Interview with Louise Penny (Excerpts) For the past forty years or so, crime fiction has taken a dark turn. The hallmarks of the blockbuster genre novel have become sex, violence, gore, and the musings of pathological minds. One author who has successfully bucked this trend, reaching No. 1 on the New York Times bestsellers list […]
Book Review: The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe The surest proof that something has become a genuine part of the popular culture is when it can be parodied. How many fictional characters of the twenty-first century (strictly from books, not from television or movies) are sufficiently recognizable to the average person that a good-natured riff […]
Detectives and Their Food By Carla Neggers You are what you eat, or so the saying goes, but is that true for our favorite fictional detectives? Does their food reveal character or create character? After all, even a detective hot on the trail of a determined killer has to eat. For some, food is merely […]