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2019 Book Titles

March 2019: The Mystery of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
 April 2019: Caged (Agent Sayer Altair #1)by Ellison Cooper
 May 2019: The Frangipani Tree Mystery
June 2019: Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King
July 2019: The Widows of Malabar
August 2019: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
September 2019: The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem,

October 2019: Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told  Poso Wells

November 2019: The Word Is Murder Anthony Horowitz

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Mystery Book Lovers’ Club February 2019

Jen Sinclair Johnson January 18, 2019

After a lively discussion of PERFECT NANNY, I’m looking forward to the February meeting, the last at the usual meeting spot (for awhile anyway). Our list of upcoming titles follows, along with a few tidbits from industry news and local authors.

February 2019: Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

A psychological thriller about how a secret can bind two friends together forever…or tear them apart. Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane’s academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship. Until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them.

Literary Tidbits

Looking for new titles? The 2019 Left Coast Crime “Lefty” Award nominees are chosen by mystery fans and registered members of the Left Coast Crime convention. Click to find all the nominees, which include a familiar name, Lori Rader-Day’s Under a Dark Sky for best mystery, and another Chicago-area author, Tracy Clark, for Broken Places (Kensington Books). Congrats to the nominees, and readers who get to enjoy their work!

Serendipitously, our March 2019 author, Sophie Hannah, will also be the keynote speaker at the March 23 2091 Murder & Mayhem Chicago, a one-day conference geared to readers and librarians looking for new books and aspiring authors hoping to learn about craft and publishing careers. Student pricing available. It’s a great day for those who love the genre!

Love watching true crime? Check out this Vice list of the 10 best true crime documentaries on Netflix.

Our Book List:

March 2019: The Mystery of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) April 2019: Caged (Agent Sayer Altair #1) by Ellison Cooper
May 2019: The Frangipani Tree Mystery
June 2019: Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King
July 2019: The Widows of Malabar by Sujata Massey
August 2019: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
September 2019: The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem,
October 2019: Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told  by Poso Wells
November 2019: The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
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Mystery Lovers’ Book Club January 2019

Jen Sinclair Johnson January 4, 2019
Great meeting in December! Here’s information on our next title, and a few literary tidbits about authors we’ve read, local writers, and anything else that struck my fancy. Kareem Jabar and Sherlock Holmes anyone? 

 

January 2019: The Perfect Nanny by Leila slimani’s

When Myriam, a mother and brilliant French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work, she and her husband are forced to look for a caretaker for their two young children. They are thrilled to find Louise: the perfect nanny right from the start. Louise sings to the children, cleans the family’s beautiful apartment in Paris’s upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late whenever asked, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on each other, jealousy, resentment, and frustrations mount, shattering the idyllic tableau.

Upcoming selections:
February 2019: Give me Your Hand by Megan Abbott
March 2019: The Mystery of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) April 2019: Caged (Agent Sayer Altair #1) by Ellison Cooper
May 2019: The Frangipani Tree Mystery
June 2019: Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King
July 2019: The Widows of Malabar by Sujata Massey
August 2019: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
September 2019: The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem,
October 2019: Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told  by Poso Wells
November 2019: The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz

 

Literary Tidbits:
BBC Article: Northern Ireland: Generation Crime steps out of the Troubles, including an Interview with Ian McKinty, author of our selection, Gun Street Girl.
Anthony Horowitz writes “I had enormous fun writing The Word is Murder and I’m already half-way through the sequel, Another Word for Murder.” Sounds like perfect timing if you need a quick follow-up after we finish Word in November!Read THE DETECTIVE STORY AS META-FICTION, Anthony Horowitz on Centuries of Self-Referential Literature in Crime Reads.
While you’re on the Crime Reads site, check out KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR AND THE
EVOLVING SHERLOCK CANON. Because where else can you find Kareem and Sherlock together?
Gillian Flynn reviewed our March 2019 selection: Sophie Hannah’s A MYSTERY OF THREE QUARTERS in Goodreads:
“We Agatha Christie fans read her stories — and particularly her Poirot novels — because the mysteries are invariably equal parts charming and ingenious, dark and quirky and utterly engaging. Sophie Hannah had a massive challenge in reviving the beloved Poirot, and she met it with heart and no small amount of little grey cells. I was thrilled to see the Belgian detective in such very, very good hands. Reading The Monogram Murders was like returning to a favorite room of a long-lost home.”
Finally, I saw this podcast list for those who love mysteries, thrillers, and true crime. I know our members have great podcasts they recommend, so send me your favorites and I’ll post them next time!
Happy Reading!
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Mystery Lovers’ Book Club December 2018

Jen Sinclair Johnson November 21, 2018

Our next reading list is up, starting with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon. It’s quick story and a great read — perfect during the busy holiday season. Thanks to everyone who submitted stories and talked about titles for an interesting list for the next year.

