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    How the Darker Side of the Fight for Women's Suffrage Inspired One Historical Mystery Novelist

    Victoria Thompson has published almost fifty historical mysteries. During the research phase, she's always looking for that one fact that takes your breath away.

    April 28, 2021  By Victoria Thompson
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    Towards A New Understanding of Psychosis and Violence

    We live in a world that conditions us to fear mental illness instead of to treat it. The consequences of this approach are deadly.

    April 28, 2021  By Vince Granata
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    Seven Great Thrillers That Play With Form

    Transcripts, letters, news clippings...These novels ratchet up the suspense and character development with unexpected elements.

    April 28, 2021  By Amy Suiter Clarke
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    On the Dognapping Gangs that Terrorized Victorian London, and the Poet who Fought Back

    The tale of the most dramatic dognappinng of the 19th century, which sealed a romance and changed literary history.

    April 27, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Driving in the Dark: Getaway Drivers in Fiction and the Dark Side of the American Dream

    The greatest getaway drivers in contemporary crime fiction.

    April 27, 2021  By Nick Kolakowski
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    Nine Things Your Thriller Needs to Be Lean, Mean, and Exhilarating

    Meg Gardiner breaks down the essential elements of great thrillers.

    April 27, 2021  By Meg Gardiner
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    The LAPD's Secret History of Citizen Spying

    Los Angeles has a long history of activism—and police infiltrators in activist groups.

    April 27, 2021  By Michael Nava
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    How Anti-Catholic Propaganda, Racism, and One Man's Paranoid Obsessions Helped Form Oregon's Founding Myths

    Henry Spalding was a sometimes missionary regarded by many as a lunatic. His lies about a frontier killing helped shape a new state.

    April 27, 2021  By Blaine Harden
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    The Amazing Tale of Fergus Hume and William Freeman; or, the Critic’s Comeuppance

    Critic William Freeman despised the mediocre mysteries of Fergus Hume. But was bad writing all there was to his enduring hatred?

    April 26, 2021  By Curtis Evans
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

    April 26, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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