Buckeye Book Fair

November 05, 2023

I don’t think I missed much yesterday by going to Wooster to the Buckeye Book Fair instead of watching the Ohio State Buckeyes’ football game. Instead, I was able to spend some time with mystery authors. Oh, the fair wasn’t all mystery authors. There...

Private Investigations edited by Victoria Zackheim

May 10, 2020

Yesterday, author Art Taylor wrote a guest post talking about writing what one knows, or what one researches. Victoria Zackheim edited a collection called Private Investigations, the perfect follow-up to Taylor’s post. It’s subtitled “Mystery...

Fiction Can Be Murder by Becky Clark

April 10, 2018

Becky Clark, the author of “funny mysteries with a dash of murder”, launches a new series with Fiction Can Be Murder. But, humor isn’t universal, and I found the ending absurd and the motivation improbable. However, I know others will enjoy...

Wanted – Short Posts from Mystery Authors

November 17, 2016

Ah ha! I bet that wasn’t exactly what you expected to see on my blog in mid-November. It’s one of my favorite Christmas books. I’m looking for mystery authors to write a short piece about their favorite holiday mystery, or their favorite mysteries of...

Written Off by E.J. Copperman

June 18, 2016

How many of you are old enough to remember Remington Steele? The Remington Steele Detective Agency was actually owned by a woman, but, because the TV show started in 1982, she needed a man’s name, and a man as a frontman. She ended up working with a man who...