“The impudence of a bawd is modesty compared with that of a convert,” said George Savile, the first marquess of Halifax. The comparison between prostitution and performative religious zeal may sound ...

Mysteries and thrillers are enjoyable no matter the season, but there's something extra satisfying about curling up in the winter with a warm drink and an all-engrossing read. The 13 (spooked already?

The author of the City Spies series chooses 7 crime novels that invite young readers to discover the culprit before the characters do. By James Ponti James Ponti is the Edgar Award-winning author of ...

The holiday season is the perfect time to get lost in a good mystery or thriller. A particularly well-crafted one can take your mind off the stress that comes with the end of the year, and the books ...

Fans of the Madame Blanc Mysteries have been given a first look at the 2025 Christmas special in the form of an explosive new trailer. The feature length festive special, which has a 120 minute ...

As the new Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man, is released on streaming, here are more ingenious – and confounding – whodunnits to watch and read. When Rian Johnson's Knives Out was released in 2019, ...

Walking along the flank of Medicine Mountain, I could see this wasn’t a typical hike in the Rockies. At over 9,500 feet in elevation, I was following a dirt track across a windswept ridgeline in the ...

Some of the most beautiful sights in nature are also mysterious. There are sand dunes that seem to sing and a dazzlingly pink lake in Australia. While researchers have theories for many of them, ...