From Crime Reads:
As a reader and an author, I’ve discovered a truth about this region of the world, which is that not only is it underrepresented in crime fiction—it’s also egregiously underrated. Because, this “middle of nowhere,” as it turns out, is a frightening place to be.
Help could be hours away.
Consider farm country, a grid of corn mazes and fields that harbor who knows how many unmarked graves. Antique houses are perched atop dirt floor cellars, with barns out back that are slat board armories of pitchforks and saws and rusted rakes.
The elements are always out to kill you.
Of course, there are the remote northwoods, peppered with bear traps and dead man’s falls. If the raging river current doesn’t carry you off, something else will. Here, the trees tower high enough to blot out the sky, not to mention a cell phone signal.
No one will hear you scream.
The Midwest isn’t completely distant and desolate. In fact, the once booming cities are some of my favorite writing playgrounds, for they are the ghosts of industry, with their ramshackle buildings and defunct factories, vacant warehouses with broken windows that are now yawning mouths waiting to swallow trespassers whole. (Read more.)
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