Vote for Your Favorite God from American Gods

Elsa Hart stops by to share eight of her favorite crime short stories. Add these to your TBR, and also make sure to save room for The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne, the first book in a new atmospheric mystery series set in 1703 London—a time when the old approaches to science coexist with the new,…

Desert Island Books with Anna Downes

By Anna Downes

July 13, 2020

Ever since I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. When I was a child, you couldn’t enter our house without catching snippets of Michael Parkinson or Sue Lawley chatting to Joanna Lumley, Eric Clapton, or Princess Michael of Kent about their most treasured pieces of music. As…

Counterpart: The Best Show You’re Not Watching

By Abe Friedtanzer

February 16, 2019

If you haven’t heard of the TV series Counterpart, you’re not alone, but it’s time to get familiar with it. The news from earlier this week that the show has been cancelled by Starz just ahead of its second season finale is immensely disappointing, but each of the twenty episodes already produced is absolutely worth…

Vote for Your Favorite Seasonal Setting in a Mystery

By Crime HQ

September 4, 2018

Labor Day has passed again, and as we watch summer turn to fall, we got to thinking about using seasons as a setting. Whether it’s the bleakness of winter or the dog days of summer, the time of year can really affect the tone and setting of a story—especially in a mystery. So we want to…

Vote for Your Favorite God from American Gods

By Crime HQ

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Eight of Elsa Hart’s Favorite Crime Short Stories

By Elsa Hart

Desert Island Books with Anna Downes

By Anna Downes

Counterpart: The Best Show You’re Not Watching

By Abe Friedtanzer

Vote for Your Favorite Seasonal Setting in a Mystery

By Crime HQ