*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. According to Sisters in Crime, its 48 chapters of women mystery writers have more than 3,600 members across the world. In other ...

First we read Nancy Drew, girl detective. Then what? Women of Mystery explores the writing lives of three authors (Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton & Marcia Muller) who started a literary revolution and, in ...

Most readers will know that Agatha Christie died in 1976, having published 12 Miss Marple novels and several collections of Miss Marple stories. Christie also wrote Hercule Poirot mysteries, Tommy and ...

As if the nursing profession isn’t hard enough, the ICU nurse in Mary Kubica’s new mystery, “She’s Not Sorry,” unwittingly puts herself and her daughter in ...

Mystery fiction has changed drastically since 1930, the time frame for Marie Benedict’s clever and engaging “The Queens of Crime” set in England. Back then — in England and America — most best-sellers ...