The most important things you learn in a homicide investigation you can't see or touch. It's how people feel."
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- 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.
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Scene of the Crime with Author Vicki Lane! - I don't know about any of the rest of you, but I love reading books set in the Appalachian Mountains that tell of the country, its history, and its peopl...
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"Anatomy of Murder" - Imogen Robertson is a writer based in London. Her first book Instruments of Darkness was published in the U.K. in May 2009. She applied the Page 69 Test to ...
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Of Fests, Ferraris, and Film Fare - *• In Reference to Murder’s B.V. Lawson* reminds us that this week “the popular Sleuthfest opens in Orlando, Florida, and runs March 1-4. The guests of hon...3 hours ago
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Tips for Writer’s Conferences - *by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig* Although it’s tough for me to get away, I really enjoy going to writer’s conferences. I love the chance to see ...
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Guest Author Junying Kirk - Our guest author this week is Junying Kirk. She grew up in the turbulent times of the Cultural Revolution and came from China to Britain in 1982, on a sch...
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When a Challenge isn't... - I joined the British Books Challenge at the beginning of this year, just as I have in 2010 and 2011. In both of those previous years I completed the chall...
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Terrace Illusion recreated in LEGO - After Sandro Del Prete started the trend with his Folded Chessboard, many artists (inspired by his work) made an effort to recreate similar works based on ...10 hours ago
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Am I a Book Banner? - What do you think? I walked into my library today and on the shelf found Quentin Rowan Markam's Assassin of Secrets. I debated what to do, not believing t...
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Academy Award Winning and Nominated Crime Movies - *Just in time for the Oscars: Academy Award Crime Movies: Winners and Nominees. *Many of the films are based on books which makes them all that much bette...
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New Reviews: Akunin, Brophy, Craig, Ellis, Forshaw, Hannah, Harper, Mallo, Robinson - Win 3 Richard Nottingham mysteries by Chris Nickson (UK only) closes 29 February. Here are this week's 9 new reviews: Laura Root reviews the tenth (and fi...20 hours ago
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SOOKIE, CHARLAINE HARRIS' COMPANION - [image: harrischarlaine_sookiecompanion] Long-running series will, naturally, have a slew of characters who come in and out of the novels. Some will b...22 hours ago
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Living Proof by Kira Peikoff - Kira Peikoff's debut novel, *Living Proof*, examines the state of medicine in the U.S. in the near future, following "the day when science died." It's a t...
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Bullhead by Michael R. Roskam – review - Bullhead is a refreshingly unpredictable film from Belgium about illegal hormone beef trading. At least, that’s what it seems like at first. (Hey, I said...1 day ago
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The Children of Men - *B*aroness James of Holland Park is probably best known for her novels about Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray and for the television series based on the f...
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Breathing Space - Yesterday, I was talking to Edie, another of our wonderful writers here at Magical Musings. I told her I needed a blog topic for today. Part of the reason ...2 days ago
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FACES OF THE GONE – Brad Parks - As I look forward to reading the third book in this series, I am posting a review of the first book. I definitely recommend this series and there is tim...3 days ago
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books - The Adventures of Romney Pringle - British author R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943) primarily wrote detective stories and is best known for his legal/forensic investigator Dr. John Thorndyke, us...3 days ago
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BAD MOON - Todd Ritter - *First line: *“It was the baby, of all things, that woke her up.” In July of 1969 Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and Charlie Olmstead disappeared. Char...
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Review: Defending Jacob by William Landay - Links: Amazon, Amazon UK, Book Depository UK I decided to read this following a ringing endorsement by Joseph Finder hailing it as one of the best books of...6 days ago
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HIGH ADVENTURE by Donald E. Westlake - 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...
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We Can Take More Winters Like This One - I can't wait for winter to end so I can get out of here and see what is happening in the rest of the world. But, with the rising cost of gas, I'm not really...
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Just One Thing to Say - 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 ...3 months ago
2 comments:
I love Penny's books, but I always listen to them on audio and it's so hard to keep track of all the good quotes that way.
carol, I'm fascinated by each fictional detective's theory of how to solve a crime. In the Penny books, the theory is exactly what this quote says.
And you are right. Louise Penny is very quotable.
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