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New Mystery, Suspense and Thrillers, and Horror
2010 is a great year for mysteries! Several well-known and beloved mystery writers are publishing new series titles: Barbara Cleverly (Joe Sandilands), Frank Tallis (Max Liebermann), Donna Leon...
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Too good to miss: Josephine Tey
I recently discovered classic mystery author Josephine Tey. A patron and a colleague had told me about her years ago, and I filed the name away until Nancy Pearl mentioned Tey as well. And like many...
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Crime: Imagining Jack the Ripper
Whitechapel, London, 1888 Would Sherlock Holmes identify Jack the Ripper using his astute powers of deduction? Arthur Conan Doyle never put Holmes on the Whitechapel set, but Lyndsay Faye pits the...
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A Dream of Summer
A Dream of Summer, because we are all dreaming of summer… Here we are in the heady rush of summer, where busy summer plans are making themselves felt regardless of the on-again, off-again weather. In...
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Murder at the Olympic Games
I foolishly tried to resist getting caught up in the fervor, but it’s no use: once again my attention has been totally dominated by the Olympic Games. Such is the case for many of our patrons if the...
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Crime: Beneath the Antimacassars
I like a dark, creepy Victorian crime novel — the real doozies – stories so strange and bizarre, nobody’s thought of them yet. The Thing about Thugs by Tabish Khair is a doozy. The Victorian mystery as...
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Richard III, part deux: Return of the Return of the King!
My friends and colleagues will tell you I’m a bit of a bone nut – osteophile? – witness the lifelike replica of a Roman Gladiator’s skull that grins on my desk. Plus I’m a Shakespeare fan, so I was...
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Nightstand Reads: Confessions of a re-reader
Today’s guest blogger is mystery author Bernadette Pajer, who shares what she’s been reading — and rereading. I confess. I’m a rereader. Although my to-be-read pile is a teetering stack of intriguing...
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