Reading Lists

  • Never Vacation With Old Friends: The Locked-Room Thriller Problem

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    People love to share vacation photos on social media. Some try to act nonchalant about their expensive getaways. Others aim to impress. The more remote the location, the better.ย …

  • Cats and Cozies, Cozies and Cats

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    Cats and cozies go together like Romeo and Juliet. Mac and cheese. Ernie and Bert. The term cozies was coined in the 1990โ€™s for mysteries that take place in…

  • Sinking Into the Gothic Gloom: My Favourite Worksย 

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    Iโ€™ve always struggled with some of the prevailing definitions of โ€˜gothicโ€™ fiction. Tradition dictates there should be elements of fear, threat, woe, that hauntings should occur and vile things…

  • 10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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    Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Stephen Spotswood, Murder Crossed Her Mind (Doubleday) โ€œFaithful column readers know how much I adore…

  • Crime and the City: Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight

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    Portsmouth โ€“ known to the locals as โ€œPompeyโ€ โ€“ is, and has been for centuries, Englandโ€™s largest Royal Navy base, 75 miles south of London in the country of…

  • Troubled Teens in Crime Fiction

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    Teenagers donโ€™t have it easy. On top of navigating a microculture rife with veiled rules and unspoken expectationsโ€”also known as high schoolโ€”they often get a bad rap. Adults tend…

  • Tis the Season to be (Fictionally) Murdered

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    Iโ€™ve never been one for a beach read at the beach. Recently in Ventura and Monterey, I read a New-Jersey-set legal thriller (Robyn Giglโ€™s Survivor Guilt), a desert-set horror…

  • The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: November 2023

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    Anna Pitoniak, The Helsinki Affair (Simon and Schuster) โ€œAtmospheric, well-researched and packed with tradecraft, conspiracies, murder and, best of all, two fascinating women โ€ฆ Pitoniak has something unexpected up…

  • The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

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    From Book Marks, a look at Novemberโ€™s best reviewed new releases. * Anna Pitoniak, The Helsinki Affair (Simon and Schuster) โ€œAtmospheric, well-researched and packed with tradecraft, conspiracies, murder and,…


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