Fictionally speaking, Ohio apparently is an appealing place to knock off a neighbor or friend. "We have very urban areas and very rural areas, along with forests and fields and hills and a Great Lake ...

If you saw the season-ending episode of The Mentalist, do you remember the clue that helped catch the killer? Me, neither. In the movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, what was the mistake Ryan ...

Readers visiting from Mars would assume that only white folks were murdered, solved crimes, righted wrongs, and fell in love with no-goodniks with shady pasts or dames with hearts of gold. The mystery ...

Explore the mysteries of fictional and real worlds with four Los Angeles writers who pay homage to giants of the genre while creating stories that are irresistible in their own right. “The Murder of ...

To learn more about the elements of great mystery architecture, Vulture asked eight masters of the form to anatomize their thinking, from the most conceptual level down to the technical details. None ...

The hundreds of guests attending the Mystery Writers of America's 77th Edgar Awards Banquet at Manhattan's Marriott Marquis hotel last night rose to their feet twice to give standing ovations, ...

Minneapolis — If you read mysteries, you might think most Minnesotans are either murder victims or suspects. The Land o 'Lakes also is the Land o' Mystery Authors, with dozens of Minnesota-set or ...

The act of writing is deservedly seen as a puzzling and even mysterious creative process. Writers are frequently asked where their ideas came from, with their answers not at all clear. Ideas for books ...

She was known for two book series centered on complex female characters, and for stories that illuminated her native North Carolina. By Neil Genzlinger Margaret Maron, whose crime fiction, much of it ...