Simone St. James’ “The Sun Down Motel” (2020) has a structure that’s almost like cheating. Twenty-ish Viv investigates cold cases in 1982 while working at
J.K. Rowling (under the pen name Robert Galbraith) continues to push the boundary of how involved a mystery novel can be with “The Hallmarked Man”
In “E is for Evidence” (1988), there’s evidence that Sue Grafton underwrites key parts of the mystery. While this fifth Kinsey Millhone book has compelling
The Smurl family home in “The Conjuring: Last Rites” includes peeling wallpaper in the stairwell, an accidental metaphor for the way the film uses top-shelf
“D is for Deadbeat” (1987), and also for “downbeat,” in Sue Grafton’s fourth Kinsey Millhone mystery. The private eye spends her whole time on the
“C is for Corpse” (1986), appropriately, has the most Character of the Kinsey Millhone series up to this point. Kinsey becomes comfortable in her own
“Echoes of Guilt” (February, paperback and digital), by L.T. Ryan with Laura Chase, is one of hundreds or maybe thousands of modern books that serves
“Murdaugh: Death in the Family” (Wednesdays, Hulu) is the very definition of a mystery where you peel back layers. It can be enjoyed either by
For Dr. Nick Riviera of “The Simpsons,” “B” is for bargain, but for the second book in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series, “B is for
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s “Badlands” (June, hardcover) is comfortingly familiar: a New Mexico badlands setting, a weird mystery, and anthropologist Nora Kelly and young