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    The Art of Throwing Truly Memorable Parties – In Suspense Novels

    Lara Elena Donnelly on dinner parties, galas, country weekends and the many tortures they inflict on characters with secrets to hide.

    February 2, 2022  By Lara Elena Donnelly
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    V.C. Andrews and the Battle Against School Censorship

    Flowers in the Attic was banned from numerous districts for depictions of child abuse and incest. Everyone still read it.

    February 1, 2022  By Andrew Neiderman
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    The Best New Crime Fiction Coming Out This Month

    February has new novels from Sara Gran, Rob Hart, Jane Pek, Paul Vidich, and more.

    February 1, 2022  By CrimeReads 
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    Make the Face Match the Ass: Delilah S. Dawson on Transformation in Thrillers

    "The goal of a character’s transformation is that it feels natural, satisfying, and deserved."

    February 1, 2022  By Delilah S. Dawson
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    Hanslope Park: The True Home of Britain's Spy Gadgets

    T.A. Willberg on the whimsical and sometimes ghoulish history of Her Majesty’s Government Communications Centre

    February 1, 2022  By T.A. Willberg
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

    January 31, 2022  By CrimeReads 
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    The Curious Fate of Care Leavers in Crime Fiction

    Crime fiction is packed with orphans, outcasts and the reinvented.

    January 31, 2022  By Sarah Hilary
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    Why Do We Feel So Much Empathy for Villains?

    "The ability to go on loving someone even when that person has done something awful is one of the hallmarks of who we are."

    January 31, 2022  By Jacquelyn Mitchard
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    So You Want to Marry a Mystery Writer

    Or, humorous relationship advice from the Victorian Era.

    January 31, 2022  By Elizabeth C. Bunce
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    Undermoney

    Jay Newman

    "In a world of excess, nothing exceeded expectations like Elias Vicker’s Fire Rites of Beltane, the legendary stag party he held every year on the first Tuesday of May, just as spring buds were bursting into the brightness of just-opened leaves, lending midtown streets a transitory illusion of innocence."

    January 31, 2022  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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