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Category Archives: Thrillers
“Forgotten Women” (by Kevin Mims)
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began keeping us inside, readers have been seeking alternatives to in-store browsing for their literary needs. Essayist, short-story writer, and prolific reader Kevin Mims (who has written for this blog many times on the subject of … Continue reading
Posted in Bookshops, Characters, Guest, History, Pop Culture, Story, Thrillers
Tagged bestseller, historical, history, kevin mims, mass market, paperback, pop, pop culture, pulp, thriller
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“Predicting a Pandemic” (by Kevin Mims)
Last week on this site I expressed the opinion that most readers are not yet ready to read stories about COVID-19 for entertainment. But as Kevin Mims notes in the following essay, a number of publications, including the New York … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Characters, Criticism, Fiction, Genre, Guest, History, Suspense, Thrillers
Tagged history, kevin mims, literature, pandemic, pandemic lit, paperback, pulp, suspense, thriller
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“Great Beginnings” (by Sheila Kohler)
Sheila Kohler’s work has been appearing in EQMM for a number of years. The distinguished novelist’s books include Dreaming for Freud, Becoming Jane Eyre, Cracks, which was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and made into a movie starring Eva Green, … Continue reading
“The Secret Lagoon” (by Josh Pachter)
Josh Pachter’s story “The Secret Lagoon” appears in EQMM’s current issue (September/October 2019). Readers are often curious not only about where authors get their ideas but about how a story comes together. In this post, we get a look at … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Fiction, Guest, International, Thrillers
Tagged characters, crime fiction, iceland, inspiration, josh pachter, mystery, short story, story, travel, writing
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“The Unlikely Ladies of Nineteenth Century Crime Fiction” (by Nancy Novick)
Nancy Novick—a freelance journalist who writes about health, medicine, and the arts—made her fiction debut in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine in the September/October 2018 issue, with “How Does He Die This Time?” The story went on to win the 2019 … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Gothic, Guest, History, Suspense, Thrillers, Writers
Tagged crime, dickens, eliza lynn linton, history, little women, louisa may alcott, mystery, nineteenth century, sensation story, short story, thriller, writers, writing
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“Damaged Goods, Great Detective” (by Louisa Luna)
A San Francisco native who now lives in Brooklyn, Louisa Luna is the author of four novels. The most recent, Two Girls Down (Doubleday), was released to rave reviews in January of this year. In this post the author discusses … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Characters, Fiction, Guest, Pop Culture, Readers, Thrillers
Tagged domestic suspense, mystery, mystery fiction, noir, P.I., private eye, readers, suspense, thriller, why we read
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“Disasters and Inspirations” by O’Neil De Noux
A contributor to EQMM for nearly a quarter of a century, O’Neil De Noux writes primarily in the crime-fiction genre but sometimes ventures into other genres such as science fiction. He is a winner of the Derringer and Shamus Awards, … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Genre, Guest, Historicals, History, Illustration, Magazine, Memorial, Noir, Police Procedurals, Private Eye, review, Setting, Story, Thrillers
Tagged authors, crime fiction, fiction, harvey, history, illustrators, irma, katrina, literature, louisiana, mystery, new orleans, noir, south
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“The Trials of Writing at 65 MPH” (by M.C. Lee)
Fiction writers come from all walks of life, as this post demonstrates. And those who really have it in them to write will often endure many difficulties, even hardships, to make it possible. I’ve known writers who composed all their … Continue reading
A Conversation with Lisa Unger (by Scott Loring Sanders)
This week we have a second installment in a series of interviews with influential crime writers by Scott Loring Sanders. A favorite of EQMM readers, Scott has a new story coming up in the magazine soon. You can learn more … Continue reading
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Tagged crime fiction, crime writer, Interview, lisa unger, mystery, suspense, thriller, writers, writing
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“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
