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Inside the Early Days of Investigating the Murdaugh Family

Inside the Early Days of Investigating the Murdaugh Family

Mandy Matney broke the story on the Murdaugh Dynasty's many misdeeds. One key interview with a friend of a victim kept her on the case.

By Mandy Matney | November 15, 2023

How the True (and Still Unsolved) 1986 Assassination of the Swedish Prime Minister Inspired My Nordic Noir Novel

How the True (and Still Unsolved) 1986 Assassination of the Swedish Prime Minister Inspired My Nordic Noir Novel

Olof Palme led an extraordinary life (including becoming lifelong friends with Paul Newman) before his murder.

By Steve Berg | November 14, 2023

A Journey Into the Heart of the Everglades, and the Alligator Poacher Sting that Divided a Community

A Journey Into the Heart of the Everglades, and the Alligator Poacher Sting that Divided a Community

In her new book, 'Gator Country,' Rebecca Renner wants to go beyond the easy mythology of 'Florida Man.'

By Rebecca Renner | November 14, 2023

What Spy Fiction Taught Me About Breaking the Rules

What Spy Fiction Taught Me About Breaking the Rules

Anna Pitoniak on the moral ambiguities of great spy writing.

By Anna Pitoniak | November 14, 2023

Difficult Women In Historical Fiction: A Reading List

Difficult Women In Historical Fiction: A Reading List

Historical novels place ambitious, unlikeable characters in stark juxtaposition with contemporary cultural ideals.

By Shelley Blanton-Stroud | November 14, 2023

The Regency Mystery Arrives to the Ball

The Regency Mystery Arrives to the Ball

Forget Regency Romance. It's time for the Regency Mystery to reign (with, perhaps, a little romance thrown in there)

By Celeste Connally | November 14, 2023

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Shakespeare's First Folio has been Stolen Many, Many Times

By Alicia Andrzejewski and Carole Levin | November 13, 2023

Love and Cannibalism:
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By Linda Cheng | November 13, 2023

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads | November 13, 2023

The Many Poisons of Crime Fiction

The Many Poisons of Crime Fiction

Some authors are enchanted by arsenic. Others favor hemlock. And then there's the strychnine...

By Valona Jones | November 13, 2023

What To Read While You're Waiting for the Next Season of <em>Yellowjackets</em>

What To Read While You're Waiting for the Next Season of Yellowjackets

Or, suspenseful novels to distract you from screaming "Who is pit girl?"

By Margot Harrison | November 13, 2023

Elizabeth Hand on Playwriting, Haunted Houses, and Shirley Jackson

Elizabeth Hand on Playwriting, Haunted Houses, and Shirley Jackson

Hand's new novel, 'A Haunting on the Hill,' is the first authorized continuation of Shirley Jackson's iconic work.

By Olivia Rutigliano | November 10, 2023

Love Behind Bars: On the Complicated World of Incarcerated Romance

Love Behind Bars: On the Complicated World of Incarcerated Romance

The world of prison relationships shows that love is possible, even under the hardest of circumstances

By Elizabeth Greenwood | November 10, 2023

The Best Locked Room Mystery You've Probably Never Heard Of

The Best Locked Room Mystery You've Probably Never Heard Of

In 1944, "Hake Talbot" published a strange mystery novel that would soon earn itself a cult following.

By Rupert Holmes | November 10, 2023

The Dalton Gang's Final, Doomed Heists in the Twilight of the Old West

The Dalton Gang's Final, Doomed Heists in the Twilight of the Old West

They were the last in a line of bandits. Their final days were bloody, nasty, and snakebit.

By Tom Clavin | November 10, 2023

Rhys Bowen on Using Real Experiences As Inspiration

Rhys Bowen on Using Real Experiences As Inspiration

Keeping a long series fresh can be tricky, so it's good to have led a long and quirky life.

By Rhys Bowen | November 10, 2023

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