Monthly Archives: August 2024

Research Will Save You(r butt) (by Lori-Rader Day)

Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of The Death of Us, Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, and other novels. She lives in Chicago, where she co-chairs the crime fiction readers’ event … Continue reading

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The Anthropologist and the Mystery Writer: The Structure of Secrets (by Sue Parman)

Sue Parman is an anthropologist by profession and her studies include a Gaelic-speaking community in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. She’s also an award-winning poet, short story writer, memoirist, and artist. Recently, she won the Travelers Tales’ Grand Prize for Best … Continue reading

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Old Loves That Keep Us Up: Revisiting Robert B. Parker (by Tom Andes)

Tom Andes has had stories in a variety of literary journals and crime-fiction publications, including Best American Mystery Stories 2012. He also won the 2019 Gold Medal for Best Novel-in-Progress from the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society. A musician as well … Continue reading

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Is it Normal to be Haunted by Ghosts? What Psychoanalysis Has to Tell us About the Mind and Possession (by Robin Kirman)

Robin Kirman is a pychoanalyst as well as a writer and she weaves her interest in psychology into her fiction. Her books include The End of Getting Lost, which Booklist called “… a beautifully written novel.” Her first story for … Continue reading

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If We Rebooted Columbo, Would He Be on TikTok? (by Anna Stolley Persky)

Anna Stolley Persky is a lawyer, journalist, and essayist who recently turned fiction writer. Her first published fiction, “The Jews on Elm Street,” will appear in EQMM’s September/October 2024 issue (on sale August 13 ), in the Department of First … Continue reading

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