Monday, April 20, 2026

Sujata Massey Provides Fifth India Mystery, A STAR FROM CALCUTTA, with Perveen Mistry

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For the only female lawyer in Bombay in 1922, it seems every situation offers a new challenge. Can Perveen maintain her dignity in a culture...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

Buckle Up for a Wild Ride of Murder and Snort-Your-Coffee Humor with Karsten Dusse, MURDER MINDFULLY

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The classics of darkly funny crime fiction are feeling a bit dated -- who reads Donald Westlake's caper mysteries now? Of course, there ...
Monday, March 09, 2026

New Taipei Night Market Crime Novel from Ed Lin, THE DEAD CAN'T MAKE A LIVING

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  If you are an American or a European, you may feel like "immigrants" is a fighting word where you live -- the kind of issue that...
Wednesday, March 04, 2026

When the Author Builds Herself a World: Nicola Griffith, SHE IS HERE

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Last July I mentioned Nicola Griffith, whose lush noir crime fiction can be a slow-read delight. At that point, her Aud Torvingen trilogy, f...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Two Memorable Crime Novels for Winter Reading: Con Lehane's THE RED SCARE and Cara Black's HUGUETTE (December Releases)

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New York City in 1950 held neighborhoods far more separate than they are today: From Hell's Kitchen, where Mick Mulligan is starting his...
Sunday, November 02, 2025

Three Kinds of Crime Fiction/Mystery, 3 Settings: Hamburg, Fiji, Maine

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Catching up a bit ... I picked up HAMBURG NOIR over the summer, as it had an August release date. Part of the top-notch and provocative Akas...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Brief Mention: THE NAMING OF THE BIRDS by Paraic O'Donnell

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I found Paraic O'Donnell's two earlier books, The Maker of Swans and The House on Vesper Sands , so compelling that I've shelve...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Scottish Noir, THE DIARY OF LIES by Philip Miller (3rd Shona Sandison Book)

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Beach reading is wrapping up -- it's time for substantial and satisfying crime fiction to go with the hints of autumn rolling in. And th...
Saturday, August 09, 2025

New Billy Boyle World War II Mystery, A BITTER WIND, by James Benn

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About six weeks from now, the latest World War II mystery featuring Captain Billy Boyle comes out. That seems like a long time in terms of w...
Sunday, August 03, 2025

Suicide or Murder? Frankie and Her Allies Hunt Answers in FINE YOUNG PEOPLE by Anna Bruno

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High school suicide destroys much more than the student who dies — it marks an entire community with grief, anger, and questions. In her las...

Football? FBI? Woman Taking Risks? and Southern! Dip Into MISSISSIPPI BLUE 42, by Eli Cranor

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Eli Cranor moves toward the middle of the field, away from some of the gore and violence of  Don't Know Tough, Ozark Dogs,  and  Broiler...
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

Crime Fiction, or Science Fiction? Eric Rickstad's REMOTE: THE FIVE (The Remote Series Book 2)

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It's rare that a publisher and author can dance their calendars so well that book 2 in a series is published before you've lost the ...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Catching up on Crime Fiction, June 2025: Two Legal Thrillers

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In the middle of May, many authors who've been donating their time as book reviewers to the New York Journal of Books received sudden an...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Crime Fiction from Nicola Griffith, June's Nebula Grand Master

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 Nicola Griffith at center, with her award. The Nebula Award is for science fiction, not mystery -- but author Nicola Griffith has been abl...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

MILO'S RECKONING by Joseph Olshan: Crime Fiction, Tender on the Tongue

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  [NOTE: With the lamented closing of the New York Journal of Books last month, I am returning to reviewing crime fiction, mysteries, thri...
Monday, June 26, 2023

Book Reviews Continue -- Over at the Writing Blog

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The reviews are shorter now, and less formal, but with fresh energy. Don't miss the recommendations for new books, especially Chris McKi...
Friday, June 09, 2023

Look Over Here ...

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Book recommendations ARE continuing ... over on my author blog, https://bethkanell.blogspot.com . Come read today's material.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Au Revoir but Not Goodbye, May 31, 2023

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Dave and I took huge joy in creating Kingdom Books, first as a specialty bookshop (mysteries, poetry, Vermontiana) and then as a review blog...
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Adventure, Murder, and Twists of Bookstore Merriment from Tamara Berry, in MURDER OFF THE BOOKS

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Tamara Berry's wicked sense of humor is a great match for her neatly twisted plots in her "By the Book Mysteries," set in the ...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Nordic Noir in 13th Harry Hole Crime Novel from Jo Nesbø, KILLING MOON

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 [ Originally published at New York Journal of Books ] “Nesbø never releases the heartstrings through an otherwise classi...