Reviews + Articles
Where Are You Today?
I've started a fascinating book. It's Mystery Writers of America Presents Manhattan Mayhem. It's edited by Mary Higgins Clark, and it celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the founding of MWA. There are stories by Lee Child, Margaret Maron, Jeffery Deaver, and...
Winners and a Break
Congratulations to the winners of the last contests. Beach Town by Mary Kay Andrews will go to Bonnie K. from Sacramento, CA. And, I always wonder about serendipity when both books set in New York City are heading to residents of New York state. Margaret Grace's...
When to Rob a Bank by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
There is no good answer to that question, which is why the subtitle makes a lot of sense. The authors of Freakonomics collected pieces from their blog in the book When to Rob a Bank...and 131 more warped suggestions and well-intended rants. In celebration of the tenth...
Rock with Wings by Anne Hillerman
Anne Hillerman has a gift for descriptive writing about the Southwest. She may have inherited her father's characters, Leaphorn and Chee, but she took that inheritance and made it her own. She puts her own spin on the descriptions, the characters, and the crimes....
Book Chat – June Mysteries from Penguin’s Berkley Prime Crime & Obsidian
Sorry that there are no cats this month. Jinx was napping. However, here's the list of titles from the book chat. Truffled to Death - Kathy Aarons (2nd Chocolate Covered Mystery) A Fatal Chapter - Lorna Barrett (9th Booktown Mystery, hardcover) Fat Cat Spreads Out -...
Beach Town by Mary Kay Andrews
I've been a Mary Kay Andrews fan since the early '90s when she was writing mysteries under the name Kathy Hogan Trocheck. And, as much as I liked those books, and have enjoyed some of her standalones written under Andrews, she's moved up a notch with Beach Town....