Forgotten Book - Invisible Green
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John Sladek's brief but brilliant career as a writer of locked room
mysteries came to an end with *Invisible* *Green* (1977). in which his
Great Detecti...
A tale of two books
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Two books.
One is the autobiography of Nicola Sturgeon which was published this week.
Oh My!!
One reviewer ( more about them later) has described her as...
Award News: Petrona Award Entries 2025
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I am pleased to announce that *31 *titles have been entered by the
publishers for the 2025 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel
of the Yea...
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...
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...
Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations – July 2025
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July is over (by quite a bit this time, I’m running very late again), so
it’s time to discuss our favorite Cozies that we read this month! If you
read a Co...
A tale of two books
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Two books.
One is the autobiography of Nicola Sturgeon which was published this week.
Oh My!!
One reviewer ( more about them later) has described her as...
The Survivors by Jane Harper
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While I appreciate Jane Harper’s descriptions of Evelyn Bay, a small
coastal town in Tasmania, in The Survivors, I found the story extremely
slow moving un...
FFB: A GREAT DELIVERANCE, Elizabeth George
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I read this in 1988, which was the year it was published. It was George's
first Lynley novel and a real corker as the Brits might say. I recently
watch...
THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT has arrived!
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That is, The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s
The Stand. I was honored to be asked to contribute a short story to this
anthology...
Crime With a Scandinavian Accent
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Organizers of the 2025 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel
of the Year received 31 publisher entries to their competition. From those,
judg...
The Railway Adults, by Catriona McPherson
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*Do you start with a title, or does it emerge organically from your writing
process? How important is a title in shaping your project—or even selling
it?...
Big Fish, Little Pond
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Oklahoma Promotin' Donis here. Since my fellow Type M-ers are musing about
promotion, allow me to share an excellent piece of advice I received many
years...
The Devil's Advocate by Steve Cavanagh
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First Line: *Holman Correctional Facility, Escambia County, Alabama. Randal
Korn had waited for this moment for four long years*.
Randal Korn has sent mo...
Lime Juice Money - Jo Morey
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I loved the cover of Jo Morey's first novel - Lime Juice Money.
You'll find out what that phrase means - and travel to Morey's setting in
Belize. She has...
Ned Kelly Award for best Debut Novel announced
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The Australian Crime Writers Association announced its shortlist for
the 2025 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction:
*Down the Rabbit Hole,* by...
The Foreigner by Gladys Malvern
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When I was a young teen, I became captivated by a genre I called “Biblical
fiction”—novels that took the characters and events of the Bible and
enriched th...
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
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[image: The Hungry Tide]The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A young Indian marine biologist, Piya Roy, travels to the remote Sunderb...
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.
...
I’m on a longlist!
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I was thrilled to discover that Death of a Princess has made it onto the
longlist for the inaugural SpyMasters Book Prize. As you can see from the
list bel...
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...
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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