The Lure of a Ghost Story

WHAT PUTS THE THRILL INTO DOMESTIC FICTION?

WHAT PUTS THE THRILL INTO DOMESTIC FICTION? by Nicola Marsh Writing across several genres—women’s fiction, romance and domestic thrillers—can be challenging and a question I’m often asked is ‘what is a domestic thriller?’ For me, it’s women’s fiction with a killer twist…or many. Domestic thrillers are also labelled as domestic suspense, domestic noir and psychological […]

On Friendship as a Source of Intrigue in Fiction

The Writer Inside Me

The Writer Inside Me by Ariel S. Winter Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me (1952) established him as one of the preeminent practitioners of hardboiled crime fiction. A first-person confession of a small town deputy sheriff going on a murder spree, it is a frightening and gripping novel that earned Thompson the sobriquet “Dimestore Dostoevsky.” […]