Let the Afterlife have Central Air and Hot Women: A Review of Scorched Grace By Margot Douaihy Anne Laughlin Reviews January 30, 2023 3 min readWhat do you get when you mix a poetic writer with the mystery genre? More metaphors than you can shake...
Read This! Excerpt of The Savage Kind – John Copenhaver’s New Thriller Samihah Sirajul-Islam FeaturesExcerpts October 14, 2021 7 min readTwo teenage girls in 1940s Washington, DC, become unlikely friends and unravel a dark mystery in The Savage Kind by John Copenhaver. Read More
Robyn Gigl’s By Way of Sorrow Gives New Life (and a New Face) to the Legal Thriller John Copenhaver Reviews May 5, 2021 2 min readRepresentation in any genre is essential. Diverse voices can enliven and refresh well-worn genre territory, such as the legal thriller,...
Blackout is a Loving Homage to American Crime Dramas John Copenhaver Reviews March 23, 2021 2 min readTried and true crime narratives sing when offered to the reader from the perspectives of traditionally underrepresented characters. Blackout, Marco...
Watch Her is a Standout Mystery and a Twisted Family Drama John Copenhaver Fiction March 2, 2021 2 min readF. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote “Character is plot, plot is character,” implying that to create successful fiction, these elements must...
C.S. Poe and Gregory Ashe Discuss Co-Authoring a Crime Novel John Copenhaver author interviews January 23, 2021 8 min readThere’s this myth about the lone writer (often tortured, often male, often straight) hammering away at his Smith Corona typewriter,...
The Unmasking Pushes the Boundaries of Convention Anne Laughlin Reviews January 7, 2021 2 min readThere are numerous and quite specific sub-genres in mystery writing: police procedurals, mysteries featuring cats, cozy mysteries, psychological suspense. You...
The Watcher Balances a Noir Sensibility With a Sensitive Portrait of a Young Gay Man John Copenhaver Reviews November 4, 2020 2 min readIt’s not unusual for LGBTQ+ people to play caretaker or fixer roles in their families—and of course, the irony is...
Fire on the Island is a Heartfelt Portrait of a Greek Island Community John Copenhaver Reviews September 18, 2020 2 min readAs we shelter in our homes from the pandemic, the heat, the fires (if you are in California), mourning our...
Bisexual Private Investigator Roxane Weary Returns in Once You Go This Far Anne Laughlin Reviews July 31, 2020 4 min readIt’s some kind of genius to give a private investigator the last name of Weary. It fits so snugly with...
