The Lineup

Like the subtitle says, the world's greatest crime writers (including Michael Connelly, Robert Crais, Ian Rankin, and Lee Child) tell the inside stories of their greatest detectives.

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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