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murder mystery

Movie Review: Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion

By sara.eslami

January 4, 2023

If you haven’t watched the movie, stop reading since there are massive spoilers ahead.  Photo Credit: T-Street Productions Can we take a second and fully inbreathiate what an extraordinary movie Glass Onion was? Simultaneously layered as a whodunit and a revenge story, Rian Johnson creates something so complex, so outlandish, and yet at the same…

My Favorite Agatha Christie Novels, for Reasons You May Not Expect

By Mur Lafferty

October 13, 2022

When I started writing space murder mysteries, I went to the master for inspiration: Agatha Christie. I didn’t read all of her books, but I read my favorites multiple times, trying to coax out every clue, red herring, and other uniquely-Christie nuggets she slipped in. Her books are obviously brilliant, but as I delved deeper,…

Book Review: The Storyteller’s Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal

By Doreen Sheridan

October 12, 2022

When Isla Larsen Sanchez was eight years old, her mother Elena sent her to Puerto Rico by herself for the first time, flying from New Jersey in the care of a flight attendant, as was usual for the 1970s. Ordinarily, Isla would spend summers in the town where her mother grew up, with both her…

Book Review: The Self-Made Widow by Fabian Nicieza

By Doreen Sheridan

June 24, 2022

So, full disclaimer, I’ve been a huge fan of Fabian Nicieza since the 1990s, when he wrote multiple X-Men titles for Marvel Comics. When I heard that he had moved into writing novels, I was ecstatic. Mortifyingly, I have not yet had time to pick up the first book in the Suburban Dicks series, but…

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