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Charles Todd’s List of Christmas Mysteries

October 29, 2025 Mystery Center 0

When I was asked to make a list of beloved Christmas Mysteries there were certain authors that immediately came to mind. My list is made up of mysteries written in England in the nineteenth and […]

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Exclusive with Dr. Eleanor Johnson

October 15, 2025 Mystery Center 0

Interview by Sarah Cassell ABOUT THE BOOK: In May 2022, Columbia University’s Dr. Eleanor Johnson watched with her students as the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade. At the same time, her class was studying […]

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What It Takes to Write a Killer with Depth and a Victim with Agency

October 1, 2025 Mystery Center 0

Emma Stonex, The Sunshine Man Is a person ever a hundred percent evil? It’s a question that has long troubled humanity, and one that compelled me to write The Sunshine Man. What drives someone to […]

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10 Delightfully Cozy Mystery Novels with a Romantic Twist

October 1, 2025 Mystery Center 0

By Martha Waters As a romance author who spent her entire childhood devouring Nancy Drew books, it’s perhaps unsurprising that I developed a taste in adulthood for romantic cozy mysteries. Spare me grisly novels featuring […]

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On Pain and People: Saint Maud, Loneliness, and Staying Alive

October 1, 2025 Mystery Center 0

by Zefyr Lisowski “Never waste your pain,” the titular protagonist of Saint Maud says at two separate points of the 2019 film—first to a man asking for alms, and second in prayer to God shortly […]

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The Ticking Clock Structure

October 1, 2025 Mystery Center 0

by Holly Seddon At a 1970 American Film Institute seminar, Alfred Hitchcock outlined the difference between mystery and suspense. Mystery, he explained, is an intellectual process. In a whodunnit, the audience is being asked to […]

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