Kendare Blake’s “Frankie the Vampire Slayer” trilogy – about Willow’s immaculate witch-Slayer daughter and her Gen-Z Scooby Gang – wraps with “Against the Darkness” (2024).
If a Raymond Chandler fan has read the seven Philip Marlowe novels, they’ll be happy to know they aren’t quite done yet. “Trouble is My
John D. MacDonald challenges the definition of what a mystery can be in “The Green Ripper” (1979), his 18th Travis McGee novel. It starts as
Minka Kent brings us directly into the mind of a sociopath in “Imaginary Strangers” (2024). But this isn’t a stereotypically violent sociopath; rather, homemaker and
Travis McGee is a spiritual continuation of Philip Marlowe, but with a difference that’s nicely illustrated in “The Dreadful Lemon Sky” (1974), John D. MacDonald’s
Travis McGee is John D. MacDonald’s continuation of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe in the timeline of knights-errant transposed into 20th century American crime detection, and
Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008) wrote more than 100 novels, so it’s no wonder he desired to have some fun and mix things up. Attacking the
For an author who believed strongly in the rules of murder mysteries (in a nutshell, playing fair with the reader and being true to reality),
In the great 2000 “Once and Again” episode “Booklovers,” Lily is disturbed to learn that both her boyfriend Rick and her ex-husband Jake find “In
Dorothy Sayers marks the occasion of her 10th Lord Peter Wimsey bow, “Gaudy Night” (1935), with a novel that’s messy, socially fascinating, narratively ambitious, unwieldy,