What to have and avoid in your story's opening

Posted on 06/17/2020 at 11:17 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The most compelling part of Zara Altair’s post on starting your mystery, for us, might have been the section on...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: First lines and first chapters, Mystery

12 literary estates have a new owner

Posted on 06/04/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A new literary rights group has picked up the estates of some significant classic authors. The Hollywood Reporter says that...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Literature in translation, Movie adaptation, Mystery, TV adaptation

Author Q&A: Susan Wingate

Posted on 06/02/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Today we’re interviewing multigenre author Susan Wingate. Wingate is the #1 Amazon bestseller and award-winning author of The Deer Effect,...

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, Memoir, Mystery, Thriller

Translator finds a story that likely inspired "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"

Posted on 05/18/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Is this blasphemy? The Guardian reports that a translator has stumbled upon the plot twist made so famous in Agatha...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Classic literature, Literature in translation, Mystery, The Guardian

Author Q&A: Joseph Flynn

Posted on 05/07/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Today we’re interviewing Joseph Flynn, author of three hit series: the Jim McGill thrillers, the John Tall Wolf mysteries, and...

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, Mystery, Thriller

It's official: Agatha Christie is the top novelist of all time

Posted on 04/08/2020 at 08:05 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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We admit it: We dropped the ball on celebrating an Agatha Christie milestone earlier this year. February marked one hundred...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: History, Literary Hub, Mystery, Women in literature

Screenwriter Damon Lindelof is writing a serialized mystery novel

Posted on 04/03/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Here’s something to look forward to every day: a serialized mystery novel. Damon Lindelof is releasing a chapter each day...

Categories: Free ebooks

Tagged As: Free reads, Mystery, Pop culture

Free read: “The Secret Lives of Cats”

Posted on 03/31/2020 at 12:52 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Pet owners are spending more time than ever with their four-legged friends. At least for us, that doesn’t mean we...

Tagged As: Free reads, Mystery

Mystery author Barbara Neely dies at age 78

Posted on 03/11/2020 at 02:41 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Barbara Neely, who became a pioneering and award-winning author later in life, died last week at the age of seventy-eight....

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Mystery, Obituary, The New York Times, Women in literature

Georges Simenon's son answers reader questions

Posted on 02/29/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The twentieth century was a wonderful time for mystery fans, no matter what language (or languages) they read in. We...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Mystery, The Guardian