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Breaking new! …more than a year (and more) after we started the project. Richie Narvaez and I are currently under […]

I’m prepping like a crazy man for my talk “Linked, Intertwined, or Seamless: The Curious Case of the Novel in

Art Taylor / April 30, 2026

It’s been a week since the start of last week’s Malice Domestic, so I’m behind on posting about how much

Art Taylor / March 26, 2026

Ten years after winning the Agatha Award for Best First Novel, my debut book is on the road again—with great

Art Taylor / March 16, 2026

Thanks to Kristopher Zgorski at BOLO Books for hosting the cover reveal for the new edition of my first book,

Art Taylor / December 19, 2025

My good friend Andrew McAleer is resurrecting/reinvesting an old favorite. This month brings the first issue of Von Stray’s Crimestalker Casebook,

Art Taylor / November 16, 2025

I’m realizing that a good bit of my attention and efforts have been focused on Sherlock Holmes over the past

Art Taylor / October 24, 2025

So grateful to Alex Mattingly for hosting interviews with so many of the contributors to this year’s Best American Mystery

Art Taylor / October 12, 2025

On Wednesday, October 15, Mystery Writers of America hosts the MWA University panel “Achieve Success Writing Short Crime Fiction”—and I’m

Art Taylor / October 4, 2025

It’s been a nice week for bookmail—including two anthologies featuring stories of mine. As always I took the opportunity to

Art Taylor / September 9, 2025

I was so sorry to miss this year’s Bouchercon in New Orleans—especially because the Thursday night opening ceremonies included the

Art Taylor / June 17, 2025

In a completely unexpected twist, my story “Two for One” from Murder, Neat: A SleuthSayers Anthology was named a finalist