“You mean I’m not perfect?” Celebrate those idiosyncrasies in your favorite sleuths… The “Defective Detective” trope in fiction and media is often viewed negatively. Some readers believe it does a disservice to normalizing mental illness, and many feel it might add to the stigma surrounding sufferers. Below are five detectives whose mental illness acts not […]
Review of the Week: The Ways of Wolfe: A Border Noir By James Carlos Blake Mysterious Press 2017 $25.00 Fans of Rex Stout should be forewarned: this book is not about the legendary orchid-loving detective who weighed one-seventh of a ton. Instead, this book is part of a family saga (the earlier books are as, […]
Ten Funny Moments from Mysteries, Novels, and Much More On paper, the idea of a brutal murder or two doesn’t exactly sound like a laugh riot. But there’s a Joss Whedon quote that gets thrown around the Internet a lot these days: “Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the […]