Monthly Archives: September 2024

The Anthropologist and the Mystery Writer: The Theory of Limited Good (by Sue Parman)

As I mentioned when Sue Parman first posted on this site a month ago, she is an anthropologist by profession. In that post she pointed out how something she learned through her anthropological work turned out to be relevant to mystery … Continue reading

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Murder She, He, I And We Wrote: Changing POV in a Long-Running Series (by Andrew Welsh-Huggins)

A Shamus, Derringer, and ITW Thriller award-nominated fiction writer, Andrew Welsh-Huggins has produced eight novels in a series starring P.I. Andy Hayes. The latest, Sick to Death, releases this month. The Ohio author’s three dozen-plus short stories have appeared in a … Continue reading

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A Glimpse of a Gun Country (by Jim Allyn)

Jim Allyn doesn’t write a lot of fiction, but what he does write is always worth reading. Three of his last four stories for EQMM made best-of-the-year collections: see Best American Mystery Stories 2014 (“Princess Anne”) and 2017 (“The Master … Continue reading

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Unnatural Justice: Where the Occult Meets the Mystery Novel (by Sarah Hilary)

U.K. crime writer Sarah Hilary makes her EQMM debut in our current issue, September/October 2024, with the unforgettable story “Knock-Knock.” She is, of course, no newcomer to the crime scene. Her debut novel, Someone Else’s Skin, won the 2015 Theakston … Continue reading

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