All the books I write about here are books I've either bought or borrowed from a library. This blog is just a record of my weekly reading.
I don't accept ARCs for review, though I appreciate those who do because their blogs clue me in to new books.
Edgar Nominees for Best Novel and First Novel
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The Edgar nominees for Best Novel have been announced. The winner will be
announced on April 26.
THE RANGER by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam'...
Flash Fiction: Preparing the Lure by Rob Kitchin
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Jimmy Kiley nudged open the kitchen door with his right foot, a blocky
handgun gripped between both hands. Johnny Croft, a man-mountain dressed in
jeans an...
Book Art
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I've been mesmerised this week by the novel uses of books and paper.
Defacing books is a bad thing obviously, but not when it’s put to use like
this.
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Brad Parks, Guest Blogger
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I always allow guest bloggers to choose their theme, and sometimes they
surprise me. I usually expect a blog about their books, their characters or
writin...
Getting Lost (& Found) On The Internet!
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I love the Internet. In fact, I’d have to say I’m addicted. Hello everyone.
My name is Dale Mayer and I’m addicted to the Internet. There, the first
step ...
"The Starboard Sea"
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Amber Dermont received her MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines and a...
Stuffed crowdedly with adverbs
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*A*dverbs are out of favor in crime fiction these days, but American pulp
writing in the middle of the last century was full of them — stuffedly full.
In ...
Letting the Story Come to You—by Shelly Frome
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*by Shelly Frome, @shellyFrome*
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[image: Twinning_final3 copy[2]]There was an instructor at a prestigious
college program in the Midwest who always ga...
What’s On The Horizon?
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Our eyes seem to have a traced pattern depending on what we look at,
particularly when it comes to landscape images. That’s why these Tree, Line
images by ...
A CORRECTION FROM LAWRENCE BLOCK
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*THE TRUE STORY OF THE WORST STORY EVER WRITTEN*
Before I close this saga of my days at The Scott Meredith Literary Agency,
I need to offer a correction....
Book News: Janet Laurence
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It's been around ten years since Janet Laurence's last (fiction) book was
published but I'm pleased to see that she has a new series beginning with Deadly
...
Cara Black Guest Post: Murder at the Lanterne Rouge
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Today I welcome *Cara Black*, Author of the *Aimee Leduc Investigations*mystery series.
*Cara Black will be in Berkeley on March 14 for a Literary Salon wi...
Listening to James Ellroy
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*(Editor’s note: Steven Powell is a British scholar and the co-editor of The
Venetian Vase, a crime-fiction blog. I became acquainted with him when he
invi...
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My review of Dana Stabenow's *Restless in the Grave* appeared last month in Shelf
Awareness for Readers. I am reposting it here with their permission. If yo...
Review: Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark
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Links: Amazon, Amazon UK, Book Depository UK Personally I’m always wary of
celebrity authors believing that the celebrity part of the equation has
been mor...
Sandbagging
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This week's blog brings back some memories from 2011 and a few shots taken in the last week or so.
The first group of photographs are from our trip to ...
HIGH ADVENTURE by Donald E. Westlake
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Pilot Kirby Galway is having a bad week. He has two different customers
(for the Pre-Columbian artifacts he smuggles) show up at his home in Belize
at the...
Just One Thing to Say
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At the James River Writers Conference this year, Robert Goolrick (and I had
a totally fangirl reaction to him! What a writer!) said most writers have
just ...
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