Mystery Novels
Scary Reads? Not all of the mystery novels I have reviewed are about a place as creepy as Cora Harrison’s Burren of Ireland (♥)or Martin Cruz Smith’s Wolves Eat Dogs (♥♥♥♥). I’m wrapping up the two weeks of scary things and mystery novels with a list of some of the reader-preferred mysteries, with hearts to denote how fast they’ll [...]
Destination: Sweden TV Series: Wallander with Kenneth Branagh ( BBC and PBS) Guest Post by Melanie McMinn Melanie McMinn, an American ex-pat writer and artist living in New Zealand, actually takes time off from raising bees, creating creatures of felted wool, cooking, remodeling, and making all sorts of other things including a blog called [...]
Destination: Tucson, Arizona Event: Tucson Festival of Books, 2011 [See more photos on my Facebook page] The Tucson Festival of Books has grown rapidly in its three years. Organizers say there were 100,000 people there in March 2011, and I think that is true.
On April 29, Edgar awards for best mysteries published in 2009 will be announced. I am delighted that the publicist sent me four books of the six nominated in the mystery novel category to look over.
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Destination: Scotland Authors: Ian Rankin and Alexander McCall Smith Nope, we’re not talking Loch Ness Monster here. Some readers recommended some good mysteries for the traveler to read on the way to Scotland. The British Isles seem to produce enormous numbers of mystery writers. But although Agatha Christie may have been the mother of the [...]
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Likin’ the New Stuff at A Traveler’s Library
NEW COLLEAGUES AT THE LIBRARY I hope you are enjoying the new contributors to A Traveler’s Library as much as I am. You have now met five of the current six contributors who are bringing you new reasons to travel and new resources. Kerry talked about Nova Scotia Music on Monday; Jessie talked about Scottish [...]
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