Nate Briggs

A painful (but not terminal) conflict presents itself when we consider so-called “cozy” mysteries -- a fiction genre that’s inexorably spreading like an invasive plant species on the shelves of bookstores just about everywhere - moving murder out of the Urban and into the mostly pleasant Rural.

A typical plot goes like this: old Mrs Butterbottom – bravely widowed these ten years – finds a severed h Read more of this blog post »