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When is a cozy so much fun that you need to put down everything you are reading (or streaming) to just enjoy it? When …
Agatha Christie’s 1939 And There Were None set the template for the island mystery with its protagonists trapped on a remote isle and stalked …
Oak Hill, NC is a town where nothing much in the way of crime happens. Then, in the space of a few days, there …
In the middle of the night, an airline pilot receives a frantic call from his mother, begging him not to fly in the morning. …
Immensely powerful. Expertly written. Shocking time and time again. This novel poses the question: what should a woman do if she loves her child, …
A unique work of crime fiction told from the perspective of a BIPOC community within an elite, east coast university. Daphne Ouverture, an expert …