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Broadcast Clues Hank Phillippi Ryan
An awarding-winning investigative journalist brings her expertise to bear on her fiction.
by Oline H. Cogdill
Books to Die For: Ross Macdonald’s The Chill
A thoughtful look at a celebrated author by one of contemporary crime fiction’s leading lights.
by John Connolly
Attica Locke
Past injustices and present inequities intersect at a Louisiana plantation in this talented newcomer’s latest.
by Oline H. Cogdill
Robert Barnard: A Talent to Entertain
An appreciation of this English author’s sharp wit and stellar plots.
by Martin Edwards
Action Figures We’d Like to See
Forgot all those plastic Luke Skywalkers and Batmen, these PIs should be action figures.
by Kevin Burton Smith
The Murders in Memory Lane: Now We Call It Mid-Century Erotica
It might not have been literature, but it was the beginning of a literary career.
by Lawrence Block
“If Books Could Kill” Mystery Crossword
by Verna Suit
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by Kate Stine
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Cunning and underrated: Derailed with Jennifer Aniston
by Ed Gorman
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Remnants of the Civil War
by Don Helin
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Small Press Reviews: Covering the Independents
by Betty Webb
Very Original: Paperback Originals Reviewed
by Lynne Maxwell & Hank Wagner
What About Murder? Reference Books Reviewed
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Sounds of Suspense: Audiobooks Reviewed
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Short & Sweet: Short Stories Considered
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