That's cute. I review many mysteries and started my blog as only mysteries. Now I include memoirs and literary fiction but my first love is a good mystery.
I'm Back!!
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Saturday–Jeff
It’s been a rough several weeks but … fingers crossed… things seem to be
back on course.
Earlier this week , “The Campus Files” publ...
Forgotten Book - Home to Roost
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Not long ago, I acquired a copy of Andrew Garve's *Home to Roost *(1976)
and it was working its way up the to-read pile ever so slowly until Jamie
Sturg...
Review - 1st to Die
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James Patterson is well known whether you read his books or not. He writes
multiple books every year by collaborating with other authors. Thus, he is
one...
Books From My Past
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So, what do these five books have in common? I will tell you: each of them
was read by me at some point during my twenty-five years of employment at
the Ho...
Review: THE NEW NEIGHBOURS, Claire Douglas
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this edition a trade paperback from my local library
- published Penguin Random House 2025
- ISBN 978-1-405-95764-9
- 391 pages
*Syn...
New Releases - January 2026
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I am getting more up to date - here is what I've got on my database for *January
2026*. I am currently working on February 2026.
Please note that, unless...
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 Blood Promise by Mark Pryor
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While the third book in Mark Pryor’s Hugo Marston series had a fascinating
two hundred year old mystery, it was also a tragic book. The Blood Promise
intro...
I'm Back!!
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Saturday–Jeff
It’s been a rough several weeks but … fingers crossed… things seem to be
back on course.
Earlier this week , “The Campus Files” publ...
Vision Board Before Writing
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"Masquerade" by Shelley BurbankHi Everyone. Shelley Burbank here. March has
begun, and I'm wallowing and wading in my next Olivia Lively mystery. The
first...
The Blank Page and the Dizziness of Freedom
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‘Anxiety,’ Kierkegaard said, ‘is the dizziness of freedom.’ Normally I’d
disagree; for me, anxiety is more of a response to the claustrophobia that
comes ...
Revue of Reviewers: 3-5-26
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*Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and
thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more.*
The I Want to Hurkle-Durkle Weekly Link Round-Up
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The start to this week was not good. I won't go into details, but insult
was added to injury when I had to deal with both the Social Security
Administr...
Review - 1st to Die
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James Patterson is well known whether you read his books or not. He writes
multiple books every year by collaborating with other authors. Thus, he is
one...
Tracy Maton on Writing What You Love
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I began writing *The Artful Anna Harris* as an act of rebellion. After many
false starts, two previous novels had come close but ultimately failed to
fin...
Books From My Past
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So, what do these five books have in common? I will tell you: each of them
was read by me at some point during my twenty-five years of employment at
the Ho...
2026 Big Game’s On Read-a-thon: Half-Time Report!
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Half-time is here! It’s is time to reminisce on what you’ve read so far
today. How has your reading gone so far? What snacks have you partaken
in? I fi...
Weekly Mews: January Wrap Up & February's Maybes
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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...
Cover Story picks up a Mole
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In a previous post, I mentioned that my new novel Cover Story had been
picked by spy fiction superfan and journalist Tim Shipman as one of his top
reads of...
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...
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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That's cute. I review many mysteries and started my blog as only mysteries. Now I include memoirs and literary fiction but my first love is a good mystery.
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