By ZJ Czupor This author didn't hit her literary stride until late in life. After a successful career as a criminal justice advocate, as the director of a community-based corrections facility in Pennsylvania, as the producer of an award-winning radio show for the University of Massachusetts, and...
By Chris Goff Barbara Graham Français murdered Mabel, a 64-year-old widow, for her valuables. Barbara left empty-handed, though $15K worth of money and jewels were later found in the closet of the room where Mable was murdered. Years ago, when I was just starting out as a mystery writer, I did my...
By Lisa Black This week I saw House of Gucci—really liked it—and started to wonder: What fascinates us about rich people killing each other? Sure, every society is subject to celebrity worship, but why does that interest increase exponentially when the story involves murder? I have several...
By Z.J. Czupor She Wrote the First Legal Thriller On a Saturday morning, September 16, 1922, the Episcopal Reverend Edward W. Hall and his choir member (lover) Eleanor Mills were discovered shot dead under a crabapple tree in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Their love letters had been torn up and left...
