Ratings aren’t everything, but your characters have to be somewhere, right? These lists may help you decide where you to plant your characters.

Quality of Life Around the World: The Best and Worst Cities (Infographic) | Entrepreneur.com

http://m.entrepreneur.com/article/232001

Anna Holmes writes about two girls — Harriet and Scout — who were not “girly girls.” Who, I wonder, did they grow up to be?

Harriet M. Welsch, Scout Finch, and How to Be a Good Bad American Girl : The New Yorker

http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/03/harriet-m-welsch-scout-finch-and-how-to-be-a-good-bad-american-girl.html

Tecnology is great, but here’s a case for letting your sleuth hit the streets.

Solving Cold Cases Depends on New Witnesses, Not DNA

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140306-cold-cases-murder-csi-forensic-science/

Here’s who dunnit and how.

Raymond Chandler’s Ten Commandments for Writing a Detective Novel « Open Culture

http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/raymond-chandlers-ten-commandments-for-writing-a-detective-novel.html