UB faculty member David Schmid will host an online chat on Nov. 9 about a new course he’s presenting on mystery and suspense fiction for The Great Courses, a recorded library of non-credit, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – David Schmid, an associate professor in the University at Buffalo Department of English, will chat live with online guests on Nov. 9 from 6-7 p.m. about a new course he’s presenting on ...

Here’s the sensational premise of Matthew Blake’s debut psychological suspense novel, “Anna O”: A young woman — who, depending on whom you believe, has either sleepwalked into a nightmare or is ...

In my creative writing classes, whether at the University of Toronto or the Hermitage Residency in Bangladesh, I emphasise that any student of fiction must first master suspense. Suspense is the ...

From the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley comes a how-to manual on her craft. In Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction, the late Patricia Highsmith gives advice on generating ideas (""It is amusing ...

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 ...

The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City is dedicated to all things, well, mysterious — and it prides itself on its recommendations. The shop deals in sub-genres from thrillers and espionage tales to ...