Fergus Craig on Cozies, Humor, and Placing Serial Killers in Unexpected Settings

Book Review: I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home by Fergus Craig  @drferguscraig @berkleypub

I’m Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home by Fergus Craig   Amazon  / B&N / Apple / GP / BB . After a decades-long stint in prison, former serial killer Carol is looking to kick back and relax in her new retirement home…until a fellow resident drops dead and Carol has to prove she actually didn’t do it this time…. Carol is delighted to be leaving her tiny prison cell behind to take her place in a luxury retirement home. She’s hoping her …

Fergus Craig on Cozies, Humor, and Placing Serial Killers in Unexpected Settings

How do you feel about murder? Me? I’m against it. Let me say that right from the start. I think murder is wrong. And if we’re agreed that murder is wrong (I’d like to think we are, though there may be a few dissenters) then why do so many of us find it comforting? There is, you’ll have noticed, a literal genre titled “cozy crime.” Isn’t that the very definition of an oxymoron? It makes no sense. And yet we are in the midst of a cozy crime boom. …