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Channel your inner detective with some of our favorite whodunnits.

Molly Gray, the heroine of “The Mystery Guest,” has inherited a trove of chipper maxims from her late grandmother, known as Gran, but the one she repeats most often is this gem about making hasty assu...

'The Mystery Guest,' the second installment in Nita Prose's Maid Novels series, is both a delightful whodunit and a pointed social commentary.

Headed for the holidays, we round up 6 gift-able mystery novels and ask their authors — from Lee Goldberg to Tess Gerritsen — three things we're dying to know.

Many opportunities to celebrate Earth Week in Red Wing are coming up.

Take advantage of your snowy retreat away from the world and dive into the pages of these seven books by Black authors to savor on your ski trip.

More on why it's essential to know what IDs your cruise line requires long before you leave home.

The Black experience is a very broad subject that by itself could take up a whole novel, but when it comes to representation in media, the story seems to narrow quite a bit. A lot of African-American books were written during times of hardship and expressed those themes. These books showcase other sides of the...

Why Barbara Neely Is Indeed a Grand Master By Oline H Cogdill Mystery fiction has been a major part of my life since I was a child. I’ve said so many times that I have never read a Nancy Drew or a Hardy Boys—I started with Agatha Christie, Rex Stout, etc. In the beginning, these were just entertaining stories, puzzles to figure out, characters who didn’t resemble anyone I knew. But as I got older, mysteries began to encompass new writers who introduced readers to different worlds. (Thank...

Author Tracy Clark says today’s fictional detectives can be women of color—and they can save themselves.