Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we got April showers and great cozies; this month, we get beautiful weather and more amazing books! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to read next!…
Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! We kicked this off last month with April's releases, and now we're setting our sights on May! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to read next! Criminal Element's…
Watch this and up your classy quotient! The Librarians’ Breakfast during Bouchercon was sponsored by Mystery Writers of America—thanks, and sorry I bogarted the coffee! It was hosted by the inspirational Mary Higgins Clark, crime writing’s acme of loveliness and graciousness. (How does she do it?! I admit I suspect a crabby-faced, unkempt portrait in…
Murder Most Austen by Tracy Kiely is the fourth book in the Elizabeth Parker cozy mystery series (available September 4, 2012). “If I had known that someone was going to kill the man sitting in 4B three days hence, I probably wouldn’t have fantasized about doing the deed myself.” An ardent Anglophile, Elizabeth Parker can’t…
Today, Mystery Writers of America announced the list of nominees for the 2012 Edgars, named after you-know-who, and honoring the best in mystery fiction, non- fiction and television published or produced in 2011. The winners will be announced at the Edgar Awards ceremony on April 26th. (And we’ll be live-tweeting it for sure!) BEST NOVEL…
One of the most enjoyable aspects of reading a story that strongly references another is the zing of recognition the reader feels each time they “get” the joke. Borrowing heavily from Jane Austen’s Peruasion, Tracy Kiely’s cozy mystery, appropriately titled Murder Most Persuasive, managed to give this reader quite a few zings while delivering a…
