The unlikely heroes
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Another Remembrance Day has slipped past us, and both world wars move
slowly from living memory. The cenotaph in the village is covered with
wreaths of...
Forgotten Book - Hall of Death
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I've mentioned before my long-term interest in the writing of Nedra Tyre,
whom I first discovered through her short stories published by *Ellery
Queen's...
A Short Personal Update
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I don't want to get into too many details, but I wanted to give an
explanation to my loyal readers. May 22 I went to the Emergency room and
withi...
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 ...
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...
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 unlikely heroes
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Another Remembrance Day has slipped past us, and both world wars move
slowly from living memory. The cenotaph in the village is covered with
wreaths of...
A Short Personal Update
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I don't want to get into too many details, but I wanted to give an
explanation to my loyal readers. May 22 I went to the Emergency room and
withi...
Desperate Spies by Mark de Castrique
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Remember when I complained about Richard Osman’s The Impossible Fortune
because it had too much cryptocurrency in it? I just finished Mark de
Castrique’s m...
Be a Squirrel
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Dear Lovely Reader:I must apologize, first of all, for missing my essay
slot two weeks ago. I was, as usual, experiencing technical difficulties,
this tim...
FFB-HOTEL DU LAC, Anita Brookner
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I read this years ago but I just read it again. It is probably too slow
for many, but I loved it. A romance novelist flies to Switzerland and is
stayin...
Amazon Decides, Goodreads Deliberates
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Two thousand twenty-five’s “best crime fiction of the year” pronouncements
seemed to dribble out at first, but now their pace of delivery is
accelerating. ...
A Soaking Up the Sun Weekly Link Round-Up
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The weather has been absolutely glorious here in Phoenix. Temperatures in
the 70s and 80s, light breezes, plenty of sunshine. I'd been staying
indoors ...
The World at Home by Ginny Kubitz Moyer
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THE WORLD AT HOME is Ginny Kubitz Moyer's wonderful historical love story
from She Writes. A description is below:
"San Francisco in 1944 is a bustling p...
Publishing by the Numbers from James W. Ziskin
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*Share a "hot take" about the book world, an opinion of yours that might be
unpopular but is a hill you're willing to die on (at least for now).*
Not sur...
Hello
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Hello, if you’ve wandered here from I don’t know where. If you were looking
for something but didn’t find it, hello. Or maybe you did. If so, hello.
I’m gl...
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,...
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.
...
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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