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CRIME WRITING - RESOURCES MASTERLIST
Writing masterlist of crime-related resources salvaged from @klariza-helps and with links updated to https, though some may still be broken (I haven’t checked them all). Had to host the list as a page on my blog since Tumblr no longer allows text posts above a certain character limit
The list is organized into categories, so it is recommended that you take advantage of the CTRL+F function on your keyboard.
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Links in the masterlist are not labeled with trigger warnings for images, titles, or mentions of triggering subjects. Please be careful.
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Ann Cleeves
Crime writer Ann Cleeves was born in 1954 in Herefordshire, England. Cleeves has written more than thirty-five novels. Her books have been translated into twenty languages and sold more than five million copies. Cleeves has created multiple popular fictional detectives. These characters' stories have been adapted into television shows such as Shetland, which had an average of more than 7 million views in the UK alone. In 2017, Cleeves won the CWA Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association.
One thing I discovered in reading Agatha Christie is that mystery short story collections can be very satisfying for bedtime reading. Having a puzzle & solution is key to the mystery genre; solutions are usually satisfying; my county library has plenty.
From Leslie S. Klinger's Introduction to the collection "In The Shadow of Agatha Christie" is a discussion of women crime writers. This surprised me:
"An American writer not normally associated with crime writing is Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). However, between 1863 and 1869, primarily under the name A. M. Barnard, she wrote a number of lesser-known shorter works—she referred to them as her “blood-and-thunder” stories—with themes including drug use, ghosts, violence, revenge, murder, insanity, and mental abberations. Though little remembered, her best-known are “Pauline’s Passion and Punishment” (1863), “The Abbot’s Ghost” (1866), “Behind a Mask” (1866), “Long Fatal Love Chase” (1866), and “The Mysterious Key” (1867). With the success of Little Women in 1868, however, she abandoned the genre."
Fascinating.
Silent auction 'Crime Writers for Trans Rights 2025' hosted online at 32auctions.
CLARE DUNKEL,better known by her pen name,MO HAYDER (1962-Died July 27th 2021,at 59.Motor Neurone disease). British author of crime and thriller fiction. She authored more than ten novels under her pseudonym Mo Hayder and one under Theo Clare when her career began in 2000.She won an Edgar Award in 2012. Her best known work was Birdman, which was followed by a sequel The Treatment,creating the Detective Inspector Jack Cafferey,who was the main character in these novels., Her final book, The House of Sand, will be published in 2022, a year after her death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Hayder
Would there be any charges if A was unwittingly masterminded a bank heist? B tells his A he's gonna rob a bank and has floor plans and security rotations asking what A would do. The plans are all hand copied by B so it doesn't look like official plans and B makes it all sound like joking. So A gets into it for fun and goes let's play the bad guy, not knowing it's actually all real and the bank really gets robbed.
While judges do say that ignorance of the law is no defense to criminal charges, intent does matter. Depending on the law, and whether or not the prosecutor can prove intent, planning a crime may not be an offense at all. But the fact that a crime was committed by another person in your scenario changes things. While there are mitigating circumstances, Person A may still be charged with criminal conspiracy or be liable as an accomplice since Person B used them to rob a bank.
New from Vintage Crime and the extraordinary editor Otto Penzler, The Big Book of Reel Murders: Stories that Inspired Great Crime Films.