Serendipitously, our March 2019 author, Sophie Hannah, will also be the keynote speaker at the March 23 2091 Murder & Mayhem Chicago, a one-day conference geared to readers and librarians looking for new books and aspiring authors hoping to learn about craft and publishing careers. It’s only $50 for a ticket (or $60 for a ticket and tee-shirt) until December 31, after which the price increases. Student pricing available. It’s a great day for those who love the genre!

Happy Reading!

December 2018: 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon -Time Paperback – May 18, 2004
“A bestselling modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor’s dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.” Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

January 2019: The Perfect Nanny by Leila slimani’s

When Myriam, a mother and brilliant French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work, she and her husband are forced to look for a caretaker for their two young children. They are thrilled to find Louise: the perfect nanny right from the start. Louise sings to the children, cleans the family’s beautiful apartment in Paris’s upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late whenever asked, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on each other, jealousy, resentment, and frustrations mount, shattering the idyllic tableau.

February 2019: Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

A mesmerizing psychological thriller about how a secret can bind two friends together forever…or tear them apart.Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane’s academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship. Until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them.

March 2019: The Mystery of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)

Hercule Poirot returns home after an agreeable luncheon to find an angry woman waiting to berate him outside his front door. Her name is Sylvia Rule, and she demands to know why Poirot has accused her of the murder of Barnabas Pandy, a man she has neither heard of nor ever met. She is furious to be so accused, and deeply shocked. Poirot is equally shocked, because he too has never heard of any Barnabas Pandy, and he certainly did not send the letter in question. He cannot convince Sylvia Rule of his innocence, however, and she marches away in a rage.

Poirot wonders how many more letters of this sort have been sent in his name. Who sent them, and why? More importantly, who is Barnabas Pandy, is he dead, and, if so, was he murdered? And can Poirot find out the answers without putting more lives in danger?

April 2019: Caged (Agent Sayer Altair #1) by Ellison Cooper

FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair hunts for evil in the deepest recesses of the human mind. Still reeling from the death of her fiance, she wants nothing more than to focus on her research into the brains of serial killers.

May 2019: The Frangipani Tree Mystery isn’t your grandmother’s sedate English cozy whodunnit. That’s because Yu, best known for a modern-day Singapore-based mystery series featuring a restauranteur named Aunty Lee, has her eye on more than murder. You could say Yu is a woke Agatha Christie. She’s also a remarkable talent with a vivid sense of time, place, and character. She puts her skills to use to conjure a captivating Singapore where dramatically different cultures blend, unite and divide.

June 2019: Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Devil in the Grove, the gripping true story of a small town with a big secret. In December 1957, the wife of a Florida citrus baron is raped in her home while her husband is away. She claims a “husky Negro” did it, and the sheriff, the infamous racist Willis McCall, does not hesitate to round up a herd of suspects.

July 2019: The Widows of Malabar Hill Sujata Massey (Soho Crime) Set in India in 1921, this outstanding series launch introduces Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s first female solicitor, whose efforts to assist three widows in an estate case enmeshes her in a murder investigation. Thoughtful characterizations, especially of the capable, fiercely independent lead, bode well for future installments

August 2019: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead

Verticality, architectural and social, is the lofty idea at the heart of Colson Whitehead’s first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise city that combines 21st-century engineering feats with 19th-century pork-barrel politics. Elevators are the technological expression of the vertical ideal, and Lila Mae Watson, the city’s first black female elevator inspector, is its embattled token of upward mobility.

