Mystery novels

Author Ayelet Waldman on Mysteries

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Kurt Andersen and author Ayelet Waldman talk about the magnetism of mysteries. Waldman is the author of the Mommy-track mysteries, Nursery Crimes and The Big Nap— thrillers that mix child-rearing with sleuthing. She is an adjunct professor at Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley and was a former public defender in Los Angeles. […]

Laurie King: Mystery Girl

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A Conversation with Elmore Leonard

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Encyclopedia Brown

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James Ellroy: Demon Dog of Crime Fiction

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Larsson’s last city

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We get literary for today’s Geo Quiz. We are looking for the city the 50-year-old Steig Larsson was living and working in, in 2004 when he died of a heart attack.

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