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When you sit down to write a story, sometimes the hardest part can be just getting started. After all, the beginning of a tale ...

Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is Culpability by Bruce Holsinger.

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A one-two punch of grindhouse horror from one of the craft’s most inventive practitioners.

On the eve of World War II, a motley crew intent on reconnecting with the past motors out to a former hospital for servicemen from the Great War, where two impossible crimes will abruptly diminish ...

An ordinary woman finds extraordinary adventures on a river cruise on the Seine.

In Marriott’s mystery sequel, a retired homicide detective reluctantly investigates a murder in Greece.

Wycoff, a self-described “white-skinned” kid whose mother was white and father was Black, writes that he’s always lived an “identity-confused life.” Raised in the predominantly Black, 29-acre housing ...

Bob lives an uneventful snail life until one evening, after a series of sounds—a scream, three stomps, a crack, a drip, and a “POOF!”—he finds himself utterly changed. Bob is now a vampire! He’s also ...

A doctor copes with the anguish of dying children in this searching medical memoir.

Gould (Can’t Buy Me Love, 2007) begins his biography of art-rock legends Talking Heads with an account of the band’s first show at legendary New York club CBGB, writing that the performance didn’t ...