"Crime writers are a kind of reflection of ... That she could be an effective problem solver, as women are in reality but not very often in fiction or on the screen. And that who she was sexually ...

Fed up with faceless women being killed and mutilated ... the Staunch Prize has come in for criticism from established writers. Best-selling Scottish crime novelist Val McDermid commented ...

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

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

“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 ...