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WIN: Mysteries of the Unknown. The creepy, the kooky, the mysterious and spooky

What really happened to Amelia Earhart? Is the Kennedy family truly cursed? Do the spirits of the dead haunt a house in Amityville, Long Island? And why did it take the Boston Red Sox 86 years to win a World Series after selling Babe Ruth to the hated rival New…

Michael RuscoeOctober 26, 2014

Fiction

Jonesin’ for a Fix: Books for TV Addicts — Longmire edition

Despite being unexpectedly cancelled by A&E after three seemingly successful seasons, there’s still hope for Sheriff Walt Longmire and Absaroka County, Wyoming. Insiders report that the Longmire team is preparing pitches for possible suitors, chief among them Netflix (a logical choice because the first two seasons—and soon the third—are already…

Jordan FosterSeptember 13, 2014

Fiction

Solving the mystery of Tana French; one of fall’s most eagerly awaited novels

When I was a kid, my parents had a thing for Murder, She Wrote. We’d watch every week, competing to guess whodunit, how, and why. And somehow, one Sunday, it clicked for me: the culprit was always the extra person, the one whose absence (minus that PG offing in Act…

Tracy ManasterSeptember 9, 2014

Fiction

Jonesin’ for a Fix: Books for TV Addicts — Brooklyn Nine-Nine edition

How does one describe FOX’s freshman hit, Brooklyn Nine-Nine? I’ll let the show’s star, Andy Samberg, do it for me: “We’re a like a family with two black dads, two white sons, two Latina daughters and a strange baby thing.” If that sounds like stunt casting to you, don’t be…

JeriAnn GellerSeptember 6, 2014

Fiction

Orphan Black books that will take the edge off waiting for Season 3

Calling all #CloneClub members! How are you holding up since the Season 2 finale of Orphan Black? I bet you’re still jamming to the catchy tune from that epic clone dance scene. If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably checked yourself into Clonehab and are shaking life a leaf desperately…

McKenzie MorrellJuly 19, 2014

Thrillers

Andrew Gross on why it’s sexy to write women as heroes

What would you do, if, on the day your whole life was crashing down around you, fate threw you a chance to turn it all around—would you take it? Would you take that chance, even if it were illegal, immoral, and dangerous? Hilary Cantor, the desperate single mom in Andrew…

Joanna PoncavageApril 25, 2014

Fiction

Video: Missed It? Live Interview with Ariel Lawhon, Author of THE WIFE, THE MAID, AND THE MISTRESS

“More meticulously choreographed than a chorus line. It all pays off.” –THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW THE WIFE, THE MAID, AND THE MISTRESS A wickedly entertaining novel that reconstructs one of America’s most famous unsolved mysteries–the disappearance of Justice Joseph Crater in 1930–as seen through…

BookTribApril 2, 2014

Young Adult

What I learned from being dead: Amy Talkington’s LIV, FOREVER

Young adult fiction is always looking for the “next big thing.” Whether it’s vampires inspired by Twilight, or Hunger Games-style dystopian novels, teen readers often seem to take to specific genres in flocks. At times, this can make the shelves in bookstores look strangely identical, with dark fonts splashed across…

Rachel CarterMarch 22, 2014

Nonfiction

Barbara Mertz Dead: Mystery Writer Dies At 85

NEW YORK — Barbara Mertz, a best-selling mystery writer who wrote dozens of novels under two pen names, has died. She was 85. Mertz died Thursday morning at her home, in Frederick, Md., her daughter Elizabeth told her publisher HarperCollins. Mertz wrote more than 35 mysteries under the name Elizabeth…

BookTribAugust 13, 2013

WIN: Mysteries of the Unknown. The creepy, the kooky, the mysterious and spooky

Jonesin’ for a Fix: Books for TV Addicts — Longmire edition

Solving the mystery of Tana French; one of fall’s most eagerly awaited novels

Jonesin’ for a Fix: Books for TV Addicts — Brooklyn Nine-Nine edition

Orphan Black books that will take the edge off waiting for Season 3

Andrew Gross on why it’s sexy to write women as heroes

Video: Missed It? Live Interview with Ariel Lawhon, Author of THE WIFE, THE MAID, AND THE MISTRESS

What I learned from being dead: Amy Talkington’s LIV, FOREVER

Barbara Mertz Dead: Mystery Writer Dies At 85

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