September 2019: The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem,

Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer in the desert outside of Los Angeles. She’s on a quest to find her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hears that Heist is preternaturally good at finding people who don’t want to be found…

October 2019: Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told  Poso Wells

When journalist Patrick Bracken returns to Gohen, the Irish village where he was born, he knows the eyes of the townspeople are on him. He has come home to investigate two deaths that happened decades earlier when he was a child, deaths that were ruled accidental. But Patrick knows—and believes the whole town knows—they were murders. He knows because he and his best friend, Mikey Lamb, were witnesses.

November 2019: The Word Is Murder Anthony Horowitz (Harper)mIn bestseller Horowitz’s metafictional crime novel, Horowitz himself joins forces with Daniel Hawthorne, a former detective inspector, in trying to solve the case of a well-to-do woman who scheduled her own funeral just hours before she was murdered in her London home. The author nicely balances deduction and wit in this tour de force.

 

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Mystery Lovers’ Book Club November 2018

Jen Sinclair Johnson November 6, 2018

Is everyone making their (book) list and checking it twice? Good! We won’t be discussing a novel this month, instead we’ll be reviewing your suggestions to winnow them down to a half-dozen (or so) titles. Also, starting in March 2019, I won’t be able to host for awhile, so we’ll also talk about the direction we’d like to take the club. Join us! Don’t miss out on the chance to advocate for YOUR favorite reads.

In the meantime, here’s what I’ve received so far in (no particular order).

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon -Time Paperback – May 18, 2004
“A bestselling modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor’s dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.” Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

The Frangipani Tree Mystery isn’t your grandmother’s sedate English cozy whodunnit. That’s because Yu, best known for a modern-day Singapore-based mystery series featuring a restauranteur named Aunty Lee, has her eye on more than murder. You could say Yu is a woke Agatha Christie. She’s also a remarkable talent with a vivid sense of time, place, and character. She puts her skills to use to conjure a captivating Singapore where dramatically different cultures blend, unite and divide.

The Word Is Murder Anthony Horowitz (Harper)mIn bestseller Horowitz’s metafictional crime novel, Horowitz himself joins forces with Daniel Hawthorne, a former detective inspector, in trying to solve the case of a well-to-do woman who scheduled her own funeral just hours before she was murdered in her London home. The author nicely balances deduction and wit in this tour de force.

The 8 Mansion Murders Takemaru Abiko, trans. from the Japanese by Ho-Ling Wong (Locked Room International) Insp. Kyozo Hayami, of the Tokyo Metropolitan PD, has to figure out how a construction company executive was killed by a crossbow bolt in the unusual figure eight–shaped house that he shared with his parents and two siblings. Abiko combines laugh-out-loud humor with an ingenious murder plot in this extremely clever impossible crime novel.

The Widows of Malabar Hill Sujata Massey (Soho Crime) Set in India in 1921, this outstanding series launch introduces Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s first female solicitor, whose efforts to assist three widows in an estate case enmeshes her in a murder investigation. Thoughtful characterizations, especially of the capable, fiercely independent lead, bode well for future installments

A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjce.  Set in Calcutta 1919 this is a historical crime novel.  I thought it would be interesting since it has much background info on Calcutta during that time period.

Murder in Mayfair by D.M. Quincy.  THis is the first of a series again a historical novel.  Atlas Catesby purchases a wife from a man who has her on the auction block.  Soon the husband is murdered and the lady in question is accused.  Atlas must find who actually killed the man.

The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey.  First in a series. Set in London, Alan Grant the inspector must find the killer of a man who was killed in a crowd waiting for the theatre.

The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem,

Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer in the desert outside of Los Angeles. She’s on a quest to find her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hears that Heist is preternaturally good at finding people who don’t want to be found…

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

her best selling novel and described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they’re unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. And only the dead are above suspicion.

The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead

Verticality, architectural and social, is the lofty idea at the heart of Colson Whitehead’s first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise city that combines 21st-century engineering feats with 19th-century pork-barrel politics. Elevators are the technological expression of the vertical ideal, and Lila Mae Watson, the city’s first black female elevator inspector, is its embattled token of upward mobility.

Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Devil in the Grove, the gripping true story of a small town with a big secret. In December 1957, the wife of a Florida citrus baron is raped in her home while her husband is away. She claims a “husky Negro” did it, and the sheriff, the infamous racist Willis McCall, does not hesitate to round up a herd of suspects.

