Crime Writers of Canada has released its longlist for the 2014 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. The shortlist for […]
Archive for ‘Ramblings of a crime reader’
Book in hand
Boulder Books, Colorado The lure of old school A friend dropped off two books for me the other day and […]
Kilmoon
Over the past few months I’ve been happily following and commenting on Lisa Alber’s blog and she has returned in […]
eNovellas: Short form
Photo: Openroadmedia.com The trend for eBook short-stories or eNovellas has increased to the degree that they are now a fully […]
Noir
How dark is it for you? In January I said I would be looking into the book world of noir […]
Harry Bosch: In Person
Many of us have been following Michael Connolly’s LAPD Detective Harry Bosch for 18-years. Now we will be able to […]
The library sneak
It took time and persistence, patience and cunning. At the age of nine I had all of that plus moxie. […]
Sarah Hilary: Keeping The Mythic Distance
Sarah Hilary is an award winning short story writer living in Bath, England. Her first book Someone Else’s Skin, featuring […]
Reading Rick Mofina
Just finished Rick Mofina’s Vengeance Road which is the first book of the Jack Gannon series. While loathe to admit […]
My favourite cooking show
What does a favourite cooking show have to do with crime fiction? Plenty when it is Law & Order reruns. […]