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Texas Monthly – I Think a Crime Bookstore Is the Best in Texas, So Stab Me

Texas Monthly – I Think a Crime Bookstore Is the Best in Texas, So Stab Me

Posted on October 16, 2023

For all of the foreboding tales within, Houston’s Murder by The Book feels soft and inviting, with massive windows up front and plenty of places inside to kick back and dig into something grisly. With its coffee mugs and T-shirts shouting out famous crime-solving heroes (plenty of “Holmes& Watson& Marple& Poirot” merch), the place looks downright friendly. “There’s a lot of natural light and, depending on the time of day, natural darkness,” says Lou Berney, an Edgar-winning thriller author, who always looks forward to reading from his novels at the venerable crime bookstore. “Events start out cheerful and end up kind of ominous and spooky. I love that.”Don Winslow, a dean of crime fiction, visits Murder by The Book whenever he’s on tour, including a…

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