By Alice Henderson 1. The River of Souls by Robert McCammon In 1703, detective Matthew Corbett journeys up the Solstice River in the Carolinas in search of an accused murderer. There he encounters strange settlements steeped in mysticism and eerie stories of a mythical beast hunting humans in the fetid landscape. But nothing will stop […]
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The War Followed Them Home: Five Mystery Books Set in the Aftermath of World War 2
By Shaina Steinberg My mother was born in 1948. Looking back at the photos and advertisements from her youth, you would never know less than three years before she arrived, Europe was engulfed by a brutal, bloody war that spared neither soldier nor civilian. Even those in the relative safety of America were fighting their […]
From Typewriters to Time Travel: Keeping a Crime Series Fresh Since 1988
By David Handler The Man Who Swore He’d Never Go Home Again is my sixteenth mystery featuring the dapper celebrity ghostwriter Stewart Hoag and his faithful, breath-challenged basset hound Lulu. I’m often asked by readers how it’s possible to keep a crime series that I launched way back in 1988 fresh. Actually, there’s a peculiar […]