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New Mystery and Thriller Books to Read | November 3

Hold on to the edge of your seat as we hunt for clues and solve the case with these exciting new mystery and thriller books for the week! There are so many authors with new novels for you to dive into this week including Graham J Young, Sandeep Adnani, Katherine Walker, A.W. Baldwin, Michael Connelly, and more. Enjoy your new mystery, thriller, and suspense novels. Happy reading!

NewInBooks · EN

Homer may never have said Ithaca was an island

A 3,000-year-old geography puzzle hides inside the Odyssey. YouTuber Honor Cargill-Martin examines an odd twist in the search for Homer's Ithaca: he may never actually have described Ithaca as an island at all. Researchers spent decades, longer than Odysseus's trip home, looking for an island. — Read the rest The post Homer may never have said Ithaca was an island appeared first on Boing Boing .

Boing Boing · EN

A 50-year-old mystery of vanishing frogs reveals a hidden killer

A nearly 50-year-old mystery involving disappearing frogs in Brazil may finally be solved, with scientists uncovering evidence that a deadly fungus swept through the region and devastated vulnerable species. Remarkably, many frog populations have since rebounded, suggesting they developed greater tolerance to the disease that once threatened their survival.

ScienceDaily · EN

New Research Resolves the Mystery Behind Van Gogh's The Starry Night

The sky in Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night (1889) matches, in both observation and shape, the pre-dawn sky over Saint-Rémy around 22 July 1889, when a waning crescent moon, Venus and the Hyades star cluster appeared close together, according to a study published inScientific Reports.

Universe Today · EN