Neely was really a pioneer for female African-American mystery writers, and she has used Blanche's casework to send powerful, prescient, political and social messages.

Why does the Pacific Northwest seem to produce so many female mystery authors? It’s a mystery to Pepper Parker, who works at Vancouver’s last independent bookstore, Vintage Books. Parker just ...

Award-winning mystery writer Barbara Neely, who created what’s believed to be the first black female detective series in mainstream American publishing, has died following a brief illness ...

Mystery Writers of America announced its nominations for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, including awards for best novel, first novel by an American author, paperback original, fact crime ...

The Secret History of the Girl Detective Long before Nancy Drew, avid readers picked up tales of young women solving mysteries Stephanie Gorton - Freelance writer March 8, 2016 ...

“Laura Lippman’s contributions to the mystery genre as a writer, a teacher and a role model for aspiring writers — especially women writers — make her a wonderful choice for Mystery ...

Surrisi’s book, subtitled “Unraveling the Mystery of a Female Viking Warrior,” packs a lot of information into just 156 pages, not counting a glossary of scientific and Viking words and ...

Mystery Writers of America announced the list of nominees for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards on Jan. 22, honoring great achievements in the genre this past year.

Agatha Christie died in 1976, having published 12 Miss Marple novels and several collections of Miss Marple stories. Why not keep the franchise alive?

Book review: Clever ‘Queens of Crime’ a meticulously researched novel about women mystery writers Marie Benedict’s “The Queens of Crime” is set in England in 1930. (Anthony Musmanno ...

Spring resident Diana Driver has been "messing around" as a writer for the last 15 years, but she decided to get serious a couple of years ago when she formed a women writers' support group called ...

‘Blood Sisters’ by Vanessa Lillie. Berkley, 384 pages, $27 Vanessa Lillie expertly balances a compassionate look at Native American culture and a comprehensive examination of the treatment by ...