Features

CIS: 75 years of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

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With the world at war, England under bombardment, espionage running rampant, and sinister forces blanketing half the globe, late 1941 cannot have been the right time to start a new publishing venture. Yet that is the dark moment when Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine was launched, and…
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You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott audiobook

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Narrated by Lauren Fortgang – Known for her hardboiled and noir stories, Megan Abbott’s latest novel – reviewed here as an audiobook –  captures a darker side of sporting competition to coincide with the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. America’s queen of noir has written a psychological thriller…
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Features

Interview: Tami Hoag

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Tami Hoag is the best-selling American author of a number of mystery/thriller series. Her recent novel The Bitter Season is the sixth featuring Minneapolis police detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska. It’s a book with great energy, moving through the two parallel stories – a member of the…
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The Bends

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Written by Leah Devlin –– This current-day police procedural is the third in a series that takes place in and around the picturesque village of Woods Hole, located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Big water – Nantucket Sound, Cape Cod Bay, Buzzards Bay, the Atlantic –…
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The Kennedy Connection

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Written by RG Belsky — Author RG Belsky was most recently managing editor of news for NBCNews.com and a former managing editor for the New York Daily News, among other journalistic posts. That gives him ample experience to write authoritatively about his main character and first-person…
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The Heavenly Table

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Written by Donald Ray Pollock — In the early 20th century, the three Jewett brothers are under the thumb of their crazily religious, impoverished failure of a father. He’s working them practically to death in the swampy field they’re clearing near the Georgia-Alabama border. The…
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