Category: mystery
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Good Rich People and the Bad Games They Play
Lyla and Graham Herschel like to play games. Not board or video games. Too boring for this ultra-rich restless couple who live in a home high up in the Hollywood Hills and not too far from Graham’s overbearing mother who would certainly win any mother-in-law from hell contest. No, the games they like…
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Article: Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2022 Edgar Award Nominations
Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2022 Edgar Award Nominations https://flip.it/4wuPbl
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Article: 10 Classic Crime Stories That Have Just Entered the Public Domain in 2022
10 Classic Crime Stories That Have Just Entered the Public Domain in 2022 https://flip.it/Pbeef_
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All Her Little Secrets
Most of us keep secrets from those we love—whether it’s simply misdirection about how much that new dress really cost or an outright lie like what really happened at the work party your partner couldn’t attend. But in Wanda Morris’s All Her Little Secrets, attorney Ellice Littlejohn has taken it to a new…
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The Attic on Queen Street by Karen White
Karen White and I are talking about ghosts, particularly the ghosts haunting Melanie Middleton Trenholm in White’s latest novel, The Attic on Queen Street, the last in the series set in haunted Charleston, South Carolina. “Do you believe in ghosts?” she asks. Not really, I reply, but I also don’t like staying in places that…
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The Ice Coven: Nordic Noir
When we last saw Helsinki police officer Jessica Niemi, she had solved a heinous spate of murders and escaped—or so it seemed—the clutches of a coven of witches. But alas, life isn’t always so easily wrapped up in a happy ever after ending and poor Jessica has to deal with those darn witches…
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Everything We Didn’t Say by Nicole Baart
Nicole Baart, who lives in Iowa and is the mother of five children from four different countries, is the author of several bestselling mysteries. Taking time out from her busy schedule—she’s already working on her next novel–Baart chatted with Jane Ammeson about her latest, Everything We Didn’t Say, which was selected as the Book of…
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Where They Wait: A Scott Carson Supernatural Thriller
What could be easier than for an out-of-work journalist than an offer of a high paying gig writing a puff piece for an old friend? Well, if you’re the main character in a Scott Carson novel then take it from someone like me who has read every book Michael Koryta has written including those…
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A Line to Kill
Anthony Horowitz is plotting a murder. That’s typical. After all, Horowitz has authored more than 40 mystery novels including several James Bond novels commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate. Oh, and did we mention he’s also screenwriter, adapting mysteries such as Midsomer Murders into a long running English television series. That’s a lot of homicides…
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America’s Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness
A Norwegian farm girl, her family so poor, they often went hungry, is seduced by a rich landowner’s son. But despite her dreams, he has no plans to make her his wife. Abandoned, she sees only one path forward or she’ll sink into the black hole of her family’s poverty. But her first goal is…
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