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Fiction

Elly Griffiths Reinvents Crime Fiction with a Time-Traveling Twist

Elly Griffiths began her career with a charming series of women’s romantic fiction set in Italy under her birth name, Domenica de Rosa, before becoming an immensely successful mystery writer whose work is widely translated and published in many countries, with over five million copies sold. Born in London and…

Linda HitchcockAugust 4, 2025

Fiction

Exiled Investigator Returns in Nilima Rao’s Gripping Historical Mystery Series

Rising star in global crime fiction Nilima Rao has delivered on her promise of a second installment of her charming, arresting historical mystery series about Police Sergeant Akal Singh. It debuted in 2024 with the award-winning, critically lauded A Disappearance in Fiji. Her current novel, A Shipwreck in Fiji, delves…

Linda HitchcockAugust 1, 2025

Fiction

Sweet Treats and Sharp Twists: A Deliciously Deadly Mystery

When you look up the definition for cozy reads in the dictionary (or rather search for the definition on Google), you will see the cover of Icing On The Murder by Valerie Burns, the fourth installment of her Baker Street Mystery series. Set in New Bison, Michigan (a fictional town),…

Deirdre PippinsJuly 31, 2025

Young Adult

Even in Death, We Burn Bright: A Haunting Tale of Magic, Grief and Second Chances

If you ever thought purgatory was just a quiet waiting room in the afterlife, Immortal Consequences by I. V. Marie is here to shock you. This young adult fantasy dives headfirst into a richly imagined world where death isn’t the end; it’s just the beginning of another journey filled with…

Sunday Juliet AdakuJuly 30, 2025

Listicles

Can A Book Become a Main Character?

You walk to your gate at the airport, pick a chair, stash your suitcase, and see, sitting next to you, a person reading the same book you are. You could talk to that person instantly, right? Because the book gives you common ground. It’s the reason you’re reading this article…

Hank Phillippi RyanJuly 29, 2025

Listicles

8 Books that Prove History Is Never Neutral

Some scars don’t fade and some threats don’t disappear. They evolve, adapt and burrow into the cracks of modern life, waiting … These thrillers don’t just tell stories, but rather dig up what we thought was buried — ideologies dressed in new skin, Cold War ghosts whispering through modern politics,…

Monique SnymanJuly 22, 2025

Miscellany

How Modern Research and Fiction Illuminate Family Legacy

Family legacy has long captivated our imagination, whether in the form of domestic thrillers like The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell; classic stage plays like Shakespeare’s Hamlet; sweeping historical epics like Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex; or intimate personal narratives like Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. From hidden betrayals to whispered curses,…

Daco S AuffenordeJuly 1, 2025

Miscellany Young Adult

Missing: Stories About Black American Muslim Teens in YA Fiction

Unfortunately, Black American Muslim teens are rarely the main characters in traditionally-published, contemporary young adult novels. In 2017, I was shocked when I learned at my local library there wasn’t a single title available. That abysmal statistic pushed me to start writing these types of stories. More than once, I’ve…

Khadijah VanBrakleJune 30, 2025

Miscellany

Where the Writer Ends and the Story Begins

It’s the most paradoxical idea of all. Somehow, it’s both the most tempting and the most potentially disastrous. Because if we’re supposed to “write what you love” and “write what you fear,” all of us have those same passions and apprehensions about the same thing: writing! So what could be…

Hank Phillippi RyanMay 23, 2025

Listicles Young Adult

7 YA Fantasy Novels That Invent Captivating New Creatures

Sometimes you really just need to get out of your own life by getting into a book. A 600-page Russian drama? Not it. A thought-provoking nonfiction book that scares you into believing society truly is doomed? Not it. A cheery positivity book about gratitude? Overcompensating. What’s a reader to do?…

Judy MorenoJanuary 25, 2022

Fiction Listicles

Six Culturally Conscious, Conversation-Starting Science Fiction Novels

Science Fiction immerses the reader in an alternate universe, hooking us in with a stirring narrative and intricate world-building. Along the way, it can also challenge us to take a good look at our own reality, and question it with an imaginative, open mind. Imagination is an integral element to…

Wyatt SemenukOctober 25, 2022

Fiction

Anthony Horowitz Delivers a Devilishly Clever Meta-Mystery in “Marble Hall Murders”

Anthony Horowitz serves up a stylish contemporary golden-age murder mystery with whipped cream and a cherry on top with Marble Hall Murders. It’s a literary novel within a literary novel written with tremendous intelligence, humor, hidden clues, playful word games and anagrams that will keep readers actively engaged with literary…

Linda HitchcockJune 20, 2025

Listicles

8 Novels That Explore The Shadowed World of Art and Forgeries

Fiction is an art form that opens human nature for us. From our comfortable armchairs, sipping a cup of tea or our beverage of choice, we dip into shoes, worlds, universes, and experiences that are not our own, but expand our sympathy, humanity, and empathy — and also our knowledge.…

Katherine ReayJune 4, 2025

Recommended Thrillers

Hidden Identities and Global Conspiracies Revealed in Dark Thriller

A shadowy elite plan to enslave the world will succeed if good people do nothing … but in J.H. Jones’ ambitious and imaginative Rogue Unit: Awakening, there are still a few good men and women willing to fight back. David Smith, an Office of Naval Intelligence investigator posing as an…

BookTribJune 16, 2025

Listicles

6 Books That Helped Me Get Into the Mind of a Killer

In No Lie Lasts Forever, a retired serial killer coaxes a disgraced journalist into finding the imposter trading on his name. I never thought I would write a “serial killer novel,” but when an idea clamps its teeth down and won’t let go, well, you succumb and start doing your…

Mark StevensJune 2, 2025

Fiction

NYT Bestselling Author Nikki Erlick Explores Grief and Humanity in “The Poppy Fields”

New York Times bestselling author Nikki Erlick has a way of concocting the most implausible premises and making them sound plausible, compelling and thought-provoking. Take her debut novel, The Measure, an instant bestseller, in which everybody on earth opens their front doors on the same day to find a small…

Jim AlkonJune 10, 2025

Can A Book Become a Main Character?

8 Books that Prove History Is Never Neutral

How Modern Research and Fiction Illuminate Family Legacy

Missing: Stories About Black American Muslim Teens in YA Fiction

Where the Writer Ends and the Story Begins

7 YA Fantasy Novels That Invent Captivating New Creatures

8 Novels That Explore The Shadowed World of Art and Forgeries

6 Books That Helped Me Get Into the Mind of a Killer

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