SleuthSayers
The Best is My Guest
Senior Sleuths and Sinners
Intimations of Immortality.
From the Wall O' Inspiration
The Truth on What We Make as Novelists
The Case of the Crumbling Platform
"Four Dead in Ohio"
Circle of Treason
Playing Defense
Bill Crider Rides Again
Whites, Birds, and White Birds
Christmas Movie Night
Is Accuracy Overrated?
Ptolemy VIII Eurgetes: What Your Subjects Call You Behind Your Back Is a Lot More Important Than What They Call You to Your Face (CA. 182–116 B.C.)
One Battle After Another
2025 Year in Review: Writing and Other Things
Wham bam, thank you ma’am.
The United Nations: When The Call Comes From Inside The House.
Studying Great Sentences: Hammett's Red Harvest
New Year: The Crime TBR Stack
Farewell Darkness, Welcome Light!
The Waiting Game
Two Great New Series
What Happened to Living Forever?
CopyQuite ©
2025--The JF Year in Review
The Stranger on the Other Line
The Interrogation
The Resolution Will Not Be Televised
Recap
I'll have what they're having.
2025: Let's Not Do That Again
Happy Festivus! (a fun post)
Get Up. Fall Down. Get Up Again.
Christmas Movies for the Ages — at Our House At Least
Butterfly
2025 Year in Review: Editing
The Pretty Good Shepherd
Christmas Musical Humor
December Stories
Holiday Tradition: A Very Tom Waits Christmas
Antiochus IV Epiphanes: Why We “Draw the Line” (CA. 215–164 B.C.)
Farewell, Ms. Dereske
Half-Topless?
Awk. Strike. Huh? Underline. Check.
Ryde Sharing
Mysteries of the Magi
Sudden Death Syndrome and the Missing Corpse: The Walshes
Saying Goodbye to Maisie
Lair, lair
The thing about fiction and poetry
AIn’t Necessarily So
Where'd THAT Ending Come From?
Road Tripping: Go Bag for Writers
Alexander the Great: Bastard as Exemplar for an Age (356–323 B.C.)
Dear Abi, or the Ultimate Unreliable Narrator
Mining the Files
Your Icelandic Yule Gauntlet Has Already Begun
“Writing is thinking.”
The Eyes Will Hopefully Have It
The Long Road to River Road
Practicing With Swordfishtrombones
The Ghosts of Turkeys are Among Us
Grace
Thanksgiving Humor
Todd Snider
Locating the Bride!
Criminal Words! (how I miss Latin!) (a fun post)
The Footnote That Roared
Philip II OF Macedonia: Sometimes the Bastard Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree (382–336 B.C.)
Farewell to San Sebastiano
A History Mystery
Truth be told.
Art Imitates Art
Whodunit? Beats Me.
The Secret to Never Growing Old
Humans are a Puzzlement...
"Hello, Bookstore"
The Best Private Eye Stories of the Year 2025
The Old Lady Shows her Mettle
The Louvre Heist: The Grave and The Absurd
An Unsolicited Analysis of the Louvre Heist
Quantum Criminals: Why Steely Dan Is The Most Noir Band Ever
Critias: Leader of the Thirty Athenian Tyrants-Putting the Terror into Tyranny (460–403 B.C.)
Another Friday Afternoon
Use of Memory in Fiction
You can’t get there from here.
Willie and the Poe Boy
Appositive Thinking
Writers Only Die Twice
How to Feed a Hungry Ghost
Six of a Kind
Old Words
Writing the Unwriteable
They Done Parker Dirty
A Criminal’s Hierarchy of Crime, by Lisa De Nikolits
Hollywood Kills
The Tyrant Who Sold the Philosopher Plato Into Slavery
Sidney Reilly: The Bottom of the Deck
It’s the End of the World as We Know It
Elementary.
A Head in a Jar
Deja Vu All Over Again
Ha Ha! Charade You Are!
Let Them Eat Grass
Bright Babble From The Bayou.
Looking for Tips about Writing and Submitting Mystery Short Stories? This is the Blog Post for You
Extraordinary People
Being the first woman to do the job doesn't mean they'll like you.
How The Addams Family Got Their Names...Then Blackballed
How About a Book with that Scone?
Barnacles
Reading Lists
A Day for Writers and Lawyers
Steady As She Goes.
He felt an itch to write and started from scratch
Yep, They Shot Him – But He's Okay
Crime Scene Comix Case 2025-10-036, Dog Walker
Mince Pies and Cigarettes. And a Skull. And a Seance...
Crime Krewe
Transformations
Want a Story Prompt? Deliver the Mail
Living the HI Life
I'm Pretty Sure This Book Tried to Kill Me: Writing the second book in a series
I'm Only Here To Steal Your Stuff
Crime Scene Comix Case 2025-09-035, Spaced Out
Seize the Day
The Extra Voice
Ready, Set, Go.
The Digital Detective, Pay the Piper II
A Letter to the Editors
All I Know About Writing Comes From Something Somebody (maybe) Said
September 15, 1963. A Mysterious Well. And Dioramas of Death.
Prime Prattle in Seattle
Typo-Casting
Why A Librarian? by Anna Scotti
Harming or murdering one person is illegal but doing the same thing on a mass scale is legal?
Scarcity Lends Value
Bouchercon Waffle Report
Ptolemy Keraunos: the Bastard Who Made Oedipus Look Like a Boy Scout
The Sweeney