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Steve Weddle

Book Review: Lockdown: Stories of Crime, Terror, and Hope During a Pandemic

By J.B. Stevens

June 15, 2020

“COVID-19 promises to alter us all in strange ways. It’s a paradigm-shifting event that divides lives and cultures into a before and after. We will emerge changed, though how those changes will manifest is far from certain. The sensory details of this outbreak—the masks, the faces of doctors and nurses creased with worry and fatigue,…

Letter from Lyon: At 2015’s Quais du Polar

By Jake Hinkson

April 17, 2015

The Quais Du Polar is the largest crime fiction festival in France, and that’s saying a lot, because the French love crime fiction. Sure, mysteries (and to a lesser extent, noir) are big in the U.S., but crime fiction in France is a cultural phenomenon reaching back decades. The French, god love them, are obsessed…

Now Win This!: Thanksgiving Sweeeeeepstakes

By Crime HQ

November 26, 2013

We're giving thanks for the opportunity to do a Sweeeeeepstakes of six great e-books! Click here to enter for a chance to win! This is NOT a Comments Sweepstakes. You must click the link above to enter. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. Sweepstakes open to legal residents of 50…

Murder to Mil-Spec

Crime for a Cause: Crime Fiction Anthologies for Charity

By Laura K. Curtis

August 30, 2012

For several years, Wolfmont Press produced an annual holiday crime fiction anthology that benefited Toys for Tots.  2009 marked the last of these, with the 2010 charity anthology—called Murder to Mil-Spec—benefiting Homes for Our Troops, instead. These were fabulous anthologies, and if you can find a copy you should grab one; they were limited in…

miscellaneous word magnets

Short Stories: Fewer Words, More Work?

By Elizabeth A White

May 5, 2011

As I took inventory of what I'd been reading recently, I realized I've been reading a lot of short stories, both as single-serve and in collections. In fact, as I thought about it, I realized it seems as if I've being seeing more crime fiction shorts lately than I can remember seeing in quite some…

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