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Category Archives: Setting
“When Location Prompts a Staycation” (by Pat H. Broeske)
A California native, Pat Broeske has worked as a producer on reality-based, true-crime TV shows. She is also a veteran journalist and has coauthored two book-length biographies: the best-selling Howard Hughes: The Untold Story and Down at the End of … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Books, Characters, Fiction, Guest, Private Eye, Setting, Story, Writers, Writing
Tagged california, los angeles, mystery, private eye, socal, thriller, writers, writing
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“My Favorite Murderers” (by Graydon Miller)
Graydon Miller was an American expatriate in Mexico for nine years, at the start of his writing career. He was first published not in English but in Spanish, with “Un invierno en el infierno” (“A Winter in Hell”). Some of … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Guest, History, Real Crime, Setting, Story, Writers, Writing
Tagged crime, journalism, mexico, murder, true crime, writers, writing
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“The Mysterious Face in the Cloud” by E. Gabriel Flores
The most recent winner of the Robert L. Fish Award for best short story by a new American author, E. Gabriel Flores did a post for this site in April, and she’s back this month with a post about a … Continue reading
“Morgue Attendance and the Hair in the Chimney” (by E. Gabriel Flores)
E. Gabriel Flores is a geography professor who has recently begun another career as a crime writer. Her first published fiction, “The Truth of the Moment,” appeared in EQMM’s December 2016 issue, in the Department of First Stories, and was … Continue reading
“When Bob’s Your Uncle” (by G.M. Malliet)
G.M. Malliet is an American, but she favors England, where she lived for several years, as a setting for her fiction. Her debut novel, which appeared in 2008 and introduced series character DCI Arthur St. Just, won an Agatha Award … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fiction, Genre, Guest, International, Setting, Translation, Writers, Writing
Tagged british, classic mystery, crime, england, mystery, novel, setting, story, united kingdom, writers, writing
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The Mysterious Secret Lost Reason For This Title (Buried Inside The Following Post!) (by Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch is a winner not only of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine’s Readers Award but of the comparable award given by our sister publication Asimov’s Science Fiction. Mystery and science fiction are not the only genres in which she … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Business, Editing, Fiction, Genre, Guest, Historicals, Novels, Publishing, Readers, Setting, Story, Writers, Writing
Tagged bookshops, genre, historical, mystery, romance, science fiction, sf, writer, writing
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“Writing a New Series” (by Dave Zeltserman)
Dave Zeltserman is the author of the Julius Katz mystery series, which began in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and has won the Shamus and multiple EQMM Readers Awards. Its next entry, “Archie on Loan,” will appear in EQMM’s 75th-anniversary issue (September/October … Continue reading
“The Role of Place in Creating Suspense” (by Sheila Kohler)
Sheila Kohler is the author of fourteen books, and the winner of the Willa Cather Award and two O. Henry Prizes for her fiction. Born and raised in South Africa, she has lived in the U.S. for many years and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Characters, Editing, Fiction, Genre, Guest, History, International, Setting, Story, Suspense, Writers, Writing
Tagged character, crime, crime and punishment, dostoevsky, history, location, novelist, russia, setting, suspense, writer
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“Fleshing Out Mysteries” by Sharon Hunt
Sharon Hunt’s short stories had already appeared in a variety of literary magazines before her EQMM debut in August 2015 with “The Water Was Rising.” That story is currently nominated in the best-short-story category for Canada’s most prestigious award for … Continue reading
“Ballet, Law, and Mystery” (by V.S. Kemanis)
V.S. Kemanis’s first story for EQMM appeared in our September/October 2013 issue. At that time she was already the author of many published short stories and the first novel in her Dana Hargrove legal-mystery series had appeared to strong reviews. … Continue reading
