Another Golden Age classic author is Ngaio Marsh, and this is the first of her novels to feature gentleman detective Roderick Alleyn. (She wrote 32 Alleyn novels!) A Man Lay Dead is the tale of a ...

In the famous opening sentence of his 1836 essay, “Nature,” Ralph Waldo Emerson declared that “Our age is retrospective.” If true once, this hardly seems so anymore in a digital era of relentless ...

Authors Freida McFadden, Lisa Jewell, Stephen King and more made the list — see if your favorite did too! Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print ...

What makes for the perfect audiobook? The format has been around ever since Thomas Edison recited that first poem – “Mary Had a Little Lamb” – into the phonograph back in 1877. Spoken word was, after ...

Lauren Muñoz is a writer, lawyer, and former teacher living in Southern California. Here, Muñoz discusses her love of classic detective fiction and bringing an authentic Latinx voice to the mystery ...