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Kirkus Reviews chooses its “Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2025.”
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November 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Kirkus Reviews chooses its “Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2025.”
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What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
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🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Utah Judge Strikes Down GOP Gerrymander, Restores Voter-Approved Fair Map
Read more here.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
I've finally done a proper weeding-out of The Rap Sheet's extensive blogroll. therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-c...
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I've finally done a proper weeding-out of The Rap Sheet's extensive blogroll. therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-c...
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Found families are everything! crimereads.com/nine-crime-n...
Nine Crime Novels Featuring Found Families
My historical novel published in 2021, Death at Greenway, used research on the real people who had lived on the estate of Agatha Christie’s holiday home in the English Riviera during World War II. …
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November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Found families are everything! crimereads.com/nine-crime-n...
Janet Rudolph's updated collection of Veteran Day-related mysteries. mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2025/11/vete...
VETERANS DAY CRIME FICTION
Veterans Day, November 11, was originally known as Armistice Day ( also known as Remembrance Day ). Veterans Day commemorate...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Janet Rudolph's updated collection of Veteran Day-related mysteries. mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2025/11/vete...
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Alie Dumas-Heidt offers up the future her grandmother could not imagine crimereads.com/women-law-en...
From Spies and Matrons to Miami Vice: A Short History of Women in Law Enforcement
When I was a little girl, my grandmother asked the typical question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and I answered truthfully that I wanted to be a police officer. Honestly,…
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November 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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On returning to books! crimereads.com/the-crime-bo...
The Crime Books Top Authors Read Twice Because They’re Just That Good
When I asked suspense author Chris Pavone recently if there were any mysteries or thrillers he’d ever felt compelled to read a second time, his response was blunt: “Zero. Once the puzzle is solved,…
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November 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
On returning to books! crimereads.com/the-crime-bo...
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Here are this week's brand-new books! crimereads.com/10-new-books...
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Sarah Weinman, Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime (Ecco) &#…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Highly recommend Death by Lightning.
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‘Most horrific death you could imagine’: the truth behind Netflix’s Death by Lightning
The streamer’s new historical drama looks back on the often forgotten story of US president James Garfield whose progressive political career was cut horribly short
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November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Highly recommend Death by Lightning.
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Happy Claude Rains's birthday!
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Happy Claude Rains's birthday!
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Found the black bird at the Sacramento Airport!
#maltesefalcon #hammett #crimefiction #noir #photography
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November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Found the black bird at the Sacramento Airport!
#maltesefalcon #hammett #crimefiction #noir #photography
#maltesefalcon #hammett #crimefiction #noir #photography
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
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This coming January will bring us not only the publication of Max Allan Collins' "Return of the Maltese Falcon," but an expanded edition of Dashiell Hammett's original, 1929 novel that includes two Sam Spade sequel stories written by Mark Coggins. therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/11/that...
That Darn Bird Again, With Bonuses
I have mentioned before that Max Allan Collins has an excellent new book due for release from Hard Case Crime on January 6, 2026. Titled R...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This coming January will bring us not only the publication of Max Allan Collins' "Return of the Maltese Falcon," but an expanded edition of Dashiell Hammett's original, 1929 novel that includes two Sam Spade sequel stories written by Mark Coggins. therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/11/that...
"Now, in Vaseem Khan’s 'Quantum of Menace,' Major Boothroyd – AKA the gadget man Q – investigates a murder mystery. This is the first in the proposed Q Mystery Series." crimefictionlover.com/2025/11/quan...
Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan | Crime Fiction Lover
After he's forced into early retirement, James Bond character Q tries to solve the murder of a close friend in this 007 spinoff novel by Vaseem Khan
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November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"Now, in Vaseem Khan’s 'Quantum of Menace,' Major Boothroyd – AKA the gadget man Q – investigates a murder mystery. This is the first in the proposed Q Mystery Series." crimefictionlover.com/2025/11/quan...
"Lauren Oliver Recommends Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey, Un-su Kim, and More." crimereads.com/11-mystery-n...
11 Mystery Novels That Explore the Power of Rumors and Gossip
There is nothing more dangerous than a rumor. The kind of vicious whisper that spreads from person to person, warping and twisting the truth until it becomes unrecognizable—or even irrelevant. This…
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November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"Lauren Oliver Recommends Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey, Un-su Kim, and More." crimereads.com/11-mystery-n...
"'The Inn Closes for Christmas' has inhabited our family bookcases for decades, appearing in various editions and translations from the 1940s to the mid-1970s. Now, a lost classic rediscovered, it is back in a beautiful hardback edition ready for Christmas 2025!"
Two Daughters, One Mission and the return of Celtic Noir
How The Inn Closes for Christmas and Other Dark Tales Returned to the Light The Inn Closes for Christmas has inhabited our fami...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"'The Inn Closes for Christmas' has inhabited our family bookcases for decades, appearing in various editions and translations from the 1940s to the mid-1970s. Now, a lost classic rediscovered, it is back in a beautiful hardback edition ready for Christmas 2025!"
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I was just on Julie Mason's SiriusXM show talking about Dick Cheney...and the hundreds of thousands of people who died because of him.
David Corn on Tuesday's Election Results
With Julie Mason
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November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I was just on Julie Mason's SiriusXM show talking about Dick Cheney...and the hundreds of thousands of people who died because of him.
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Man @gavinnewsom’s team doesn’t mess around
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Man @gavinnewsom’s team doesn’t mess around
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In case you missed it... Gerald Mohr and Paul Picerni star in "Escape to Tampico," an episode of Maverick that repurposed many of the sets that were originally designed for Casablanca
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This Date in MAVERICK TV History: Gerald Mohr and Paul Picerni star in “Escape to Tampico,” airing Oct. 26, 1958. MAVERICK: LEGEND OF THE WEST: Revised Third Edition is now available both as an eBook ...
ESCAPE TO TAMPICO
Original Airdate: October 26, 1958
Synopsis. In New Orleans, aristocrat Raoul Gireaux offers Bret $6,000
to bring back Steve Corbett, who has fled to Tampico, Mexico after murderin...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
In case you missed it... Gerald Mohr and Paul Picerni star in "Escape to Tampico," an episode of Maverick that repurposed many of the sets that were originally designed for Casablanca
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Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?
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Digital comics platform @sweetdotdev.bsky.social Shop announces beta launch with 24 publishers www.comicsbeat.com/digital-comi... @comicsbeat.bsky.social
Digital comics platform Sweet Shop announces beta launch with 24 publishers
Sweet Shop, a new digital comics platform promising better UX and tools, is launching in invite-only beta debuting with Image Comics
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November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Digital comics platform @sweetdotdev.bsky.social Shop announces beta launch with 24 publishers www.comicsbeat.com/digital-comi... @comicsbeat.bsky.social