, it can also have the wonderfully eerie ability ...

The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes. Joe Bell was a man who liked to keep busy. In addition to his hospital and police work, ...

When I first started working on The Haunting of Lavender House, I didn’t set out to write a Croatian gothic novel. But that ...