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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

Historical Novels Featuring Real People of the Past as Main Characters

Historical Novels Featuring Real People of the Past as Main Characters

9 books "that will take you back in time to another place."

By Jody Hadlock | April 7, 2022

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

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

Crime writers talking craft, routine, and finding the perfect twist.

By Eli Cranor | April 7, 2022

A List of Coming-Of-Age Mysteries and Thrillers

A List of Coming-Of-Age Mysteries and Thrillers

Or, six books featuring characters growing up against the wall.

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

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

On Time Travel and Metafiction

By Rachel Barenbaum | April 6, 2022

Meryl Streep as Muse: How Secrets Fuel Crime Narratives

By Amanda Eyre Ward | April 6, 2022

On The Law of Unintended Consequences

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

The Fugitive Who Conned His Way Into the Footsteps of Alexander the Great – and the Quest for His Lost Cities

The Fugitive Who Conned His Way Into the Footsteps of Alexander the Great – and the Quest for His Lost Cities

Alexander's great city had vanished. One British East India Company deserter was determined to find it.

By Edmund Richardson | April 5, 2022

Grace D. Li On Car Chases, Art Heists, and Chinese-American Identity

Grace D. Li On Car Chases, Art Heists, and Chinese-American Identity

"Even though this is a heist book, it’s really a book about relationships—to yourself, your friends, your family."

By Molly Odintz | April 5, 2022

Books to Understand Gilded-Age New York City

Books to Understand Gilded-Age New York City

"New York is an onion with endless, overlapping layers. I could study it for the rest of my life and only scratch the surface of what there is to know."

By Carol Lawrence | April 4, 2022

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | April 4, 2022

A Cold War Journalist's Favorite Russian Spy Novels

A Cold War Journalist's Favorite Russian Spy Novels

'I don’t think we’ll ever stop being fascinated by the country Winston Churchill famously called "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma"'

By Ellen Crosby | April 4, 2022

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