When The Black Echo was published in 1992, it emerged without the usual fanfare that accompanies a major debut. Yet even before the novel quietly won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, crime-fiction critics sensed something different. Here was a writer whose prose straddled the line between classic noir and straight-up literature. At the […]

by John Valeri Patricia Cornwell has been at the forefront of crime fiction’s pioneering authors since initiating the forensics boom with Postmortem in 1990. That book—the first to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards and the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure prize in a single year—introduced iconic sleuth Dr. Kay Scarpetta. A medical […]

A DETECTIVE’S BEST FRIEND: Presenting A Pack of Six Crime Fiction Canines by Dick Lochte Canines are not only humankind’s best friend, but they also star in several mystery novels. Dick Lochte gives us a round up of all fabulous Fidos, in his article A DETECTIVE’S BEST FRIEND: Presenting A Pack of Six Crime Fiction […]