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Favorite Mysteries for Bibliophiles

By Deborah Lacy

January 3, 2013

If you love books, what could be better than reading books about books, or books about being inside books or people who get to hang around books. (That was a statement, not a question.) Here are some of my favorite bibliophile mysteries and thrillers. The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game by Carlos…

The Mysteries of Mysterious Bookstores

By William I. Lengeman III

January 6, 2012

Readers of mystery fiction may or may not be the most avid fans of their particular genre but they’ve got to be high on the list. Which might go a long way toward explaining why so much mystery fiction takes place in and around bookstores, and particularly mystery bookstores. It would take someone much better…