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Mystery novelist Alison Gaylin has built a career exploring obsession, secrets, and the dark corners of modern life. An Edgar Award winner known for novels like 'The Collective and If I Die Tonight,' Gaylin has also stepped into the world of Robert B. Parker, continuing his beloved Sunny Randall series.In 'Robert B. Parker’s Booked,' Boston private investigator Sunny Randall is hired by a bestselling author to uncover the identity of an online reviewer whose brutal takedowns are threatening careers. But when the critic turns up dead, the literary feud becomes a murder case tangled in grudges, publishing politics, and social media fury.

James Lasdun's latest is 'The Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh,' turns to the real-life Southern saga that captivated the country. Lasdun digs beneath the headlines surrounding disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh, tracing generations of privilege, power, corruption, and violence in South Carolina’s Lowcountry.The result is part true-crime page-turner, part portrait of a family dynasty collapsing in public. His novels, memoir, poetry, and short story collections have won many awards, and his essays have appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, and The New Yorker, among other publications.

Robert Buskey was arrested in April 2024 after prosecutors say the 35-year-old man locked his daughter alone in a room without sustenance.

Fay Mohamed died on Feb. 25 from injuries sustained in January.

A Cropseyville man, who in June shot and killed three members of his family, was sentenced Wednesday.

The district attorneys of Bennington County in Vermont and Berkshire County in Massachusetts have announced the closure of kidnapping and murder cases that date back to the 1980s.

The man accused of killing his 9-year-old daughter and hiding her body was arraigned in Essex County Court today.

Early Sunday morning, an Amber Alert reported 9-year-old Melina Frattolin as missing. On Monday, New York State Police said the alert was based on a false report by the girl’s father, Luciano Frattolin, who has now been charged with murder.

"The Angel Makers" is a true-crime story like no other. In the book, by Patti McCracken, a 1920s midwife who may have been the century’s most prolific killer leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 men.

In “I Have Some Questions for You,” award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted an investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman’s reckoning with her past.