To keep readers motivated to turn pages, much fiction contains an element of mystery, even when the book isn't a genre mystery novel. Just as the unknown keeps the reader intrigued, it helps the ...

Devin Abraham was in “kind of a mess” a few weeks ago at Once Upon A Crime mystery bookstore in Minneapolis where she was surrounded by crime/mystery books that will be sold at Bouchercon 2022, being ...

In alphabetical order, the women are: Megan Abbott, Kate Atkinson, Lori Rader Day, Gillian Flynn, Tana French, Laura Lippman, Lisa Lutz, Louise Penny and Ivy Pochoda. I’m not going to name the one ...

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To learn more about the elements of great mystery architecture, Vulture asked eight masters of the form to anatomize their thinking, from the most conceptual level down to the technical details. None ...

The hundreds of guests attending the Mystery Writers of America's 77th Edgar Awards Banquet at Manhattan's Marriott Marquis hotel last night rose to their feet twice to give standing ovations, ...

If you saw the season-ending episode of The Mentalist, do you remember the clue that helped catch the killer? Me, neither. In the movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, what was the mistake Ryan ...

I thought I was a Tana French completist until I sat down to write this essay. I hound Viking’s publicity department so diligently for publication dates and galley copies that one member of the team, ...

Readers visiting from Mars would assume that only white folks were murdered, solved crimes, righted wrongs, and fell in love with no-goodniks with shady pasts or dames with hearts of gold. The mystery ...