In the last post, when I told you about researching small towns to figure out what kind of police force you might use in your small town coz...

Over on Elizabeth Spann Craig's Writing the Cozy Mystery this week, she's writing about developing a mystery series, and things to ...

I'm a little behind on the critiques I meant to do yesterday. That's partly because the first one was tough. (It was a case where ...

(This is a series of articles on police as secondary characters in mystery novels. The other entries in the series are Columbo Ex-Machina , ...

Inspector Slack is the classic disdainful detective that you see over and over again in cozy mysteries. Christie herself didn't use him...

One of my favorite types of cop characters is what I call the "Columbo Ex Machina" character. This is a character who lurks decept...