CrimeReads

Someone hold my beer, ‘cause I can’t hold my tongue

But I can hold one hell of a grudge

–Grudge by Carter Faith

Grudges are as American as jazz and comic books. Often they lead to the ...

Obscuring even as it reveals, a successful suspense story will contain enough twists to keep a reader captivated, but not so many that the book can’t stick the landing. This is a hefty enough task on its own, but some of my favorite mysteries and thrillers are the ones that add another layer of setting, fixation or subculture to this already delicate dance.

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At their deepest levels, fiction writers are nefarious characters.  They’re leading you down a path that will keep you up at night worrying for the fate of your favorite characters, and possibly the world as we know it.

They are, in fact, liars, manipulators, twisters of the truth, hiders of the ball, and experts in the procurement of red herrings. If they are any...

I like my beaches with a side of book, thank you very much, and the cozier the book, the better. The irony in all of this, of course, is that I barely take vacations—I prefer to escape into writing.

But with my most recent release, Murder on Vacation, just launch...

Story/Mood: Shortly after she’s received an award in Switzerland, fashion designer Lina (Isabel Aimé González Solano) jumps off a bridge into an icy cold river. She survives and returns to Buenos Aires where she develops a secret phobia of water and struggles to resume her normal life. Swiss-Argentinian director Milagros Mumenthaler’s The Currents has ...