Novelist George Pelicanos' latest novel "The Blue Flame" shows private detective Derek Strange solving crimes in D.C.'s quieter neighborhoods, like Michigan Park, Shaw and Kenilworth.

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A hard-edged crime story about loyalty, secrets, desire, and the lies we tell out of something that might almost pass for kindness.

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A mother’s devotion is tested when she discovers evidence that could send her only son to prison.

The early Spanish explorers who made their way to the western coast of Florida, to what is now Pinellas County, came searching for treasure. But they found only primeval forest, which stretched to …

A heist is a very particular sort of crime with a very particular emotional hold over readers. Every time that I mention to someone that I’ve written a heist book, they tell me exactly how they wou…

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