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    How ‘Satanic Panic’ Came to Roil the Nation During the 1980s

    How ‘Satanic Panic’ Came to Roil the Nation During the 1980s

    TV movies, breathless news reports, and amateur symbologists all played a part in the panic's mysterious spread through 1980s America.

    By Keith Roysdon | April 8, 2022

    On Junk Science and Poverty

    On Junk Science and Poverty

    How did civil litigation, where money is at stake, end up with more accurate scientific evidence than the criminal justice system, where life and liberty are at stake?

    By M. Chris Fabricant | April 8, 2022

    <em>Slow Horses</em> is <br>Worth the Slow Burn

    Slow Horses is
    Worth the Slow Burn

    Come for the spy drama’s creative pedigree, stay for the deeply bleak comedy of spycraft gone 'goblin mode'

    By Alexis Gunderson | April 8, 2022

    For This Historical Novelist Writing About Gilded Age New York, There's Always More Research to Be Done

    For This Historical Novelist Writing About Gilded Age New York, There's Always More Research to Be Done

    For historical mystery novelists like Stacie Murphy, research is an endless source of inspiration.

    By Stacie Murphy | April 8, 2022

    April's Best Psychological Thrillers

    April's Best Psychological Thrillers

    Island retreats, exclusive clubs, family drama, high-class scammers, and more.

    By Lisa Levy | April 8, 2022

    Turns out, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote an episode of <em>Veronica Mars</em>

    Turns out, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote an episode of Veronica Mars

    He collaborated with Rob Thomas on 2019's season 4 reboot, and it's actually a pretty charming story.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | April 7, 2022

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    Historical Novels Featuring Real People of the Past as Main Characters

    By Jody Hadlock | April 7, 2022

    Shop Talk: Kellye Garrett Finds a Character, Finds a Murder, and Starts Filling up the Notebooks

    By Eli Cranor | April 7, 2022

    A List of Coming-Of-Age Mysteries and Thrillers

    By Amelia Kahaney | April 7, 2022

    Celebrating a New Era of Mothers Being Total Badasses in Thrillers

    Celebrating a New Era of Mothers Being Total Badasses in Thrillers

    Superheroes are celebrated for their heroism. Supermums are celebrated for their drudgery. These books flip the script.

    By Anna Downes | April 7, 2022

    Investigating the Cold Case That Inspired <em>Twin Peaks</em>

    Investigating the Cold Case That Inspired Twin Peaks

    A trip to upstate New York, where Mark Frost once heard stories of an unsolved murder from the early 1900s.

    By Mark T. Givens and David Bushman | April 6, 2022

    On Time Travel and Metafiction

    On Time Travel and Metafiction

    Every time traveler has something they want to fix – and something they can't help but risk destroying.

    By Rachel Barenbaum | April 6, 2022

    Meryl Streep as Muse: How Secrets Fuel Crime Narratives

    Meryl Streep as Muse: How Secrets Fuel Crime Narratives

    Amanda Eyre Ward explains why keeping secrets is a writer's greatest craft tool.

    By Amanda Eyre Ward | April 6, 2022

    On The Law of Unintended Consequences

    On The Law of Unintended Consequences

    From the Streisand Effect to the Cobra Effect, the most interesting are the perverse.

    By Jeffrey Siger | April 6, 2022

    Forget <em>Frankenstein</em>. It's Time To Read <em>The Mummy!</em>

    Forget Frankenstein. It's Time To Read The Mummy!

    Lisa Tuttle on The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, arguably the first novel to use now-common scifi tropes.

    By Lisa Tuttle | April 5, 2022

    Guillermo Martínez: When Crime Fiction Lives in Crime Fiction

    Guillermo Martínez: When Crime Fiction Lives in Crime Fiction

    On the long tradition and curious effects of introducing real-life literature into a mystery novel.

    By Guilllermo Martínez | April 5, 2022

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