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Mysteries and crime fiction reviewed here with knowledge and delight. Classic to cutting edge.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

The BIG Questions of Our Lives: SUMMER OF THE DEAD, Julia Keller

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It's publication day for Julia Keller 's newest West Virginia mystery featuring scrappy county prosecutor Bell Elkins and her team...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Intriguing Radio Interviews with Louise Penny: "There Is No Peace Without Courage"

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If you'd like to hear Louise Penny discussing her new August 26 release, The Long Way Home , here are two links: -- The NPR intervie...

Louise Penny and Brome Lake Books, A Rare Partnership

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Yesterday Dave and I drove eagerly north, across the border into Canada, for the pre-release book party for Louise Penny's new Armand ...
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Friday, August 15, 2014

Espionage in Turkey: A COLDER WAR by Charles Cumming

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Charles Cumming brings back Thomas Kell for a second time in A COLDER WAR, the sequel to A Foreign Country  -- and it's a solid work o...

Amateur Sleuth with Synesthesia: MURDER WITH A TWIST, Allyson K. Abbott

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The second book in Allyson Abbott's "Mack's Bar" series is out! And there's still a chunk of summer left for reading...
Friday, August 08, 2014

"Slasher Film" Plus Courage = WELCOME TO THE DARK HOUSE

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Okay, 'fess up: Don't you sometimes feel just a little nervous when you get home alone to a dark house and something feels "f...

Timothy Hallinan's Junior Bender Series: A Thief Who Solves Crimes

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I ran across Timothy Hallinan's mysteries in his Poke Rafferty series, set in Thailand -- a series that includes all the best of in...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

In or Near Vermont This Weekend? Come Meet Eliot Pattison!

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Edgar Award-winning mystery author Eliot Pattison will again visit Kingdom Books for conversation about his research and writing, whic...
Monday, July 28, 2014

A Little "Longmire" News

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This is pretty far in advance to say so, but ... we are planning to have signed copies of a number of Craig Johnson's "Longmire...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Top Summer Suspense: THE GOOD GIRL, Mary Kubica

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THE GOOD GIRL is a debut thriller from Mary Kubica, a married mom of two who lives outside Chicago and has a degree in history and America...

Washington, DC, Mysteries: Max Allan Collins and Andy Straka

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Last fall my mystery-collecting husband Dave and I took advantage of a national mystery conference being almost in our area, as Bouchercon...

Amateur Sleuth in the Deli: TO KILL A MATZO BALL, Delia Rosen

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I get a kick out of the amateur sleuth mysteries that Kensington provides as paperback original. These are generally light-hearted, quickl...

THE ARSONIST, Sue Miller

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A Boston author, a New Hampshire setting, a crime in progress (serial arson), and potential insight into how communities react to multiple...

New Nonfiction on Spy Kim Philby: Two Lively Reviews and an Interview

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The espionage novels of John Le Carré, for me, are more than classic spy fiction -- they are the material I go to repeatedly when I want t...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

New Today from Taylor Stevens: THE CATCH

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About twice a year I wish I lived near Texas ... and now is one of those times. Not for the climate, or the urban traffic, but for the pre...

Australian Noir Gets Complicated: HELL TO PAY, Garry Disher

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Garry Disher's mysteries have come in two basic flavors : crime with a dash of satisfaction in the investigation (try his Hall Challis...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Worth the Wait: MURDERED SLEEP, A Dade Wyatt Mystery, R. A. Harold

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R. A. (Roberta, a.k.a. Robbie) Harold's first Dade Wyatt mystery, set on Vermont's Lake Champlain, came out to great reviews in 20...
Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Speaking of Independence ... Hattie Davish Turns Sleuth in Victorian Newport, Rhode Island

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Anna Loan-Wilsey 's third Hattie Davish mystery is in print! A SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT follows A Lack of Temperance and Anything But Civ...
Sunday, July 06, 2014

Brief Mentions: Alan Furst, Åsa Larsson, Joelle Charbonneau

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Summer schedules can be downright challenging, but the graduations, birthday, and family weddings are over for now, and I have a great stack...

Henry Chang, DEATH MONEY: NYC Chinatown Series, Jack Yu

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Henry Chang's Chinatown series, set mostly in New York City's Chinatown, is maturing and becoming very strong indeed. In the fourt...
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