Tag: mystery

The Boring Psychopath

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So I just finished reading a book about a serial killer. Sigh. There are a lot of books about serial killers out there. In fact, there may be more books about serial killers than there are actual serial killers. The attraction of these villains is obvious—they give an author license to come up with particularly […]

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Red Herrings

Posted on by Meg

I just finished reading a 370-page novel in which the nasty banker was revealed as a double murderer in the end. The thing is, I knew the banker was the baddie after the first fifty pages. Why? Because nobody else in the book had been set up as a possibility. So unless the writer wanted […]

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