Read this exclusive guest post from Kate Horsley, author of The American Girl, about the thrill of traveling to strange and foreign places and how that creates the perfect setting for crime novels. Then, make sure you're signed in and comment below for a chance to win a copy of the book! What better reading matter…
Despite their obvious limitations, trains make great settings for movies. Think of North by Northwest, where the wrongly charged and hunted Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) successfully hides in the upper of a Pullman berth, while the porter makes up Eva Marie Saint's berth; the cool blond helping him hide. Or Some Like It Hot, where Genevieve…
Dan Newman spent most of his life traveling and writing. Now, fortunately for us, some of those travels have made it to the page in Dan's first novel, The Clearing. Read about how Dan began writing, what books and authors inspired him, and how some of his travels made it into the book in this…
Echoes by Laura K. Curtis is the first romantic suspense in the Harp Security series, in which a travel writer's Caribbean trip to investigate her past collides with the disappearance of a resort owner who looks enough like her to be a sister (available March 17, 2015). A single photo of herself as an infant…
If not space, the stratosphere at least. A company founded by people with a “background in aerospace engineering and satellites” is now offering to release your beloved's ashes from 20 miles above the earth with a weather balloon, also to film it for your later memories. Here's Mesoloft's promo video: According to the Huffington Post:…
On a hot August day in 1935, Reverend Charles H. North of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma's Third Pentecostal Holiness Church drove his car downtown and parked at a spot in front of a new-fangled device called the Park-O-Meter. The Park-O-Meters had just been installed the month before and had created sort of a hub-bub around town…
I read the Agatha Christie's book version of 4:50 From Paddington way before I saw the TV-movie, directed by Martyn Friend. I was most likely in my late teens or early twenties when I read it. That was the time I went on a huge Agatha Christie binge. I read as many of her books…
A change of clothes really can make you feel like a new woman. According to the Toronto Sun: [During a guided tour's rest stop] One of the women on the bus left to change her clothes and freshen up. When she came back, her busmates didn't recognize her…The woman didn't recognize the description of herself,…
We’re intrigued by what we’re hearing about The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, a documentary that sounds like a classic whodunit in 1930s fashion—except for the fact that it really happened and more 80 years later questions remain about the “who” who done it. Instead of an English country house, or a boarding school,…
May is Get Caught Reading Month, an annual event sponsored by the Association of American Publishers to encourage Americans to pick up a book and read. (Like we need encouragement.) Naturally, the best way to “get caught reading” is to engage in PDR (public displays of reading), which is something we do all the time…
