That's cute. I review many mysteries and started my blog as only mysteries. Now I include memoirs and literary fiction but my first love is a good mystery.
#19 Maurizio de Giovanni / I Will Have Vengeance
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Maurizio de Giovanni, I Will Have Vengeance: The Winter of Commissario
Ricciardi, translated from Italian by Anne Milano Appel (Hersilia Press,
2012 [2007]...
Philosophers and Ploughmen, Each Must Know His Part*
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We often think of fictional sleuths (real ones too, actually) as people of
action. They go to crime scenes, they sift through and look for evidence,
they c...
Harry Hole's Days are Numbered?
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In an interview with Jo Nesbo in The Bookseller (9 December 2011), he
responds to the question of how much longer has Harry got?:
"...I've had the end in ...
Lucio Dalla in Memoriam
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Italian singer Lucio Dalla died of a heart attack Thursday while on tour in
Montreaux, Switzerland. He would have turned 69 Sunday. Filed under: Lucio
Dall...
The Thief, by Fuminori Nakamura
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http://internationalnoir.blogspot.com/2012...
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Paul Thomas speaking in Takapuna on Monday night
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Just a quick reminder that highly acclaimed Kiwi crime writer Paul Thomas
(THE IHAKA TRILOGY, DEATH ON DEMAND) will be speaking at an event at the
Takapuna...
Looking back: February 2012
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Kerrie’s meme at Mysteries in Paradise that requires you to pick your best
read of the month rather than leave it to a year’s end memory test is a
good dis...
Kerry Greenwood Cookbook
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Fans of Australian author *Kerry Greenwood* have longed for a *Corinna
Chapman cookbook* to accompany the Corinna Chapman baker mysteries. *Now a
cookbook...
Still Baffling
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This week marked the 37th anniversary of the Moorgate tube disaster. At
8.46am On February 28th 1975 a southbound, Northern Line train from Drayton
Park ...
Painted Lady (BBC miniseries)
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When you think of crime fiction and Helen Mirren, it’s probably “Prime
Suspect” that comes to mind, but in “Painted Lady” (BBC, 1997) she plays a
much diff...
Review: The Weird Sisters
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The Andreas family is what some might call eccentric. The father is a
Shakespearean professor and all three daughters are named after characters
from Shak...
Books of the Month – February 2012
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Before I hit my reading slump in the second half of February I did read THE
CALLER by Karin Foussm which I thought an outstanding novel. It is about a
smal...
February reading report
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In February I reviewed 4 books for Euro Crime and 11 at Petrona. The
geographical spread was fairly broad, but only one title is translated, so
I must rect...
Drink like a Greek: wine cups
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Ancient wine was quite unlike the modern stuff. To start with, they added
spices, such as fenugreek, which these days you're more likely to find in a
curr...
Forgotten Book - Dead Man's Watch
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My Forgotten Book today is one that was the subject of a very interesting
review not long ago on that marvellous blog Pretty Sinister Books. It is Dead
Man...
Elmore Leonard's first-person in disguise
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*A*n interviewer once noted Elmore Leonard's tendency to get inside his
characters' heads without, however, resorting to first-person narration:
"So, when...
The Crown by Nancy Bilyeau
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When a young novice nun sneaks out of her convent to go to London she sets
off a change of events that she couldn't even begin to imagine. Sister
Joanne S...
Plans, plans, plans
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In general I tend to read as the mood takes me, from the books I have
available.
Every now and then though I take a look at the reading challenges I have
...
Review - Who Do Voodoo
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I have had this on my TBR shelf for a few months now. I had thought I
would save it for next Halloween. Then I discovered it is nominated for an
Agatha, ...
It´s Sweden´s Day # 17
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Again a couple of pictures of the interior of the Swedish cottage – plus
another neglected tractor. An upstairs kitchen which was not in use – very
fiftyish.
A new small press launches 5 March
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Crime Factory Publications is a new small press that will officially launch
on Monday 5 March at a Melbourne event I wish I could attend myself.
American a...
My Reading Week in Review – week ending 19/02/12
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Here is my reading summary for the week ending 19th February 2012. Each
week I give a short summary of the books I have finished and a bit of a
blurb for e...
More tales of Sherlock....
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*A Study in Sherlock*
Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Kinger
2011
Bantam Books
"Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon"
If nothing else, the recent edi...
Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson
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Kindle edition, published by Mulholland Books, 2011.
Mulholland now has 9 of Jim Thompson's available as e-books and they intend
to make 25 of Thompson'...
A Writer to Remember: Margery Allingham
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[image: allingham_marg_in_garden_copy]The joy of reading—and re-reading—*More
Work for the Undertaker* and other wonderful works from Margery Allingham.
Miss Lemon's Mystery Roundup, 2011
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Aside from a fragrant cup of Earl Grey, there is almost nothing Miss Lemon
likes more than tucking in to a delicious mystery. The more British that
myster...
Is Reading A Dying Art?
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Three times last week I was speaking to young friends and associates and
they informed me that they never read books anymore. One even admitted he
had neve...
Saturday Review of Books: March 3, 2012
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“Needless to say Duggie did not understand one half of what he read. He
took his reading like a drug; he absorbed it as a drunkard absorbs whisky,
and the ...
Take Notice
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There’s very little chance of my sitting through a second season of the
American version of *The Killing*. Especially since the original 13
episodes of tha...
#8: Broken Silence (DI Jack Brady)
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Broken Silence (DI Jack Brady)
Danielle Ramsay (Author)
[image: Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours] ** 59 days in the top 100...
First Poster for AMC's The Killing, Season Two
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[image: The Kiling Season Two (AMC, 2012)]
AMC has released the first official poster for the second season of The
Killing (right; click for slightly lar...
Yes, that's what I was doing....
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Ok.... well.... I don't think I want to do THAT again. As a guest of the
Friends of the NRA banquet for many years, I've always said that it is too
freaki...
Read Across America
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And, just for fun, here's what I did today. I went to Arroya Elementary
School for Read Across America. NEA (National Education Association) Read
Across Am...
THE SUMMING UP, Friday, March 2, 2012
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A review of Chico and Rita, right here at Crimespree Cinema Magazine.
At the suggestion of a reader, I am going to try and do this differently. I
will pos...
The Thief, by Fuminori Nakamura
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The Thief (by Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Satoko Izumo and Stephen
Coates and published by ShHo Crime) is a stripped-down philosophical crime
novel, ...
Paul Thomas speaking in Takapuna on Monday night
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Just a quick reminder that highly acclaimed Kiwi crime writer Paul Thomas
(THE IHAKA TRILOGY, DEATH ON DEMAND) will be speaking at an event at the
Takapuna...
Let It All Hang Out
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by Erin Mitchell As you read this, I’ll be in The Land of the Mouse, cavorting with authors, editors, agents, reviewers and readers at Sleuthfest. They have ...
Mystery & Crime at the Oxford Literary Festival
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Those of you that regularly attend St Hilda’s Crime and Mystery Conference
that takes place every year at St Hilda’s College in Oxford will know
Eileen Rob...
Still Baffling
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This week marked the 37th anniversary of the Moorgate tube disaster. At
8.46am On February 28th 1975 a southbound, Northern Line train from Drayton
Park ...
Analyzing the ABBC: 2011 Literary Fiction, Pt. 2
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Last week I began to analyze the most popular literary fiction titles of
2011 as compiled in the ABBC All-the-Best-Books Compilation. Today, I’ll
finish th...
Frightful Friday: Dead Harvest by Chris Holm
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Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary
or chilling book that I’ve read that week. Feel free to grab the button &
join in...
Friday's "Forgotten" Books - Murder Ink, Revised
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In June 1972, Dilys Winn opened the first specialty bookstore devoted to
mysteries and crime fiction. Titled Murder Ink, the store stood on its
original sp...
The Friday 56
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This is a fun meme to do hosted by Freda's Voice. If you'd like to join on
the fun go to The Friday 56.
Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
...
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
Join some well known authors reading One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish!
My favourite Seuss is And To Think That I Saw It O...
Lives in the Balance (& book giveaways!)
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by Alexandra Sokoloff
The TV binge continues. Yes, it's sad, although probably better than the
equivalent in ice cream or heroin.
I know I promised a...
February’s Books
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February was a good reading month. I read 9 books. The full list is on
my Books Read in 2012 page (see the tab above). My Book of the Month
is Little Boy L...
Where? When? Why?
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by Meredith Cole
So two weeks ago I did a bit of a disappearing act. It wasn't intentional,
but I dropped off the planet. So where was I?
