In alphabetical order, the women are: Megan Abbott, Kate Atkinson, Lori Rader Day, Gillian Flynn, Tana French, Laura Lippman, Lisa Lutz, Louise Penny and Ivy Pochoda. I’m not going to name the one ...

Books The mystery writer behind ‘Jamie Day’ finally steps into the light Under a pen name, this BU alum has become a bestselling author of New England-set suspense. Now he talks his New England roots, ...

Tyrenna Tolbert of White Plains answered questions from the Independent via email. Tolbert has published “Who's Got Skills” in 2008 and “Who's Got Skills 2” 2011. Tolbert described her books as urban ...

As mystery fiction expert Penzler notes in his concise overview of African-American crime writing at the start of this welcome anthology, despite the central element linking the 15 short stories, they ...

Last January, when we launched the very first Buffalo News Short Story Writing Contest, we thought we'd get 50 or 60 manuscripts from local authors. Were we ever amazed, however, when more than 500 ...

Nyah Payne has been playing games since she was little, and writing for even longer! She graduated from Falmouth Univeristy with a degree in Game Development: Writing, getting to combine her two ...