Many of us know her from her newsletter, Your Weekly Writing Exercise, chock-full of craft tips, writing exercises, and inspiration; or have used her book, Your Book Starts Here, to plot our stories. We’ve benefitted from her W-structure workshop and…
Rachel Howzell Hall’s latest gothic thriller, What Never Happened, has already been making waves as her finest work yet, and it’s no wonder why. Set on Catalina Island, the story follows Coco, the sole survivor of a haunting home invasion…
In the Arkansas of Kelly J. Ford’s third novel, The Hunt, Easter season does not mean pink bows and bunnies. It means bored or needy townspeople seeking a golden egg and prize money. Gossips and greedy sponsors seeking social currency…
In Kelly J. Ford’s gripping Southern noir, Real Bad Things, Jane Mooney returns to her Arkansas hometown after a body that might be the abusive stepfather she confessed to murdering 25 years ago surfaces in a river. The police were…
Acclaimed author Amina Akhtar’s fiercely funny and twisty new thriller, Kismet, is a razor-sharp takedown of Sedona’s crystal-hugging wellness community. It’s also the thought-provoking story of Ronnie Khan: a young, self-effacing Pakistani-American woman who follows her seemingly perfect best friend,…
Litani, the newest release from acclaimed crime novelist Jess Lourey, explores the darkness at the heart of the rural Midwest in a novel inspired by a chilling true crime. In the summer of 1984, fourteen-year-old Frankie Jubilee, the protagonist of…