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50 Best Christmas Mysteries for the Holidays

Christmas mysteries are great books to cuddle up with to get into the holiday spirit for lovers of detective and crime novels. I think the first Christmas mystery I ever read was Deck the Halls by Mary Higgins Clark, though it’s been so long that I don’t remember anything about it. Still, I often like …

Lovecraft Country Season 1, Episode 6: Meet Me in Daegu Recap

Lovecraft Country, Episode 6 (“Meet Me in Daegu”) opens by introducing a character that’s been hinted at (and seen via a strange vision) in earlier episodes, Ji-Ah. The show has established that Atticus knows her from his soldiering days, but it’s not clear what that relationship was or how it came about. In the Fall …

50 Best Cozy Mystery Books & Series

This post is all about cozy mysteries (“cozies”)! These books usually come in series, but there are some that are published as standalone novels, too. I’ve been looking into this genre more recently, since I love a good mystery but I haven’t have much of a taste for really graphic or depressing books as of …

Three Body Problem Netflix TV Series: What We Know

The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu is being adapted into a Netflix series by Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. What’s it about? What’s the plot? The Three Body Problem is a science fiction trilogy (“The Three-Body Problem,” “The Dark Forest,” and “Death’s End” ) set against the backdrop of the …

Lovecraft Country Season 1, Episode 5: Strange Case Recap

Lovecraft Country, Episode 5 (“Strange Case”) opens with Ruby wakes up in William’s house to find herself in the body of a white woman. She frantically runs out and away from there. She’s in the street when she run into into a young black boy. The police pull up, accuse the boy of hurting her …