Tag: thriller
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Edgar Awards 2026: What Mystery Writers Selected as The Best
This year’s winners include an unofficial “problem-solver” in Silicon Valley and a zealous journalist pursuing a fugitive who confessed to killing nine people as a teen. Links to winners, nominees.
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The March Sisters Struggle to Solve The Murder of Their Beloved Beth
I adored this thoroughly modern take on Little Women, featuring the March sisters as amateur sleuths uncovering who killed their beloved Beth. This propulsively written tale grapples with current issues, like social media.
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Left Coast Crime Awards 2026: Some Familiar Winners
Two 2026 winners are repeats from last year for their most recent novels featuring female protagonists. See the results of this year’s first big mystery awards for work in 2025.
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An Archaeologist Contends With An Unbelievable Discovery in this Fast-Moving Tale
Ancient stories and modern politics mix in this series debut about a Pakistani archaeologist faced with the find of a lifetime. But how it is related to her missing niece?
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Agatha Award Winners 2025: Celebrating Traditional Mysteries
This year’s winners include an historical cozy featuring the intrepid sister of the Wright Brothers and a thriller about a Vietnamese-American artist whose picture-perfect life is starting to unravel.
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A British Cop Thriller Led by a Wary and Whip-smart Protagonist
Detective Inspector Jan Talantire of the Devon and Cornwall Police is called away from a rare date to a murder echoing a similar stabbing from 50 years ago, complete with crucifix through the heart and the victim’s name, Ruth Lyle.
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A Flawed Protagonist Searches for the Missing, and Redemption
Frankie Elkin is an “average, middle-aged white woman” who travels from one missing-persons case to the next, dragging a single suitcase behind her. Think Jack Reacher, but with fewer muscles and more underwear.
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What Lies in the Woods: A Survivor’s Suspenseful Tale
A twist-filled tale about the resilience of little girls and the adults who are supposed to take care of them. I was cheering for our tough protagonist by the end, a grand finale I definitely didn’t see coming.
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