The purpose of this blog is to bring together feeds from Crime Fiction blogs from all over the world. I hope you find it a useful jumping off spot! If your blog is not listed, let me know via a comment.
Snow Time!
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Shock. Horror. It’s that time of year again.
Scotland had to brace itself overnight with warnings of danger to life
weather conditions.
It’s a bit fros...
NOIR CITY XMAS: Who Killed Santa Claus?
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*NOIR CITY Xmas* is on its way! Join host *Eddie Muller on Wednesday,
December 18, 7:30 pm, at Oakland's historic Grand Lake Theatre for NOIR
CITY Xmas!*...
Against the Grain by Peter Lovesey - review
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*Against the Grain* by Peter Lovesey is billed as the last Peter Diamond
novel. I've followed Diamond's rollercoaster crime-solving career right
from th...
The Re-Opening of Notre Dame de Paris
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In this time of anxiety and uncertainty, France, with the help of one
enterprising American, is giving us something to rejoice about: To Hank
Silver, many ...
Mystery Movie Review - Dead Again
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Some call this a neo-noir romantic thriller and others call it a
psychological thriller. I classify it as a gothic mystery/thriller in the
vein of Hitch...
Мелбет бонус промокод на сегодня
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Регистрация в Мелбет без паспорта Компания Melbet давно популярна среди
беттеров. Букмекер предлагает широкий набор спортивных событий,
привлекательные кот...
Wondrous Words Wednesday
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Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words
that you’ve encountered or spotlight words you love. Feel free to get
creative! ...
A Year of Extraordinary Moments by Bette Lee Crosby
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Title: A Year of Extraordinary Moments Author: Bette Lee Crosby
Genre: Contemporary Opens: I’m an old woman now and not long for this
world, but I’m not af...
#amreading What Lies Beneath Us, Kirsty Ferguson
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I'm actually half way through this extremely promising piece of writing.
*From the Blurb:*
Jessica James had the perfect life. She had a good job, suppor...
The Petrona Award 2017 Shortlist
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The Petrona judges have chosen a very interesting shortlist for the award
for the best Nordic crime fiction novel of the year. The winner will be
announc...
>People Like Us….
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>In real life, murders are committed by all kinds of people from every
social class. Murder victims, too, come from every social class. So do
those who inv...
Snow Time!
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Shock. Horror. It’s that time of year again.
Scotland had to brace itself overnight with warnings of danger to life
weather conditions.
It’s a bit fros...
A Reading Round-Up
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This is a busy week here at Casa Kittling. The usual-- groceries, laundry,
nurse visits, bill paying, blah blah blah-- as well as the procedure on my
...
Craig Johnson at The Poisoned Pen
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Most of you know I’m the blogger for The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in
Scottsdale, Arizona. I write my blog,, which is totally different from the
blog I write ...
FFB: RIDERS ON THE STORM, Ed Gorman
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Ed Gorman, *Riders on the Storm** (reviewed by Ron Scheer)*
Ed Gorman’s new Sam McCain mystery is set in 1971 and reflects some of the
civil turbulence...
Definitional Disagreements
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Earlier this week, *The Washington Post* released its “10 best mystery
novels of 2024” list. It follows that up now with critic Stephanie Merry’s
choices o...
Yeah, not these books either
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Thursday
I don't know if I'll stick with the books I mentioned yesterday or not.
Slumps suck.
Observing it, a book sounds kinda interesting -- if it m...
Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart by Russ Ramsey
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Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart; What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and
Struggle of Being Alive by Russ Ramsey. Zondervan, 2024. Russ Ramsey’s
first book abo...
Lou Gilmond: On researching for PALISADE
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It started with an honourable member: Harry Colbey, although he wasn’t
always called that. The member of parliament for Gloucester East had
several name...
Rewrite Time
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I've finally finished the first draft of my new book, and have begun the
rewrite. We've all heard many times that writing is rewriting, and anyone
who's e...
Nonfiction November:Week 4- Mind Openers
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Throughout the month of November, bloggers Liz, Frances, Heather, Rebekah
and Deb invite you to celebrate Nonfiction November with us. Week 4
(11/18-11/22...
The Re-Opening of Notre Dame de Paris
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In this time of anxiety and uncertainty, France, with the help of one
enterprising American, is giving us something to rejoice about: To Hank
Silver, many ...
The House Swap: Three Domestic Thrillers
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These two domestic thrillers with the same theme and title are as similar
as they are different.
*The House Swap*
by Rebecca Fleet
May 22, 2018; Penguin ...
A Book That Makes You Think About Your Own Life?
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By
Scott D. Parker
Know how, as soon as you finish watching The Sixth Sense, you watch the
movie again, knowing the truth, and it all lines up? That’s ...
A New Lease on Death - Olivia Blacke
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Olivia Blacke caught me off with the the first few pages of her new novel -
A New Lease on Death. Well, with the title and the image on the cover, you
m...
