As society’s understanding and acceptance of mental health disorders continues to grow, is it time for crime writers to retire the trope of mentally ill murderers? From alcoholic detectives to homicidal murderers and victims with amnesia, crime fiction is a genre full...
In a genre dominated by female readers and writers, why are dead women and girls still at the heart of the story? Edgar Allen Poe famously wrote: “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” As most crime readers would...
