2+ hour, 54+ min ago  (151+ words) Dark Thoughts (Other Stories), Hope Thompson | January 6 The Case of the Murdered Muckraker, Rob Osler | January 27 Hurricane Season Hustle, Greg Herren | February 6 Swallow the Shadows: A Sloan West Mystery, CJ Downer | February 12 The Summer Before We Left, Tom Gloude Whittaker…...

3+ hour, 25+ min ago  (180+ words) Another key bit of news was that the plane had inexplicably veered almost 300 miles off course before ditching in the Atlantic. For two days, newspaper coverage focused on a single report from a B-29 search plane that survivors on one or…...

3+ hour, 55+ min ago  (509+ words) When I was writing my debut espionage thriller The Silver Fish (Mysterious Press, April 7), I set myself a challenge: could I tell a ripping spy story grounded in real-world foreign policy issues? These are the questions animating the book's American…...

18+ hour, 25+ min ago  (925+ words) Spooky children are a timeless horror trope. In fact, the only thing spookier than a ghostly, potentially evil child in a scary story is'two'ghostly, potentially evil children. Not all of the twins on this list are children, and only some…...

19+ hour, 50+ min ago  (548+ words) But us, clever readers; we know better. The promise made by that wide sweep of land is an illusion, as skewed by our hope as the horizon is skewed by the rising heat from the asphalt. After all, why do…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (237+ words) When plotting my novel, I found myself revisiting the bad dates from my past. One particularly bad date came to mind with a man we'll call "Tim." (Mostly because I can't remember his real name. For all I know, it…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (582+ words) Some crimes aren't illegal. Consider the plight of many migrant workers from Southeast Asia who enter Taiwan in search of opportunity only to be overcharged and exploited in an opaque bureaucracy dominated by job brokers. Like many countries with advanced…...

2+ day, 27+ min ago  (1328+ words) We also thought we were drinking well. We called Gato Negro, at about $8. 99, the good wine." On this particular night, as my girlfriend made dinner, I was watching the TV in our bedroom, sitting on the floor on the pumpkin-colored…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1710+ words) I first got on Gloria and Sergio's trail shortly after returning from Africa, where I'd been searching for a Philadelphia file clerk who had disappeared from his job only to pop up, months later, deep in the jungle as one…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (596+ words) One day, they are on top of the world, basking in the literal and proverbial spotlight, the subject of global obsession and speculation'hounded by reporters, adored by millions of fans. And the next, they're simply gone. The cultural zeitgeist is…...