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Elmore Leonard: Birth of the Cool

Elmore Leonard: Birth of the Cool

In an excerpt from the new biography, Cooler than Cool, Leonard discovers his crime fiction voice after reading George V. Higgins, while balancing a burgeoning career in screenwriting.

By C.M. Kushins | June 10, 2025

The High Cost of Silence: My Secret Life as a Whistleblower

The High Cost of Silence: My Secret Life as a Whistleblower

In the new book, 'False Claims,' Lisa Pratta chronicles her years working undercover in Big Pharma.

By Lisa Pratta | June 3, 2025

Searching for the Elusive Stephanie St. Clair, New York's

Searching for the Elusive Stephanie St. Clair, New York's "Madame Queen"

She was a towering figure of the Harlem underground. So why don't we know more about her today?

By Mary Kay McBrayer | June 3, 2025

Rich Cohen on the Murder of Jennifer Dulos and His New Book, 'Murder in the Dollhouse'

Rich Cohen on the Murder of Jennifer Dulos and His New Book, 'Murder in the Dollhouse'

"[S]he misunderstood something about America, which is that the idyll isn't real. It's a kind of advertising."

By Kevin Canfield | May 29, 2025

Michelle Young on Telling the Story of Rose Valland, the WWII Hero and

Michelle Young on Telling the Story of Rose Valland, the WWII Hero and "Art Spy"

Valland risked her life to chronicle Nazi looting of Europe's treasures.

By Morgan Leigh Davies | May 14, 2025

Axe Murder: A Brief History of a Grim Cultural Obsession

Axe Murder: A Brief History of a Grim Cultural Obsession

Read an excerpt from Rachel McCarthy James's new book, 'Whack Job'

By Rachel McCarthy James | May 13, 2025

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James Gandolfini, The Searcher

By Jason Bailey | April 29, 2025

Bodies of Evidence: Anne Soon Choi on the Life and Crimes of Controversial “Coroner to the Stars” Thomas Noguchi

Bodies of Evidence: Anne Soon Choi on the Life and Crimes of Controversial “Coroner to the Stars” Thomas Noguchi

"Only in LA can a coroner become a celebrity."

By John B. Valeri | April 28, 2025

Everything You Thought <br>You Knew About Lethal <br>Injection Is Wrong

Everything You Thought
You Knew About Lethal
Injection Is Wrong

"Lethal injection not working well is how lethal injection works."

By Corinna Barrett Lain | April 22, 2025

How Grady Hendrix Came to Love Horror

How Grady Hendrix Came to Love Horror

Read an excerpt and see the cover reveal for the new anthology "Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature", edited by Becky Siegel Spratford

By Grady Hendrix | April 4, 2025

A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for the Lost Boys of Houston

A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for the Lost Boys of Houston

How a prison meeting with Wayne Henley, the teenage accomplice in the Candy Man murders, deepened the mystery Sharon Derrick set out to solve.

By Lise Olsen | April 2, 2025

America’s First Spy of World War II: Ernest Cuneo

America’s First Spy of World War II: Ernest Cuneo

How A Nazi Plan to Blow up New York City Was Investigated by Churchill’s Spies at Rockefeller Center and Roosevelt's Trusted Advisor

By Thomas Maier | March 26, 2025

James Whitfield Thomson on His Decades-Long Search for Answers to His Sister's Death

James Whitfield Thomson on His Decades-Long Search for Answers to His Sister's Death

The chronicle of a brother's investigation.

By James Whitfield Thomson | March 25, 2025

Joshua Hammer on Victorian London and the Great Race to Solve the Mysteries of Writing

Joshua Hammer on Victorian London and the Great Race to Solve the Mysteries of Writing

In Hammer's new book, he chronicles an era when archaeologists were stars and the public followed the quest to decipher Assyrian script.

By Kevin Canfield | March 20, 2025

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