I read another post about this convention. That's what it is, right? It featured a couple who met there and got married two years later. That's a novel in and of itself! If you are going, I hope you enjoy it.
The Assessment - 2025 film review
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*The Assessment* is a new film, the first to be directed by Fleur Fortune
(a name that deserves to be in a Rachel Savernake novel...) and its premise
is...
Crime Fiction: Why Read It, Why Write it
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*Annamaria on Monday*
The two questions in my title today are closely linked.
From the readers point of view, there is a commonly cited answer. Critics...
Words in Titles
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Doing the monthly lists of new releases I'm struck by how many have a
family member in the title, however it's not as prevalent as I thought.
Looking at ...
A Concluding Sherlock Holmes Post
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This is the poster I created for my recent Sherlock Holmes presentation
here at Garlands. I began by reading the opening paragraph from The Sign of
Four: ‘...
Musings - Shakespeare's Lasting Impact
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When many people think of William Shakespeare, they think of a long ago
time where life was harsh and cruel, illness wiped out hundreds of
thousan...
Review: FOX SPIRIT ON A DISTANT CLOUD
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*FOX SPIRIT ON A DISTANT CLOUD by Lee Murray (The Cuba Press, 2024)*
*Reviewed by Alyson Baker*
*Wellington, 1923, and a sixty-year-old woman hangs hersel...
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...
Battle-Tested
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*Have you found any hints or shortcuts to speed up your writing process?
Energize your creativity? Minimize distractions? Do tell.*
by Dietrich
Shortcut...
Visiting Caipora at the Phoenix Zoo
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Two weeks ago, Denis and I scheduled a trip to the Phoenix Zoo specifically
to see their new Big Cats of Arizona exhibit. Unfortunately, Dial-a-Ride
was ex...
Bodies and Battlements by Elizabeth Penney
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I haven’t read any of the books in Elizabeth Penney’s other cozy series,
including the Cambridge Bookshop or Mysteries of Blackberry Valley. But,
the first...
People Watching and Persistence
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by Sybil Johnson People watching and persistence. I’ll call them the 2 Ps.
They are both important for writers. One of them gives us ideas for
stories. Th...
Little Mysteries
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I love the three books that make up Sara Gran's Claire DeWitt series. *Claire
DeWitt and the City of the Dead*, *Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway*, ...
Death at a Highland Wedding - Kelley Armstrong
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Death at a Highland Wedding is the fourth entry in Kelley Armstrong's Rip
Through Time series.
I have enjoyed every book that Kelley has written. Her fem...
Crime Fiction: Why Read It, Why Write it
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*Annamaria on Monday*
The two questions in my title today are closely linked.
From the readers point of view, there is a commonly cited answer. Critics...
Bullet Points: Novedecennial Edition
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*• Today marks 19 years* since *The Rap Sheet* was launched as a blog
separate from *January Magazine*. I’m not really in the mood to make a big
deal of th...
A Concluding Sherlock Holmes Post
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This is the poster I created for my recent Sherlock Holmes presentation
here at Garlands. I began by reading the opening paragraph from The Sign of
Four: ‘...
Musings - Shakespeare's Lasting Impact
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When many people think of William Shakespeare, they think of a long ago
time where life was harsh and cruel, illness wiped out hundreds of
thousan...
Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
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Feiffer, Jules. Bark, George. Michael di Capua Books, 1999. So many dog and
cat books in the world! But some of them stand out as especially funny or
endea...
Weekly Mewsings: Happy Mother's Day!
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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...
Review: FOX SPIRIT ON A DISTANT CLOUD
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*FOX SPIRIT ON A DISTANT CLOUD by Lee Murray (The Cuba Press, 2024)*
*Reviewed by Alyson Baker*
*Wellington, 1923, and a sixty-year-old woman hangs hersel...
F.H. Batacan, Acidents Happen
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Accidents Happen (from Soho Crime) is a story collection by the leading
crime writer in the Philipines. Her fiction is darkest noir, dealing with
social ...
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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I read another post about this convention. That's what it is, right? It featured a couple who met there and got married two years later. That's a novel in and of itself! If you are going, I hope you enjoy it.
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