To keep readers motivated to turn pages, much fiction contains an element of mystery, even when the book isn't a genre mystery novel. Just as the unknown keeps the reader intrigued, it helps the ...

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If you saw the season-ending episode of The Mentalist, do you remember the clue that helped catch the killer? Me, neither. In the movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, what was the mistake Ryan ...

When I spoke to John Rechy, the author of After the Blue Hour, for this series, he took me through the first line of Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily”—a stunning sentence in which nothing is ...

The day that Marisa and Noelle Chow welcomed creative writing into their lives they knew they would learn skills that would last a lifetime. When they were in middle school, the sisters attended a ...

Writer and director Rian Johnson has hit his stride in making the murder mystery film anthology that began with Knives Out .