The Perfect Nanny by Leila slimani’s

When Myriam, a mother and brilliant French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work, she and her husband are forced to look for a caretaker for their two young children. They are thrilled to find Louise: the perfect nanny right from the start. Louise sings to the children, cleans the family’s beautiful apartment in Paris’s upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late whenever asked, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on each other, jealousy, resentment, and frustrations mount, shattering the idyllic tableau.

Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told  Poso Wells

When journalist Patrick Bracken returns to Gohen, the Irish village where he was born, he knows the eyes of the townspeople are on him. He has come home to investigate two deaths that happened decades earlier when he was a child, deaths that were ruled accidental. But Patrick knows—and believes the whole town knows—they were murders. He knows because he and his best friend, Mikey Lamb, were witnesses.

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo’s stay is nothing but pleasant…But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened…

Black Water Rising by Attica Locke

Writing in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke, a powerful new voice in American fiction, delivers a brilliant debut thriller that readers will not soon forget. Jay Porter is hardly the lawyer he set out to be. His most promising client is a low-rent call girl and he runs his fledgling law practice out of a dingy strip mall. But he’s long since made peace with not living the American Dream and carefully tucked away his darkest sins: the guns, the FBI file, the trial that nearly destroyed him.

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

A mesmerizing psychological thriller about how a secret can bind two friends together forever…or tear them apart.Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane’s academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship. Until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them.

Not a Sound by Heather Gudenkauf

When a tragic accident leaves nurse Amelia Winn deaf, she spirals into a depression that ultimately causes her to lose everything that matters–her job, her husband, David, and her stepdaughter, Nora. Now, two years later and with the help of her hearing dog, Stitch, she is finally getting back on her feet. But when she discovers the body of a fellow nurse in the dense bus ..

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire.

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others…but the more Susan reads, the more she’s convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder.

Weeping Waters marks the beginning of a great new series with a striking new setting, a strong ensemble cast of characters and suspenseful storylines.

Inspector Albertus Beeslaar is a traumatized cop who has abandoned tough city policing and a broken relationship in Johannesburg for a backwater post on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. But his dream of rural peace is soon shattered by the repeated attacks of a brutally efficient crime syndicate, as he struggles to train and connect with rookie local cops, Ghaap and Pyl, who resent his brusqueness and his old-school ways.

Winner of the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize, ATKV Literature Prize, and twice winner of the M-Net Literature Awards “The Afrikaans Stieg Larsson.”—Rooi Rose (South Africa)

Caged (Agent Sayer Altair #1) by Ellison Cooper

FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair hunts for evil in the deepest recesses of the human mind. Still reeling from the death of her fiance, she wants nothing more than to focus on her research into the brains of serial killers.

 

 

 

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Mystery Lovers’ Book Club October

Jen Sinclair Johnson September 11, 2018

Thanks to everyone who came to talk about HER LAST DAY. Our next meeting is October 18th at 7 pm, when we’ll discuss HIMSELF by Jess Kid. Here’s the blurb:

Abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant in 1950, Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had simply given him up. But when he receives an anonymous note suggesting that foul play may have led to her disappearance, he sees only one option: to return to the rural Irish village where he was born and find out what really happened twenty-six years earlier. In HIMSELF, Jess Kidd delivers a black-humored mystery, a debut novel populated with colorful characters, a simmering blend of the natural and the supernatural, and in homage to her roots, a generous dose of quintessentially Irish humor.

Don’t forget to pull your suggestions together for our November 15 meeting when we’ll talk about our next book list! Looking for ideas? Check out Lori Rader-Day’s suggestions (linked below) for books ALL set in the Midwest.

Literary Tidbits 

Lori-Rader Day 

THE DAY I DIED, our July 2017 read (right?) won the Anthony Award for the Best Paperback Original in September 2018 at the World Crime Fiction convention known as Bouchercon (named for famed writer/editor/critic Anthony Boucher). Here’s a  nice piece by Lori about crime stories and the Midwest.

Sophie Hannah will be at (the fictional kind of) Murder & Mayhem in Chicago March 2018!  

I think I’d mentioned that Sophie Hannah had been authorized by the Agatha Christie estate to continue the Hercule Proirot. *Gasps!* Brave lady in any case. As it turns out, I just found out that Hannah is going to be the featured author at the Murder & Mayhem conference in March in Chicago. According to Lori Rader-Day:  “If you haven’t seen Sophie speak, you are in for a treat. She’s so funny!” Lori’s a hoot, so if she says she’s funny, she must be. 

