Land of 10,000 Thrills: Bouchercon Anthology 2022

"But will it play in Peoria?"

For years, the Midwest has been used as a stand-in for "average America". The sweeping great plains, the heavy snows of winter, ice fishing and mighty rivers and frozen lakes. Midwesterners have a reputation for being the salt of the earth, friendly and kind and helpful and nice. But is "Midwestern nice" merely a cover for what really goes on in this part of the country? John Wayne Gacy, the bloody Benders, and Jeffrey Dahmer were all Midwesterners-but that doe...