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Fresh Meat: One Way or Another by Elizabeth Adler

By Doreen Sheridan

July 1, 2015

One Way or Another by Elizabeth Adler is a thriller that opens aboard a luxury yacht where a woman is thrown into the ocean in a clear case of attempted murder (available July 7, 2015). In Elizabeth Adler’s latest thriller, a young woman named Angie is bludgeoned aboard a luxury yacht, thrown overboard, and left…

The Job, by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg, is the third globetrotting book in the Fox and O'Hare series.

Fresh Meat: The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

By Susan Amper

November 17, 2014

The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg is the third globetrotting mystery in the Fox and O'Hare sereis featuring the unlikely pair of FBI Agent Kate O'Hare and professional thief Nick Fox (available November 18, 2014). This is the third in the series by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg, and it could be the second or the…

What’s in Your Museum?

By Lance Charnes

March 6, 2013

“95 percent of all antiquities in the U.S. have been smuggled.” —John Cooney, former curator of ancient art, Cleveland Museum of Art Our story begins with a pot and a pig. In 1970, an Italian man working on a canal near Naples discovered a remarkable piece of crockery: a 27-inch-tall, double-handled chalice or krater, black…

Fresh Meat: Baksheesh by Esmahan Aykol

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

February 28, 2013

Baksheesh by Esmahan Aykol is the second book in the contemporary mystery series featuring Istanbul bookseller Kati Hirschel (available March 5, 2013). Kati Hirschel tells a great story. She’s funny, smart, observant, and self-effacing. The fact that she’s the proprietor of Istanbul’s only bookstore devoted exclusively to crime and mystery fiction just adds to her…

Monty Python’s Bring Out Your Dead skit

Turkish Morgue Prepared for the Undead

By Crime HQ

October 6, 2011

It sounds like a Monty Python skit, but it’s not. According to Reuters, officials in the rural city of Malatya, Turkey, have upgraded their morgue due to a longstanding local fear of being buried alive. The bells and whistles now include motion sensors and alarms, door handles inside the refrigerator compartments, and triggers that pop…

The Janissary Tree: Exclusive Excerpt

By Jason Goodwin

April 23, 2011

The Janissary Tree is the first book in Jason Goodwin’s “Yashim” series. Read n extended excerpt of Chapters 1-7! It is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the Sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind them?…

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