Mystery Novel
Notice: Your odds of winning keep improving as people who have won a daily prize are eliminated from the drawing. Besides, an entry today might win you a terrific mystery book AND an chance at the Grand Prize. Destination: Seville, Spain Book: The Blind Man of Seville by Robert Wilson (2003) How can such a [...]
Destination: Ireland Book: My Lady Judge: A Mystery of Medieval Ireland by Cora Harrison (2007) The Burren of Ireland fascinated me when we traveled through County Clare. Long, flat tables of gray stone stretch toward the sea. Cracks and ridges and deep fissures make walking across the limestone ground an adventure. Lovely little wild flowers [...]
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NOTE: Today launches two weeks of mystery novels and other scary things–leading up to Halloween. Don’t be afraid –plunge right in and enjoy the murder and mayhem! And remember, there are still a few books to give away in the Giant 25-Book Giveaway. So subscribe, tell me in a comment you have subscribed, tweet a [...]
Destination: England Book: Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (2003) It’s a cozy, or is it? A mystery novel that sidesteps blood and merciless beatings for a more measured and intellectual approach to solving crimes is called a cozy. Maisie Dobbs, the first in a series of (so far) seven novels written by Jacqueline Winspear, introduces [...]
Destination: Montreal area, Canada Book: A Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny (NEW 8/30/2011) from St. Martin’s Press and Macmillan Audio Thank you, Macmillan Audio, for sending me on CD just in time for my road trip to Santa Fe. A mystery is just the thing for our road [...]
Destination: Paris Book: Murder in the Latin Quarter(2009) by Cara Black You can win this book by leaving a comment below (see end of post). I often think of Alfred Hitchcok and the MacGuffin when I read a mystery. To Hitchcok, the core of a mystery was the MacGuffin, a physical object that eludes the [...]
The Great American Road Trip Destination: South Carolina Book: Bull’s Island by Dorothea Benton Frank With So What, Ya’ll? Dorothea Benton Frank does the South Carolina Cliché A guest post by Margo Millure of The Travel Belles
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The best mystery novel winners were announced last night. My pick for first, Jo Nesbo’s Nemesis did not make it. (What do I know? But I still am a great fan!) I will be reviewing the novel chosen as Best Mystery Novel of 2010, John Hart‘s The Last Child, on June 2 when the Great [...]
