Caroline: Being a writer is a peculiar occupation in lots of ways. It falls somewhere between job, pastime, hobby and vocation, and might be one, several or none of those things at the same time. Even within the subset of those who write to earn their living, there are plenty
11 Jan 2023Caroline: When we want to describe a work of detective fiction, there are a few different terms that get thrown around. We might say "murder mystery", or "crime fiction", or "detective story", or "thriller", or perhaps "whodunnit". These aren'
30 Nov 2022Caroline: A golden age murder mystery should work on two levels. There's the day to day world that the characters inhabit, in which they eat meals, share gossip and, occasionally, kill each other. Lying behind that is a more elemental realm, in which abstract concepts like justice, order,
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