Human Cost

July 15, 2026

Roughly a month ago, I sat down with a young lady named Samantha, who had just graduated high school. She talked about how she’d been nervous coming to a new town, she talked about her friends’ struggles with mental health, and she talked about her own plans to go on to college and study clinical … More Human Cost

My totally not-at-all-presumptive theory about the difference between male and female murder writers. (Also, free book!)

June 5, 2025

I certainly can’t claim to have all “female writers” figured out. But I do think there was an insight in Haidt’s book The Anxious Generation that has really helped me pinpoint a critical distinction between how male and female writers approach detective fiction. … More My totally not-at-all-presumptive theory about the difference between male and female murder writers. (Also, free book!)