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Top Ten Blog Posts of 2016

December 30, 2016 Mystery Center 0

(2016 has been a banner for the Strand’s blog, our blog has been a hit with readers all around the world with over 100,000 hits per month. Here’s a sampling of our ten most popular […]

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Top Ten Mysteries Set in Italy

December 29, 2016 Sandrone Dazieri 0

Top Ten Mysteries Set in Italy Ever since the time of Julius Caesar, Italy has had a certain tradition of conspiracy and enigmatic murders; until recently, however, the mystery genre was considered something foreign. Italian writers […]

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Book Review: The Beautiful Dead

December 28, 2016 CHRISTOPHER Chan 0

Book Review: The Beautiful Dead The Beautiful Dead By Belinda Bauer Atlantic Monthly Press 2016 $25.00 The Beautiful Dead is the story of Eve Singer, a television reporter specializing in crime cases. When a twist of fate […]

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Beyond the Twilight Saga – Five mystery/thrillers set in the Pacific Northwest

December 27, 2016 A.J. Banner 0

Beyond the Twilight Saga – Five mystery/thrillers set in the Pacific Northwest By A.J. Banner, author of The Twilight Wife (January; Touchstone) A few years ago, Business Insider named Twilight the most famous book set in Washington state. But […]

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TOP TEN WARTIME THRILLERS

December 23, 2016 Rennie Airth 0

TOP TEN WARTIME THRILLERS Although war itself tends to push thrillers into the background—how can even the most ruthless murderer compete with the wholesale carnage that ensues when nations take up arms—along with other writers, […]

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Five Scary Children in Fiction

December 22, 2016 Jane Corry 0

Scary children don’t always have to draw blood. They can send shivers down your spine. They might make you question your own morals. They are manipulative. Or they terrify you because they are so naive […]

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Top Ten Midwestern Mysterious Tales…

December 20, 2016 Cheryl Honigford 0

Top Ten Midwestern Mysterious Tales… I’ve always loved a good mystery – especially those with a paranormal element. As a child, I watched reruns of “In Search Of” religiously every Saturday afternoon and begged my […]

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Ten of the Best CREEPY THRILLER NOVELS

December 15, 2016 Jennifer McMahon 0

Ten of the Best CREEPY THRILLER NOVELS We have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Best creepy sisters book ever! One of the many things Shirley Jackson does so well is to portray the way […]

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You’ve read Nordic, dabbled with Tartan, but what about Sunburnt Noir?

December 14, 2016 Aoife Clifford 0

You’ve read Nordic, dabbled with Tartan, but what about Sunburnt Noir? Recently, a few crime writers and readers on Twitter had a stab at coming up with a snappy identifier for Australian crime fiction. My […]

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10 Great Science Fiction Mysteries you may never have heard of…

December 13, 2016 Henry V. ONeil 0

10 Great Science Fiction Mysteries you may never have heard of… (10 Great Science Fiction Mysteries you may never have heard of showcases those works that won’t make top ten lists but will be enjoyed […]

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