I wish I could s...
Kid Konnection: Guess How Much I Love You
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To share your children's book related posts stop by Booking Mama’s feature,
Kid Konnection and leave a comment as well as a link to your posts!
*Guess H...
Review of Incompetence by Rob Grant (Gollancz, 2003)
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Harry is an deep cover agent at large in Europe keeping an eye out for
unusual happenings and security issues. The former occur in spades as
Europe is now ...
Snow Days and Favorite Seasons
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I had a snow day yesterday. We finally got more than three inches of snow. It will be gone by the weekend when we hit the 40s. But, for the moment, we have a...
Milestone Mania
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a guest post from Midnight Ink author, Sue Ann Jaffarian
This week marked a major milestone in my writing career – I completed and
turned into my publishe...
Postcrossing Update, or Good Mail Days
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I've had lots of good mail days of late. I thought I'd share a few of the cool postcards that have arrived in the mail via Postcrossing (already shared my bo...
Coming soon: Teen Exorcist TV
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Jezebel points out this story about a trio of perky teens who were on
Anderson Cooper this week, and says: “Teen Exorcists Shopping Reality Show
Can’t Poss...
Booking through Different Kind of Romance
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*Have you ever fallen in love with a fictional character? Who and what
about them did you love?*
I have not fallen in love with any f...
Half-Blood Blues – Book Review
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Jazz. Here in Germany it become something worse than a virus. We was all of
us damn fleas, us Negroes and Jews and low-life hoodlums, set on playing
that v...
Books Received - February 2012
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It is the good fortune of The Hungry Detective to now and again receive
books from authors, publishers or their associated marketing agencies.
These books ...
Book Review: Archive of Fire
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*Archive of Fire, Sentinel Book One* by Betsy Dornbausch is a dark urban
fantasy. Twins Aidan and Kaelin have been trained by their mother to fight
and k...
Papa Don't Preach (Or; Show Don't Tell....Again.)
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*By Jay Stringer.*
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*Apologies for my absence last week. It seems getting ill is my bodies
favourite new thing lately. The post I had in mind was a good ...
Review - Who Do Voodoo
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I have had this on my TBR shelf for a few months now. I had thought I
would save it for next Halloween. Then I discovered it is nominated for an
Agatha, ...
Different Kind of Romance
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A while ago, I interviewed my readers for a change, and my final question
was, “What question have I NOT asked at BTT that you’d love me to ask?” I
got som...
The Dispatcher by Ryan David Jahn (Plus Giveaway!)
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*Part Of The Synopsis From Back Cover:*
*Ian Hunt is a police dispatcher in East Texas. Just as his shift is
ending he gets a call from his fourteen-yea...
The Author’s Bucket List on Plot Structure
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By Jordan Dane
I’ve never been a plotter. I’m too impatient. Once I get the general idea
of a story with a compelling conflict and a notion of my cast ...
2012: #5 – Stitches (David Small)
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I've been meaning to read this for a long time, and finally got around to
it a few weeks ago. We were traveling, and it was a good book to read
start-to-fi...
Taking a Flying Leap
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OK. This has NOTHING to do with mysteries. But today's the day to wish a
"happy birthday" to Frederick. He celebrated his 21st birthday in 1940, so
he has ...
Cat Sitter’s Pajamas by Blaize Clement (Minotaur)
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The Dixie Hemingway series is one of my favorites. Its covers or titles are
quite misleading causing the reader to expect very light and fluffy cozy
myster...
Wordless Wednesday
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By Molly, age 7 Me: How is the tree loving?
Molly: Because all the animals and birds want to be near the tree.
Me: I would like to have a loving grap tree, ...
March New Mystery Releases!
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I may be stitching up a storm, scrubbing down the house in preparation for
a greatly anticipated house guest, and enjoying this great weather, but
that ...
Spring/Summer/Winter Mystery Titles
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This is not an exhaustive list. Just cherry picked titles that I’m really
looking forward to reading (in no particular order): Tana French’s fourth
book fr...
Gimme a Minute!
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Ha! I love this pic. I can see having a hard time with this decision.
As for me, I'm brain-swamped. Getting items together to start the new gig,
wrapping ...
Driving Impaired: Think Twice
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*Katrina, the young heroine in my debut novel THE TRAZ is orphaned at the
age of 13 when a 2-car crash kills her parents. Both drivers were
impaired. I w...
Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household
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Geoffrey Household’s 1939 thriller novel *Rogue Male* deals with a plot to
kill HItler. Only it’s not actually a plot, it’s more of a solo mission
that at ...
The Legacy of Eden – p.197
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"I thought how the moon would be shining on the husk that was now Aurelia.
How its light would find the withered rose garden, the dead corn fields,
the e...
The man in the lake and other Hamilton mysteries
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I had the pleasure of being a panelist in a criminal line up at the *Waikato
Times Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival* on Sunday. Fellow suspects were crime
fi...
Get LANCELOT'S LADY free today til midnight!
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Today until midnight PST, you can pick up your free Kindle edition of
LANCELOT'S LADY, a romantic suspense by Cherish D'Angelo.
*A Bahamas holiday from dyi...
"El tiempo entre costuras", de María Dueñas
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Una sorpresa. Una muestra magnífica de cómo se puede construir una buena
historia a partir de una reconstrucción razonablemente fidedigna de un
período h...
Chapbook Giveaway
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Okay, I'm needy. Please validate me by reviewing my work. Your efforts will
not go unrewarded. The first three people to review either THE POINT or WEE
R...
Review: Defending Jacob by William Landay
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Links: Amazon, Amazon UK, Book Depository UK I decided to read this
following a ringing endorsement by Joseph Finder hailing it as one of the
best books of...
HIGH ADVENTURE by Donald E. Westlake
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Pilot Kirby Galway is having a bad week. He has two different customers
(for the Pre-Columbian artifacts he smuggles) show up at his home in Belize
at the...
Blood on the Tongue by Stephen Booth
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"He was climbing steadily higher toward the top of Irontongue Hill, where
the wreckage of *Sugar Uncle Victor* lay. In the gullies, snow already lay
over ...
Cumming, Charles: The Spanish Game
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This time it's about Basque separatism and the Iraq War and England's relationship with the U.S., and there's a convoluted plot that I gave up caring about e...
Book Review Club: Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
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(This is the February 2012 edition of Barrie Summy's Book Review Club. For
the complete list, click the icon after this review.)
When you get right down to...
SinC25, # 10 – Helene Tursten
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My final author for the Sisters in Crime 25th Anniversary Challenge
represents for me a kind of women’s writing that I enjoy and sometimes
don’t appreciate...
In praise of the bookstore
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On Saturday afternoon, at the end of a whistlestop tour around the glories of Georgian Bath, I spied a bookstore. I'd been pretty well disciplined over the h...
Health hazards of being a writer
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Okay, so maybe you’re thinking this sounds like a bizarre blog title. And I
guess it is something we don’t talk about much. So here it is, the health
hazar...
Standard Candles
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It is obvious from reading numerous McDevitt novels that while he is a
superb storyteller, his interests are more than merely plot. He is
fascinated by his...
The Last Thing I Remember by Andrew Klavan
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This is a young adult book for boys aged 12-15 years. Supposed to be action
packed, I must say I was pretty bored with it. Well, I am not a boy and I
am...
MIA.
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Hi All! We've been MIA for a little while now, but don't worry we'll be
back in top form soon. We've been working to consolidate all of our
internet presen...
You don’t look a day older
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Swedish novelist Henning Mankell recently called a halt to his
mega-bestselling Inspector Wallander series with the novel The Troubled
Man. According to a...
Monday, September 19: The Scribbler
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DOORWAYS by James Lincoln Warren Jim Morrison, the famous Dionysiac
rock’n’roll star, claimed that his cult band the Doors was named after a
line in the ma...
Saying Good-Bye to Weekly Geeks
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything
to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it
while w...
AVOID AMAZON SURCHARGE ON 'CLAWS'
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The popularity of Kindle ebooks which we're currently experiencing in the
USA and UK isn't matched in most of the other countries around the world.
One of...
Damaging
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For the three sporadic readers who still miss my blog, I have news. I’m
joining the crew of Do Some Damage and will start blogging there
alternating Monday...
Hiatus
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The post explaining it all is here, but this is the short version: I started a new gig as the News Editor for Publishers Marketplace, the first time I have h...
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That's cute. I review many mysteries and started my blog as only mysteries. Now I include memoirs and literary fiction but my first love is a good mystery.
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