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The month's best new debuts in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

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"This permission to imagine, I believe, is the gift of all comics but T’Challa, the Black Panther, was a special gift to many young black people. Rather than a creation for us, it was a manifestation of our underlying dreams."

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Still, fans and newcomers will find a lot to love

Noir Confidential: On Editing Crime Books and Living a Life Filled With Mystery

"In writing as in life, we stumble on, piecing together whatever clues we manage to uncover."

Into the Combat Zone: Boston's Most Notorious Neighborhood

The Zone was Boston's Times Square, a magnet for the city's most desperate and depraved.

The Art of the Cozy Mystery: Six Cozy Mysteries Featuring an Art Theme

In the world of cozy mysteries, art and antiquities abound.

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

Surrounded by Beauty – Can an Object Ask you to Commit a Crime?

Usually criminologists study the criminal, but many of today’s scholars recommend an object-centric approach for understanding art crime. Cordy Abbott looks at a new model for why your antagonist committed art, antiquities or antiques theft.

A Tiny Review of Glass Onion

Rian Johnson's long-awaired Knives Out sequel is a lavish, wildly satirical mystery.

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