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Red, Hot and Blue: A Defense of Agatha Christie’s The Mystery of the Blue TrainPart One: The Passion of Aline and Henry— A True Tale of the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous between the Two World Wars ...
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10 Chilling Reddit Stories That Will Keep You Up At Night“Everything is true here, even if it’s not.” With over 17 million members, NoSleep is a subreddit dedicated to horror...
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Riley Sager on the Power of Nostalgia and Nerve-Jangling SuspenseThe heat and haze of summer days holds the power to rekindle memories of sacred childhood rituals—beaches and bicycles, playdates and popsicles,...
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Why the Liv Constantine Duo Finally Decided to Return to Their Breakout Hit – Seven Years LaterWhen you don’t remember what you had for lunch two days ago, it’s easy to imagine that bringing back characters from a book written seven years...
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Six Stunning Tales of Folk HorrorI’m not sure when the folk horror (or folk horror “adjacent”!) element of my new thriller, The Midnight Feast first came to me. Perhaps it was...
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Emiko Jean and Jamie Lee Sogn Talk Writing, Representation, and the Pacific NorthwestEmiko Jean, who already has a devoted following for her well-crafted ya fiction, released her debut novel for adult audiences, The Return of...
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Denver: Mountain Air and Plenty of Crime FictionWhat kind of city is this Denver, Colorado we hear reports of? To those of us who inhabit distinctly grimier, grittier cities, far off Denver...
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The Early Vampire Novel The Vampyre was Falsely Attributed to Lord ByronOne night in the rainy summer of 1816, at Lord Byron’s summer estate, Villa Diodati, in Cologny, near Geneva, Switzerland, Byron, and his friends...
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On the Internet, We’re All Unreliable NarratorsFor a long time, if someone would have asked me how I decide which parts of my life and work to share on the internet, I would have responded...
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In Memory Of Thuglit, The Lit Mag You Should Have ReadI was sitting in the back of an auditorium two years ago, listening to S.A. Cosby ruminate on the beginnings of his since gone thermonuclear...
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Madeline Claire Franklin: I’m Tired of Talking About Sexual AssaultWhen I started writing The Wilderness of Girls —a young adult novel about a pack of feral girls thrust into civilization and the troubled...
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is the Best Batman MovieBatman: Mask of the Phantasm is the best movie about Batman. That’s not because it has the most villains with the most memorable superpowers,...
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June’s Best International Crime FictionThere’s only one truly new novel in this month’s crop of international crime fiction—the others are all reissues, some translated for...
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How Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Kim’ Helped Create Modern EspionageBoosters of the CIA like to talk up its American ancestry, pointing out that spies helped win the Republic’s founding struggle against the...
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The Lure of Faraway Places in Crime FictionI was barely out of college when I packed my bags and moved to the other side of the planet for the first time. I was young, of course, and...
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Quiz: Can You Identify These Opening Lines of Classic Mystery and Crime Novels?We find ourselves (again) the middle of the week; I ask you, how does this keep happening? We must stop meeting this way. It’s time for...
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Lovely, Dark and Deep: Why the Pacific Northwest is the Perfect Setting for Murder“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” -John Muir With a twelve-gauge slung over his shoulder and a walking...
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The Lure of the Jailhouse ConfessionalThe jailhouse confessional is a form that has always intrigued me—an accused recounting his crimes, after the fact—seemingly to atone, but more...
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The Spy Who Helped Bring the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. back from the Brink of Nuclear WarIn 1983 a man named Oleg Gordievsky saved the world. Gordievsky, a disillusioned officer in the KGB, had in 1968 offered himself to Britain’s...
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James Lee Burke on Hemingway, Orwell, and a New Chapter in the American Battle Against FascismThe work of James Lee Burke functions as a searchlight, exposing and illuminating the contradictions of the American experience. Full of grand...
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Queering Crime Stories: Establishing a New Order in Mysteries and ThrillersA traditional mystery or whodunit offers a recognizable milieu with social and physical limitations, whether it’s a small village or a city...
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On Body Shaming, Women’s Rage, and the Power of the ThrillerIn a world that wants us to shrink, what if we took up space? That’s the question at the heart of many of the recent thrillers that delve into...
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Why Humor is one of the Sharpest Tools in a Writer’s ArsenalMark was once the world’s deadliest assassin, working for a clandestine group called the Agency. His alias, the Pale Horse, struck fear into the...
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The Making of a Reality Show VillainThe easiest type of reality TV contestant it is to be is a forgotten one. This sounds a little counterintuitive, when we consider the promise...
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Ruth Ware On the Comfort of Thrillers and The Novelist’s Duty to the TruthBest-selling British author Ruth Ware is back with another gripping tale, this time whisking us to a tropical Indonesian paradise that quickly...
