Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators ... in the art of running away from police work, marriages, children and responsibility. But as the meticulously constructed ...

Alexandra Carillo;Hachette Book Group Kate McKinnon has a message ... Secrets of the Purple Pearl. The mystery novel, expected to arrive this fall, marks another installment in her New York ...

And I thought to myself, after having written several mystery novels ... an artist who's worked on more than 25 kids books and designed ad campaigns for Broadway shows. "In the end, I did what ...