While the erotic body can be an organ of knowing for the detective as we will see, the body is also the primal site of the mystery. In fact, a corpse might b...

The pandemic is alchemy on a collective and individual scale. We can be part of curing ourselves and the world.

Self-isolating is not Self Isolation

Hestia, goddess of hearth and home, might appear an unlikely divinity for the mystery’s quest for truth. In the Greek pantheon, Hestia is paired with the enq...

The stories and images clustering around the goddess Artemis or Diana, avatar of the moon, re-appear in the imaginative world of the fictional detective. Moo...

Something feels stale about the New Year’s resolutions in this new decade: 2020. It think it is my history of failing to keep them! In this, of course, in th...

The Last Christmas (2019) movie has had poor reviews. So have many artistic works that become beloved. I loved this movie and think it conveys heartwarming s...

Last week I found my first mention of Brexit in Alice Boatright’s What Child is This? An Ellie Kent mystery set at Christmas complete with real life abandone...

So I am the apprentice, but there is still “Mystery Writer” and “spellbook” to pars. Where I am from (UK), “mystery” is less used to describe detective ficti...

This is one of the experiments in my blog with the tongue firmly in the side of the mouth title. I am the Mystery Writer’s apprentice. New to writing the gen...