Hot off the (virtual) press
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I’ve written a couple of articles about the background to my new book,
Death of a Princess. The first begins: “In 1879 a group of eleven young
people desce...
2024 Thankfully Reading Weekend!
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It’s baack! I’m pleased to announce that I will once again be hosting
Thankfully Reading Weekend, November 27-December 1st (Wednesday through
Sunday)! ...
Speaker Inquiries
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I’ve just added a new page to the blog: Speaker Inquiries. It’s now on the
menu bar and sidebar, but I want to shout it out here on the front page
too. I d...
Jessa Maxwell, I Need You to Read This
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I Need You to Read This, Jessa Maxwell's new novel, combines several
threads of plot, swirling around an advice column in a fictional New York
newspape...
Weekly Mews: Side Effects
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I am linking up to the *Sunday Post* hosted by Kim of Caffeinated Book
Reviewer and *The Sunday Salon* (TSS) hosted by Deb Nance of Readerbuzz where
part...
Mystery Movie Review - Dead Again
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Some call this a neo-noir romantic thriller and others call it a
psychological thriller. I classify it as a gothic mystery/thriller in the
vein of Hitch...
Reading fog
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Well I am getting there with the new hip. Walking so much easier. I am
doing circuits of our communal gardens using crutches but indoors I am
managing with...
Media Murder for Monday
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It's the start of a new week and that means it's time for a brand-new
roundup of crime drama news: THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES Roundtable Entertainment
has green...
Book Notices | The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid
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Yishai Sarid, The Memory Monster Amazon This short book is written in the
first person and purports to be a letter written by the unnamed narrator to
his b...
Thinking about Second Half of 2023
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Hello friends. It has been a long while. Longer than I realized actually.
I'm here and reading away, as many books on the go as usual. (Which for me
can be...
Small Mercies - The Return of Dennis Lehane
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A time honored tradition at The Hungry Detective HQ is to perform the
twice annual, and largely ceremonial, 'Dennis Lehane New book 20XX" Google
search. N...
The Last Hurrah
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‘Relax will you. It’s just an abandoned warehouse.’
‘Well, it’s giving me the creeps.’
‘We’ll just glance it over and skedaddle. Tomorrow you’ll be a fre...
The Agatha Awards
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From somewhere in Cyberspace, the winners of this year's Agatha Awards for
mystery writing were announced this evening at a virtual convention of
mystery w...
On Writing and Jazz
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Set during the Jazz Age, THE LAMMISTERS is a novel that plunders the
literary canon in the manner of a starved child let loose in a sweetshop.
Of all its ...
A NEW STANDALONE - DROWNED LIVES
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My Derbyshire police detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry are on holiday at
the moment (I think they deserved it after 18 novels and all those
murders!).
...
The SIMS Book Tag
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The Original SIMS - The Best Author Debut
The Grim Reaper - The Saddest Character Death
SIMS Getting Stuck - A Character That Got in the Way
SIMlish - A...
Review of Unrest by Jesper Stein
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translated by David Young, Mirror Books, 2018 The first novel in a
five-volume police procedural series, Unrest, was published originally in
2012 to acclai...
Book Review: Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
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In Mudboud (2008), Hillary Jordan’s narrative voice is easily engaging
about a white and black family living in the Mississippi Delta during the
Jim Crow e...
Goodbye Blogger
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J'aurais voulu écrire quelque chose de spirituel ou d'émouvant pour marquer
l'occasion, mais parfois le mieux est d'aller droit au but. La Villa ferme
ses ...
Irish Times review of DISORDER
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This review, written by Declan Burke, appeared in The Irish Times on
Saturday 21st April 2018.
Potential for violence
Set in Belfast, Gerard Brennan’s ...
Seven Sinister Sisters on Genres
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*Edith Maxwell/Maddie Day here. The Seven Sinister Sisters are on a blog
tour and we're giving away books!* We are seven authors with new books
coming out ...
Hail and Farewell
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Jeff Cohen So that was it. We hope you liked it. This is the 3464th post on
HEY THERE'S A DEAD GUY IN THE LIVING ROOM, and unless someone else
parachutes i...
New Things
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Everybody needs a change now and again, so what new topics or authors are
you interested in these days? Or what new kinds of books do you wish you
had time...
Kuráž pro začátečníky
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Welcome to the world, Kuráž pro začátečníky, the Czech edition of COURAGE
FOR BEGINNERS, out this month from Albatros. Exciting!
I moved!
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For a long time I’ve meant to migrate my website to a platform that would
be easier to update (not requiring html coding skills that I don’t have)
and I fi...
STEALING THE COUNTESS by David Housewright
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I thoroughly enjoyed my first by Housewright. It’s an almost British-like
PI novel that kept me turning pages but not losing sleep. The “countess” is
a $4 ...
Discover
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Image courtesy of Faber-Castell Design A few years ago I noticed some of my
favorite quilting blogs were choosing a word for the year. I like that
idea. It...
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