The Cobblestones of Edinburgh
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Sujata Massey
Recently, the last cobblestone was mortared into place on my property in
Baltimore, Maryland. Hundreds of grey-black bricks were originall...
The House at Devil's Neck by Tom Mead - review
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The locked room mystery has played a significant part in the evolution of
the detective story. The very first detective story proper (by general
consent...
Death Comes as the End (1944) by Agatha Christie
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HarperCollins Masterpiece Ed., 2010. Book Format: Kindle Edition. File
Size: 1,9 MB. Print Length: 273 pages. ASIN: B0046H95SQ. ISBN:
9780007422265. First ...
Review: THE WAKE, Yrsa Sigurdardottir
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This edition read as an e-book on my Kindle (Amazon)
- Translated from Icelandic to English by Victoria Cribb
- ASIN : B0DKBLKQLK
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The Petrona Award 2025 - Winner
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*Winner of the Petrona Award 2025 announced*
The winner of the Petrona Award 2025 for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel
of the Year is:
*THE CLUES...
A New Novel by a Master of the Craft
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Ian McEwan is beyond brilliant, and, in my view, he is currently writing at
the height of his powers .In What We Can Know, his subject matter ranges
widely...
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...
Can't Wait Wednesday - November 5th
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This meme is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings.
*Can't-Wait Wednesday* is a weekly meme hosted here to spotlight and talk
about the books we're e...
The Cobblestones of Edinburgh
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Sujata Massey
Recently, the last cobblestone was mortared into place on my property in
Baltimore, Maryland. Hundreds of grey-black bricks were originall...
October 2025 at the Desert Botanical Garden
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I took a trip to one of my favorite places, the Desert Botanical Garden,
the week before Halloween. The weather was glorious, and for once the place
wasn't...
The Haunting of Paynes Hollow - Kelley Armstrong
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The Haunting of Paynes Hollow is new from Kelley Armstrong.
Now, I always have a good look at the book's cover before diving in. Try it
- what do you s...
Hearts and Minds Before Hashtags
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Winning “hearts and minds” began long before hashtags — and the first
battlefield wasn’t online. It was psychological, political, and deeply
human.
In ...
Forest Fairy Surprise
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by Catherine Dilts There is delight in seeing something you didn’t expect.
Don’t warn me ahead of time. I want to be surprised. We visited my
husband’s bes...
Monday, Monday
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A wonderful novel by Laura Lippman has helped me get through a difficult
week. I have a blood clot, not the scary kind but a small one on a
superficial...
Cast Your Irish “Ayes” Here
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Organizers of the annual An Post Irish Book Awards have announced their
shortlisted nominees for this year’s prizes. There are 18 categories of
nominees in...
Guess the title of my next book and win a paperback
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That’s right. I’ve got a new book coming out. The title is still top
secret. Hush hush. Under wraps. Need to know. But if you think you can
guess what it i...
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,...
Imanoli Writers Conference — I’ll be speaking!
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I’m excited to be the keynote speaker at the 2025 Imanoli Writers
Conference, sponsored by the Chickasaw Nation. I’m a citizen of the Nation,
and it’s a tr...
Merle Nygate on Why Spy Fiction
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The first realistic espionage stories I ever read was Somerset Maugham’s
*Ashenden* short stories. The narrator, a writer, trails around the Italian
lake...
A New Novel by a Master of the Craft
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Ian McEwan is beyond brilliant, and, in my view, he is currently writing at
the height of his powers .In What We Can Know, his subject matter ranges
widely...
2025 Murder, Monsters & Mayhem Begins! 🎃📚
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October 1st is here, and you know what that means… it’s officially spooky
season—and the return of Murder, Monsters & Mayhem! If you’ve been
following th...
Where Is Your Bookmark? [September 26th Edition]
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One of my current reads, *The Bewitching* by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, is
everything I hoped it would be so far. Let's take a peek!
A weekly meme where reader...
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.
...
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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