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  2. New year, new books: Here are the categories for the 2024 # ...

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    The 2024 #ReadICT Challenge is a great way to expand your reading, stretch your literary comfort zone and commune with a vibrant and growing community of local readers.

  3. The Best American Mystery and Suspense - Wikipedia

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    The Best American Mystery and Suspense is an annual anthology of North American mystery and thriller stories. Prior to 2021, its title was The Best American Mystery Stories and it was published by Houghton Mifflin through the year 2017.

  4. Crime fiction - Wikipedia

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    Sherlock Holmes (foreground) oversees the arrest of a criminal; this hero of crime fiction popularized the genre.. Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, crime novel, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder. [1]

  5. Mystery fiction - Wikipedia

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    The locked-room mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction. The crime—almost always murder—is committed in circumstances under which it was seemingly impossible for the perpetrator to commit the crime and/or evade detection in the course of getting in and out of the crime scene. The genre was established in the 19th century.

  6. After-Dinner Story - Wikipedia

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    After-Dinner Story is a 1944 short story collection by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym William Irish.It comprises six stories, and includes two of Woolrich's best known works, novella Marihuana and Rear Window (originally published in Dime Detective Magazine under the title "It Had to be Murder"), [1] which was made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954.

  7. Linda Castillo - Wikipedia

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    The first book, Sworn to Silence (2009), was adapted into a Lifetime original movie titled An Amish Murder starring Neve Campbell. [4] She has also written numerous romance and romantic suspense novels. Castillo grew up in Arcanum, Ohio [5] and now lives in Texas with her husband. [6]

  8. Thriller (genre) - Wikipedia

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    Suspense is a crucial characteristic of the thriller genre. It gives the viewer a feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, anticipation, and tension. These develop from unpredictable, mysterious, and rousing events during the narrative, which makes the viewer or reader think about the outcome of certain actions.

  9. Category:Mystery and detective fiction awards - Wikipedia

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