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.
Favourites of 2025
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A belated welcome to the blog in 2026. As you can see from my Goodreads
montage below I did not have a great reading year in 2025, in terms of
quantity. As...
New Stuff & Re-Newing Stuff
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Ovidia--every other Tuesday
We celebrated the first work week of the Western new year by going back to
one of our neighbourhood kopitiams (literally 'coffe...
Review: BLOOD PACT, Fiona McIntosh
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This edition read as an e-book on Libby provided by my local library
- Published: 2 December 2025, Penguin Australia
- ISBN: 978176134361...
David Roberts R.I.P.
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I was saddened to learn recently, from his widow Jane, that David Roberts
died on 18 December. The news came as a particular shock as I'd very much
enjo...
Best Reading, 2025: Fiction
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The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie. Nothing stops Salman Rushdie, not even
being nearly killed by a savage knife attack at Chautauqua in 2022. This
novel ...
Review - A Death in Door County
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Annelise Ryan is the USA Today bestselling author of multiple mystery
series, including the Mattie Winston Mysteries and now the Monster Hunter
Mysteries. ...
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! ...
#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...
Out of Mind by Kendall Talbot
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Title: Out of Mind Author: Kendall Talbot Genre: Romantic suspense Opens:
From the moment Holly climbed into the helicopter, a sense of foreboding
plagued ...
Review: BREAKHEART HILL by Thomas H. Cook
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I’m very grateful to regular visitor Tracy (who blogs wonderfully herself
at Biter Tea and Mystery) for recommending this book set in her native
Alabama fo...
From Fred Vargas to Kati Hiekkapelto
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I have finally finished A Climate of Fear after many weeks. This is nothing
to do with the quality of a fine book but more to do with my state of
health an...
>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...
The Cyclist by Tim Sullivan
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First Line: "*Excuse me? How long before my men can get back to work?*"
Detective Sergeant George Cross's logic, determination, and precision can
make hi...
Planning Your Writing Year Without Losing It
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A new year is upon us! How do you plan for your writing calendar?
A new year shows up like a stranger at the end of the bar—attractive,
mysterious and ...
Gearing Up for the Outside World
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by Catherine Dilts This isn’t about outfitting for winter sports. The topic
is the much more treacherous and risky activity of introverted authors
making p...
New Stuff & Re-Newing Stuff
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Ovidia--every other Tuesday
We celebrated the first work week of the Western new year by going back to
one of our neighbourhood kopitiams (literally 'coffe...
Inside Man by John McMahon
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FBI agent Gardner Camden in back with his Head Cases team in the second in
John McMahon’s series, Inside Man. This one has a more technical focus than
the ...
Monday, Monday
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Aside from these two movies at the theater, I also rewatched SLEEPLESS IN
SEATTLE, BOB AND CAROL AND TED AND ALICE and something else that escapes
me....
The Fox of Kensal Green by Richard Tyrrell
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Salt Publishing| 7 January 2026| 240 pages| e-book| Review copy| 4*
Description A quiet neighbourhood of London is about to be shattered.
Normally little h...
The Earth Weighs Heavily by Alison Joseph
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credit - Adrian Pope
If you ask a writer ‘when did you decide to become a writer’ you will
almost certainly get some kind of mumbled answer about ‘it n...
Please Bear with Me
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Sorry for the recent dearth of updates to this page, but my computer
crashed right before Christmas, and it is *still* in for servicing. I shall
resume pos...
Best Reading, 2025: Fiction
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The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie. Nothing stops Salman Rushdie, not even
being nearly killed by a savage knife attack at Chautauqua in 2022. This
novel ...
Cover Story in Top Ten spy books of 2025!
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As picked by one of the UK’s leading spy fiction aficionados. Tim Shipman
is a political journalist of some renown and the author of four hefty books
about...
Review - A Death in Door County
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Annelise Ryan is the USA Today bestselling author of multiple mystery
series, including the Mattie Winston Mysteries and now the Monster Hunter
Mysteries. ...
Strangers in the Car - C.M. Ewan
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Grand Central Publishing is the home of author C.M. Ewan's latest book.
Ewan is a new read for me......but he won't be the last! He describes his
work as...
2025 Thankfully Reading Week! #thankfullyreading
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This is the official kick off post for Thankfully Reading Week! Feel free
to link up your kick-off post below, as well as any update posts you have.
Use ...
Marge’s Diner by Gail Gibbons
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Gail Gibbons has written and illustrated a multitude of nonfiction picture
books about everything from road building to quilting bees to spiders,
penguins,...
The More Things Change
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Back in July of 2009, Do Some Damage launched with seven authors on
Blogspot.com.
Now, sixteen years later, the site is moving to a Substack newsletter.
...
TGIF!
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Cyber security protocols
Well, this is about the 7th try for a GarbAugust 3.5 read for this weekend.
TOMB OF THE QUEEN by Joss Walker (pseudonym for J.T...
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...
THE LAMMISTERS: a bourbon-smooth riot, apparently
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It’s been a busy end to 2019 for yours truly, folks, and we wind down tired
but happy, with THE LAMMISTERS published – something I thought would never
hap...
Rural Crime: The politician speaks
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*Criminal Minds at Work *is honoured to have Doug Schweitzer, Alberta’s
Minister of Justice and Solicitor General, as a guest today.
In the following op-...
WRITING COURSES FOR 2019
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*I'm very aware how lucky I am to make a living from writing books (my
dream from being 12 years old).*
*But one disadvantage I had when I was trying to ge...
Oh hey! I moved to Wordpress!
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I'm still in the process of migrating my old content to Wordpress, but all
new posts will come from estellasrevenge.net (which was formerly forwarded
to th...
Two Mini-Reviews
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I’m well behind on my Scandi crime reading, and even further behind on
reading. Maybe I’m suffering from a bit of a reading slump; a lot of books
just have...
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...
The Nebulous Genre
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A friend of mine to whom I complained of the relative paucity of comments
on this blog told me it might have to do with so many of my posts dealing
with "b...
Upcoming Events
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Lit Crawl Belfast:
As part of the Belfast Book Festival, come to No Alibis see me and Rosemary
Jenkinson read from works by our favourite crime authors,...
Twice Honored
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*Edith here, still riding on a joy cloud!*
Why am I riding on a joy cloud? I learned last week that *Called to Justice*,
my second Quaker Midwife Mystery...
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...
Stylistic
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What’s your favorite style of book? Serious? Playful? Humorous? Thoughtful?
Action-packed? Moody? Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual response
(so ...
Celebrating Pat Conroy
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Happy Birthday to the wonderful Pat Conroy. We miss you.
I'm celebrating him today because he celebrated so many young writers like
me.
The Soullessness of Our New Machines
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My fellow-blogger at Inside Higher Ed and an insatiable consumer of books,
Joshua Kim, reviewed Tracy Kidder’s new book, A Truck Full of Money, and
I’m gla...
Coming to Mcintyre's • Fearrington Village
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Straight from the pen of Mcintyre's book buyer and mystery guru Pete
Mock. Don't miss these events--and say howdy to me!
Wednesday, June 22, 6:30
Brian P...
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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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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