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Book Review: Vintage Crime edited by Martin Edwards

By Doreen Sheridan

August 14, 2020

The Crime Writers Association is a venerable society founded in 1953 to support, promote, and celebrate the overarching crime genre. While based in the UK, it also has many members from other nations. It is perhaps best known nowadays for awarding the prestigious CWA Dagger awards, honoring the year’s best crime writing. Since 1956, the…

Book Review: The Liar in the Library by Simon Brett

By Janet Webb

June 21, 2019

The Liar in the Library by Simon Brett is the 18th book in the Feathering Village Mystery series with prim and proper Carole Seddon and Jude, the bohemian healer with a colorful past. Despite their differences, they make for an unbeatable, amateur sleuthing team and their skills are needed now more than ever. The Liar…

Lowdown Calendar: More of 2015’s Mystery Conventions

By Crime HQ

January 26, 2015

We've already highlighted 5 of the biggest mystery fan conventions of 2015, but lucky for us, there are tons more great conferences happening all over, including regional or specialty crime fiction events with their own focuses and unique twists. So here's another bunch of terrific happenings to consider, and we'd love your comments on any…

Fatal Footlights: The Theater Mystery

By Michael Nethercott

October 25, 2014

The theater world has long been a prime setting for mystery and mayhem. Shakespeare, that homicidal scribe, virtually carpeted the stage with slain corpses. The murderers he created are numerous: Richard III, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Lear’s daughter Goneril, Macbeth (both He and She) and a whole squad of Caesar-skewering assassins—whose best-known member, Brutus, made this…

CrimeFest 2013 Award Winners

By Crime HQ

June 3, 2013

CrimeFest bills itself as “a convention for people who like to read an occasional crime novel as well as for die-hard fanatics.” In other words, a convention for everyone in the world. And since CrimeFest 2013, held as it is every year in Bristol, England, included a panel discussion with the creators of BBC’s Sherlock,…

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