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Police Scotland’s DCI Alex Morrow is back in Blood Salt Water investigating two murders that may—or may not—be connected

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The title of the book is inspired by a quote of President John F. Kennedy and for Denise it speaks to the connectivity of lives, circumstances and geography.

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World’s Greatest Detective Elvis Cole may be driving The Promise, but fans will appreciate that Joe Pike, Jon Stone and the team of Scott James and Maggie the LAPD K-9 are worthy co-pilots to the story

 

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Check out the schedule for Robert Crais book tour.

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When it comes to elements of a locked-room mystery, there isn’t any location much more atmospheric—or claustrophobic—than a submarine. A setting James Law uses to great advantage in his debut crime fiction novel, Tenacity

 

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Law knows of what he writes. He’s a former senior nuclear engineer in the Royal Navy Submarine Service. In Tenacity, his protagonist Danielle “Dan” Lewis goes where no woman has gone before: on board a Royal Naval Submarine at sea. The question is: Is she in over her head?

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According to Les Klinger, co-creator of Speaking of Mysteries, Bonnie MacBird’s Sherlock Holmes adventure, Art in the Blood, “has the three key ingredients for a delicious pastiche: Meticulous research, plausibility and grand fun!”

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As if fans didn’t already know, there’s really nothing darker than the distaff side of crime fiction. One look at the choice of novels included in Women Crime Writer’s: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s and you’ll know there is no better guide to this harrowing region of the genre than Sarah Weinman

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Our schedule of interviews for the rest of October is shaping up to be great

 

Les Klinger, fresh from winning an Anthony Award for Anthologies at Bouchercon 2015 for In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, which he co-edited with Laurie R. King, will be interviewing

  • Sarah Weinman on Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s, the anthology she edited for The Library of America
  • Bonnie MacBird on Art in the Blood, her Sherlock Holmes adventure that takes the great consulting detective, along with his Boswell, John Watson M.D., to Paris

 

 

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In the early 1980’s, Mexican historian and journalist Héctor Aguilar Camín wrote his mystery novel about the intersection of oil, politics, money and corruption in Mexico. The translation by Chandler Thompson comes just as Mexico is about to privatize Pemex, the country’s national oil company, an event of historic proportions that goes to the very heart of Mexico’s modern identity

 

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I wish Speaking of Mysteries was posting its own interview with Héctor Aguilar Camín, but I don’t speak Spanish. After reading this book, though, I was sorely tempted to learn. But that would have meant years before the interview about Death in Veracruz could be conducted, let alone posted. Tom Nolan gave Death in Veracruz a glowing review in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required to read the entire review) as did Kirkus. Héctor Aguilar Camín was interviewed by David Garza for Kirkus. I’m taking Spanish lessons in anticipation of Aguilar Camín’s next book.

 

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The prolific mystery writer discusses how the work of Tony Hillerman inspired her to write the Constable Evan Evans series, toggling between her two current series—for which she produces at least one novel a year for each, the most recent being Malice at the Palace—adventures in book touring and the role of social media in her work

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