Crime writing pioneers such as Dorothy B ... grisly and forensic depictions of the nature of violence. Today female writers saturate the thriller market, with JK Rowling joining Sophie Hannah ...

Marie Benedict does. In “The Queens of Crime,” Benedict imagines that five of the female greats of the era, fighting a ...

One of the first Black female authors in the crime and mystery genre, Eleanor Taylor Bland was a groundbreaking writer. Her series featuring the detective Marti MacAlister, starting with “Dead ...

When reading a brief news article a few years ago, local author Denise Forsythe learned about a rare occurrence in the ...

In January, writer Bridget Lawless launched the ... with surveys putting the female readership of crime fiction at around 60-80%,” says Eades. Pritchard-McLean underlines it: “The audiences ...

“Laura Lippman’s contributions to the mystery genre as a writer, a teacher and a role model for aspiring writers — especially women writers ... the "essential” crime writers of ...

Marie Benedict found her calling writing novels that unearth the seldom-known stories of history’s amazing women. The ...

Kinn McIntosh did not care to venture far from home, once observing that “an intimate knowledge of the same English village for over half a century has provided all that this crime writer has ...