CrimeReads

I have to say, I don’t know that I’ve ever done a double-take so fast as when I saw the words “Disney World” and “heist” together in a headline.

Those are two very powerful terms! Each word alone would get me to click on an article right away. But together??? My mind started to race. HAVE there been any heists in Disney World? How could ...

In my new domestic suspense, A Neighbor’s Guide to Murder, Pixie, our troubled Gen Z protagonist, has a peculiar compulsion. Despite having no available funds, she likes to waste estate agents’ time by viewing posh mansion block rentals in the smarter parts of London, d...

Zucker and Blum

In June 1895, the New York papers featured the sensational news of an “organized gang” who had been setting fires in Manhattan and Brooklyn, netting over $200,000 from insurance companies. The members of this “Firebug Brotherhood” were said to range from the “plain crook to the rich fire fiend.”

Soon arrested ...

There’s something comforting about diving into a book that really doubles down on a trope, providing something so familiar that even if it’s frightening, there’s a sense that you got this, and you have the armor and the tools to survive to the end. It’s why we often return to certain books, films, and video games that wouldn’t ever really qualify as “feel good.”

Just a...

I have only ever written anti-heroines as main characters. Many years ago I remember reading several pieces interviewing Gillian Flynn in the wake of critiques of her third novel