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A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham: Cover Reveal and Excerpt

By Crime HQ

May 14, 2021

Available wherever books are sold on January 11, 2022 — pre-order today from any of these partner bookstores: Anderson’s Book Shop (Naperville, IL) BookBar Denver (Denver, CO) Book Carnival (Orange, CA) Cavalier House Books (Denham Springs, LA) Copper Dog Books (Beverly, MA) Fiction Addiction (Greenville, SC) Fountain Bookstore (Richmond, VA) Itinerant Literate (Charleston, SC) My Sister’s Books (Pawley’s Island, SC) Murder by the Book (Houston,…

The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter: Cover Reveal and Excerpt

By Crime HQ

November 11, 2020

Available wherever books are sold May 25, 2021 — pre-order today from any of these partner bookstores: Anderson’s Bookshops (Naperville, IL / Downers Grove, IL) An Unlikely Story (Plainville, MA) Books Are Magic (Brooklyn, NY) Book Passage (Corte Madera, CA / San Francisco, CA) Copper Dog Books (Beverly, MA) Fiction Addiction (Greenville, SC) McIntyre’s Books…

Pokémon GO…to Your Local Bookstore

By Martin Quinn

July 28, 2016

What do you do when you find out your bookstore is also a PokéStop? Reel those customers in with a discount offer! That’s what McKenna Jordan, owner of Murder By the Book in Houston, did. She estimates that 50-100 customers have frequented her store as a result of the game, and early on, she promoted an offer…

Fresh Meat: Caught Read-Handed by Terrie Farley Moran

By Laura K. Curtis

July 5, 2015

Caught Read-Handed by Terrie Farley Moran is the second in the Read ’Em and Eat cozy mystery series set in the quirky Florida town of Fort Myers Beach (available July 7, 2015). Sassy and Bridgy are at it again in the second book in Terrie Farley Moran’s mystery series about a café complete with bookshop…

Don’t Go Home: New Excerpt

By Carolyn Hart

April 30, 2015

Don't Go Home by Carolyn Hart is the 25th cozy mystery in the Death of Demand series about Annie Darling, owner of a mystery bookstore (available May 5, 2015). Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, is hosting a party to celebrate successful Southern literary icon—and former Broward’s Rock resident—Alex Griffith and…

A Night on the Town: Book Clubbing

By Crime HQ

December 26, 2014

Some people like going clubbing, and some people like book clubbing, but until now, these two scenes have never really crossed paths. Thanks to Eslite, a revolutionary book store located in Taipei, Taiwan, night-owls are ingesting literature into their nights out. The five-story store first opened in 1989. Since then, 42 stores have opened in…

2014’s Edgar Awards: A Grand Night for Books

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

May 6, 2014

I considered titling this post “The Night I Hugged John Connolly,” but that might sound like I’m showing off. So I’ll begin my recap of the 68th annual Edgar Awards gala banquet at the nominees’ cocktail party, the prelude to the grandest evening in the mystery community’s year. In a reception room at the Grand…

Blood-Curdling Bookmark

By Crime HQ

December 19, 2013

Do you have a book lover on your shopping list this holiday season? Looking to add another item to your own wish list? Try this bloody bookmark on for size! Looking for other gifts for the bibliophile in your life: check out this post of 24 Insanely Clever Gifts for Book Lovers.

Robert Crais and Carolyn Hart: 2014's Mystery Writers of America's Grandmasters

MWA Announces 2014 Grand Masters and Raven Winner!

By Crime HQ

December 4, 2013

Mystery Writers of America has just announced its new Grand Masters for 2014, and authors Robert Crais and Carolyn Hart will be honored at the Edgar Awards banquet next May 1st. In addition to these worthies, also to be feted will be Aunt Agatha's—a new and used mystery and crime bookshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan—…

The Biblio-Mat: Automation Adds Mystery to Book Buying. Really!

By Crime HQ

November 21, 2012

Via NPR: Stephen Fowler is a used book seller and owner of The Monkey’s Paw in Toronto, which specializes in the “old and unusual.” He and his wife came up with an alternative to the ubiquitous sidewalk shelf of discount books and added mystery and excitement in the process! After discussing lower-tech options with his…

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