Kingdom Books, Mysteries - Reviews

Fans of Margaret Maron's Deborah Knott series will delight in number 16, released just in time to kindle the Christmas spirit -- family,...

It's time to double-check the holiday lists, including those of gifts, and insert some fresh names and ideas. And the new mystery from V...

Today's New York Times included in the Holiday Gift Guide several great lists of "top ten books" by subject or reviewer. I jum...

Wishing you a day of good food, family, and friends, in perfect proportions. I'm immensely grateful for freedoms of speech, images, conv...

Mark the calendar for New York City on April 28, to celebrate greatnews from the Mystery Writers of America!  Sara Paretsky has been chosen ...

U.S. cover We learned it first in The Godfather -- probably the film version, even more than the book: The tension and horror of living ...

Hearing about a work-in-progress from the author always makes me curious. And when Leighton Gage said his fourth Brazilian crime novel was ...

L-R, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Dennis Lehane, Charlaine Harris (L) Julia Spencer-Fleming, (R) Charlaine Harris Yours truly, garbed fo...

Yours truly, masked for the vampire banquet. Julia Spencer-Fleming made plain her philosophy this morning: Suspense lies in the character...

Charlaine Harris So you thought yesterday's question about whether the Harry Potter books could be seen as mysteries had an open-and-...

Mysteries are my bread-and-butter, my meat and potatoes, my chocolate cake with raspberry ganache. Every now and then, I detour into other a...

The week after you finish writing a novel is a low-key one, so I'll just add a couple of notes this evening. One is: Hurrah, the new Den...

The call that wakes NYPD Detective Jack Yu seems like a simple case of mild political pull: A Chinatown group that's helped the police f...

The full title of this densely packed collection from New Pulp Press is 21 TALES FROM THE MODERN MASTER OF NOIR. It's a good description...

The newest Carla Neggers book releases tomorrow, and I've already heard from my "supplier" that my copy of COLD DAWN is on the...

The crime TV shows ( CSI , Criminal Minds , Law & Order , etc.) expose us all to the notion of a career criminal's "signature....

"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all...

The Anthony Awards, announced today at Bouchercon, went to: Best Novel: The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Armand Gamache series, #5; Min...

Later today, the Crimespree, Derringer, and Anthony awards will be announced at Bouchercon in San Francisco. Here are the other awards that...

It's Bouchercon week in San Francisco, and guest of honor Laurie R. King (with her web maven Vicki) is making sure those of us who can...