The purpose of this blog is to bring together feeds from Crime Fiction blogs from all over the world. I hope you find it a useful jumping off spot! If your blog is not listed, let me know via a comment.
The Castaways - Channel 5 TV review
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*The Castaways* is a five-part thriller serial from Paramount which has
just aired on Channel 5. Unlike so many TV shows, it didn't outstay its
welcome,...
Welcome to Milano
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*Annamaria on Monday *
Here are some images from the first stop on an art-peeping tour of northern
Italy. My friend Kate and I have been planning this f...
Ayatsuji Yukito
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Ayatsuji Yukito (Kyoto, 1960), the pen name of Uchida Naoyuki, is a
Japanese writer of mystery and horror novels and one of the founding
members of the Hon...
Review: THE POLITICIAN, Tim Sullivan
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- This edition an e-book provided by my local library on Libby
- #4 in the DS Cross Mystery series
- author website
*Synopsis* (publishe...
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...
I'm struggling with organization
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By Steve Pease/Michael Chandos I am mainly a short story writer. I like
the format of a 30-40 minute story and I like pulling the puzzle pieces
together...
Stone Certainty by Simon R. Green
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The Holy Terrors are back in Simon R. Green’s second mystery to feature
them, but I found Stone Certainty a little disappointing. There’s a line in
the boo...
Getting Creative in Gloomy February
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*February can be a bleak month. How do you overcome periods of lethargy and
re-energize yourself creatively and otherwise? *
Brenda
Living in Canada, the ...
Awww Mondays
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This is a fun hop hosted by Comedy Plus
*Oreo has decided to be my assistant. Most nights she sits on the chair
next to mine.*
*Happy Monday!*
...
Monday, Monday
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Do you ever wonder how twenty-somethings can afford a restaurant that makes
me blanch at the prices? It was a wonderful sushi restaurant in a restored
Vi...
Welcome to Milano
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*Annamaria on Monday *
Here are some images from the first stop on an art-peeping tour of northern
Italy. My friend Kate and I have been planning this f...
Group Efforts
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A change has been made in the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s annual
Derringer Awards program. In addition to the usual prizes for Best Flash
Story, Best S...
Books Read in January 2025
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I read 4 books in January, half the number I used to read. My reading has
slowed down considerably over the last 2 years and I no longer write in
much deta...
The Monthly Reset and Dodging Curve Balls
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By
Scott D. Parker
A few weeks ago, I wrote about giving yourself the grace to start, stop,
and then restart a habit. That was just after Quitter’s D...
TGIF at last
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Cyber security protocol
I'm soft DNFing the Stanley Tucci book. It is a library loan that is up in
about three days. I'm at about 55% in it. It is a dia...
Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations – January 2025
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January is almost over, so it’s time to discuss our favorite Cozies that we
read this month! If you read a Cozy mystery this month and want to
recommend it...
A Technologically Annoyed Weekly Link Round-Up
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Things have been going so well here at Casa Kittling. Denis is feeling (and
moving around) better. We've both been rejuvenated by our trip to the zoo,
...
The Weekend Guests - Liza North
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The Weekend Guests is new from author Liza North.
The subtitle reads "Five old friends. A reunion to die for". The cover
image also promises a dark read....
Was Shakespeare a Spy? By Howard Linskey
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The man at the heart of my Elizabethan murder mystery was a writer and an
actor but was he also a spy?
William Shakespeare was a playwright, the world’s ...
Book Club Favorites of 2024
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The fiction book club I lead at One More Page Books kicks off the new year
by talking about our favorite reads of the previous year. We call it a
book c...
Ode to Grapefruit by Kari Lavelle
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Lavelle, Kari. Ode to Grapefruit: How James Earl Jones Found His Voice.
Illustrated by Bryan Collier. Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. The things you can
learn from ...
So long, 2024. Bring it, 2025
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I’m ringing out the year on a cool, sunny afternoon in Austin. The week
between Christmas and New Year is always a period when time feels suspended
for me....
Two by John Banville in the Quirke series
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Has anaybody been reading the John Banville novels featuring Quirke, the
Dublin pathologist in the postwar years (published under the pseudonym
Benjamin...
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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