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David A. Lloyd
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Ace Atkins On Cold War Childhoods, 1980s Pop Culture, and His New Spy Novel
The following interview has been mildly condensed and edited for clarity. Ace Atkins’ latest, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, is drenched in ‘80s nostalgia and style. It centers on Peter Benett,…
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December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Tom Stoppard’s Secret Indiana Jones Rewrites
This past weekend, we lost the great playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard. I can wax long and hard about how Stoppard was one of the greatest creative scholars of literary history, how he was b…
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December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Queer Crime Writers Presents: 10 New LGBTQIA+ Crime Novels to Check Out This Winter
As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, it’s the perfect season to pour a hot toddy, don your Snuggie, and disappear into a page-turning mystery or thriller that keeps you up far too late…
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December 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Why So Many Former Intelligence Officers Write Espionage Fiction
I had spotted the man earlier on. He didn’t quite fit in the usual mid-morning crowd. I was in one of those medieval European cities full of twisty streets that are useless for cars and little alle…
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December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Tracy Clark on Writing a Black Female Detective
Writers are always looking for ways to up the tension in their stories. Higher stakes are always better stakes; more conflict works better than less conflict. I thought about all of this while I wa…
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December 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Gianni Russo on the Mafia, Unions, and Why You’ll Never Find Jimmy Hoffa’s Remains
The Mafia has been hell on Union leaders who wouldn’t do the right thing. The most famous example of this is Jimmy Hoffa, who was erased from the face of the earth on July 30–31, 1975. He had been …
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December 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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#RememberTheirNames

On this day in 1989, an armed gunman who said he was "fighting feminism", murdered 14 women & injured 10 other women and 4 men at École Polytechnique de Montréal.

The massacre led to stronger gun control laws in Canada & changes to emergency procedures.
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Fiddling with some motion covers. Turned out better than expected.
December 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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The Five Funniest Far Side Cartoons About Detectives
The Far Side is the funniest comic strip in the world. It just is. I’ve already waxed on about my favorite Far Side cartoon for this website, but what about the others? There are a slew of cr…
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November 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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A Brief History of Computer Crime
In 1983, then-President Ronald Reagan screened the movie War Games at Camp David. He was alarmed by the movie’s premise—that someone could start a nuclear war with just a personal computer and a di…
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November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Our Fascination with People Who Vanish
A day like any other. A mother sets off from home to drive her two young daughters to school and after dropping them off heads to the river nearby to walk her dog. A routine morning – familiar, unr…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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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 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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David Baldacci on Pushing Your Characters Into the Unknown
When you’ve been in the writing business as long as I have, the one thing you need to constantly search for are stories that will challenge you as a novelist, get you out of your comfort zone, make…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Eli Frankel: I Was the Last Person to Interview the Black Dahlia Murder Witness.
On January 15, 1947, Betty Bersinger pushed her three-year-old daughter, Anne, in a stroller down a stretch of abandoned, weed-strewn lots on the outskirts of Los Angeles. The two blocks were pockm…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Top 5 Pregnant Women in Crime Movies and TV
Featured Image: TCD/Prod DB/Alamy   You know what’s hard? Pregnancy. I know this now because I am pregnant. And it’s hard. I won’t go into the details, but I’ll just sa…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Brotherhood of the Byline: Andrew and Lee Child on Jack Reacher, Past and Present
Of all the things Lee Child and Jack Reacher may have in common, the most obvious (besides their fundamental need for coffee) is that they are both individually and collectively larger than life. W…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Eli Frankel: I Was the Last Person to Interview the Black Dahlia Murder Witness.
On January 15, 1947, Betty Bersinger pushed her three-year-old daughter, Anne, in a stroller down a stretch of abandoned, weed-strewn lots on the outskirts of Los Angeles. The two blocks were pockm…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Respect what they gave you.
Respect them and all they lost.
Remember.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Cross The Line Book 2: "Blood Road"
Amazon.com: Cross The Line Book 2: "Blood Road": 9798224046683: Lloyd, David A: Books
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November 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Why ‘Honey Don’t’ Is the Subversive Queer Private Eye Movie for Today’s America
In the middle of Honey Don’t, the heroic private investigator, Honey O’Donahue, interrogates Rev. Drew Devlin, a hypocritical and megalomaniac minister of a small church in Bakersfield, California.…
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October 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Are We in the Golden Age of the Audio Thriller?
I love audio thrillers, and I’m not the only one. Maybe it’s a trickle-down effect from the true-crime podcast boom, or the leap in production quality, but crime and thriller novellas written speci…
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October 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Bestsellers to Blockbusters: Stephen King Reflects on the Adaptations of His Work
In 2025, four of my novels and two short stories were adapted either for films or as streaming TV shows. I find this befuddling, perplexing, and downright peculiar. Also—okay, yeah—pretty cool. Par…
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October 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM