As a reader, I have always had one foot firmly in the thriller and mystery genre. I think my earliest conscious foray into mystery novels was when I picked up my first Patricia Cornwell novel – ‘Postmortem’. Personally, I [...]
The heroine usually becomes clear in my head right from the start of a story. It’s easy to focus on them, creating characters we’ll love, in pursuit of their happily ever after. But what about the characters we love [...]
Jess Lea, author of the charming small-town mystery novel, A Curious Woman, delves into what makes a good mystery. As a kid, one of my favourite movies was The Big Sleep (1946), a black-and-white thriller starring Humphrey Bogart and [...]
Every story is better with animals, right? All right, I’m biased. I’m a confirmed Crazy Cat Lady, with a spoiled calico princess and an extended family of step-dogs and cats-in-law. Still, I reckon it’s an objective truth: animal companions [...]
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