Tana French

In French’s IN THE WOODS, we all wondered what happened to the vanished children. While this article doesn’t reveal what happened, she does say why what actually happened to a pair of vanished children remains a mystery — because she didn’t think her detective was equipped to face the truth! Here’s the full article, which has her insights into Red Herrings, which is interesting from a reader and writer perspective, I think.

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Mystery Lovers’ Book Club September 2018

Jen Sinclair Johnson August 20, 2018

I enjoyed discussing TRIPTYCH , and how Slaughter revealed the ethnicity of the characters over time. It got me thinking that I’d like to explore more, and that it’s time to start compiling suggestions for our next list! Jot notes now and send them to me anytime between now and November 15 when we’ll vote on our next book list. We’ll discuss the last title from our current selections on October 18; HIMSELF by Jess Kid.

In the meantime, I have exciting news for our September 20th meeting, where we’ll have a special guest from the Delray Beach Public Library! It’ll also be the weekend after I have a meet-up with a bunch of story nerds.  It’s always hard to see summer go, but so much to look forward to.

Until then…Here’s more about our September selection:

In this page-turner of a thriller by bestselling author T.R. Ragan, unlikely partners PI Jessie Cole and crime reporter Ben Morrison search for clues to a mystery buried in their own pasts—only to discover that sometimes the truth is better off buried.

 Next Month: October 18, 2018 Himself by Jess Kid

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Mystery Lovers’ Book Club August 2018

Jen Sinclair Johnson August 8, 2018

Whew! Whatever happened to the summer doldrums? Remember when that was a thing? No doldrums here but trying to keep up with family, writing, and READING while enjoying our lovely season. With that in mind, I’ll try holding August book club on my patio but if it’s too wet or buggy we can always head inside. Are you ready? Our August book selection is TRIPTYCH by Karin Slaughter. We’ve got two more books on our reading list (below), so lets start thinking about our next titles. Maybe some below will provide inspiration? In any case, happy reading, and I hope you enjoy these bookie tidbits below.

September 20, 2018: Her Last Day by T. R. Ragan

October 18, 2018: Himself by Jess Kid

Hercule Poirot is back! Sophie Hannah is continuing Agatha Christie’s famous detective series, and I hear that the first, MYSTERY OF THREE QUARTERS is great. This sounds like it could generate some fun discussion at an upcoming meeting.

Rita Mae Brown Releases Latest Mystery

I love the premise of Rita Mae’s newest, which might sound familiar to anyone whose listened to me talk about tying a contemporary mystery into local history. Brown said there’s a new book in her “Sister Jane” series that features the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and a “Sneaky Pie” mystery featuring the National Beagle Club, which is housed at a spectacular (and real) historic property in western Loudoun County. I’m a fangirl of Rita Mae for sure — check out the article to find out why (at least partially).

Local Literary Tidbits:

Terence Faherty’s novel “Play a Cold Hand” and Kristen Lepionka’s “The Last Place You Look” are nominees for Shamus Awards from the Private Eye Writers of America.

Lori Rader-Day – UNDER A DARK SKY (William Morrow) launched August 7, and she’s out on the road promoting it. Her website is packed with events, including a couple of events with Willian Kent Krueger below.

William Kent Krueger – DESOLATION MOUNTAIN (Atria) releases in August, too. From his website: In an early review, Publishers Weekly called it “haunting… Krueger skillfully combines the otherworldly setting of the Minnesota wilds with Native American lore to create a winning mystery with more than a few surprises.

Julia Buckley also is releasing A DARK & TWISTING PATH.

Her next novel (VIRTUAL SABOTAGE, coming Oct. 23) will be offered as an ARC in a drawing entered by e-mailing JGHyzy@gmail.com, putting “VS Giveaway” as the subject, and telling her your favorite story or stories (books, movies, TV shows, etc.) that feature an element of science fiction. Then sign up for her newsletter at http://bit.ly/2Me92tk and check your e-mail to see who won.

VIRTUAL SABOTAGE is not about the gadgets and gizmos that power its Science Fiction setting. Rather, it’s about the characters—some you’ll love, some you’ll hate—and how they interact with one another in a society addicted to virtual reality.

Good luck!

 

 

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