Discover the top 5 books to read if you enjoyed Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials. From Richard Osman to Ruth Ware, these mystery ...

Plot: With the Civil War raging, Abraham Lincoln mourns his dead 11-year-old son, Willie, in a Georgetown cemetery, returning ...

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As the year comes to an end, we've been looking at 2025 trends. Today - audiobooks. The latest figures show romantasy is still strong. Celebrity memoirs, not so much. NPR's Andrew Limbong has more.

While working on Wake Up Dead Man, director Rian Johnson read a lot of John Dixon Carr, a classic mystery novelist who specialized in locked-door mysteries. Johnson explains, “The Hollow Man is ...

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When I was in my early teens, I was both a devout churchgoer and an avid reader of mysteries. One of my favorite writers was P.D. James, whose Anglican faith informed her fiction in subtle ways. For ...

Is geography destiny? Is heredity fate? Does nature trump nurture? Such questions haunt the leading figures in three of 2025’s outstanding works of crime fiction. The title character in Ron Currie’s ...

Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Sarah Weinman Sometimes I want to spend time with characters I can root for, ordinary ...