The Mystery Writers of American has named Sara Paretsky as the 2011 Grand Master, a title MWA created to honor the pinnacle of achievement in mystery writing, important contributions to the genre, and a body of work that is both significant and of consistent high quality. The MWA also handed out the 2011 Raven Award, for outstanding achievement in the mystery field outside the realm of creative writing, to the bookstores Once Upon a Crime, in Minneapolis, MN, and Centuries & Sleuths in Chicago, IL.
The Washington Academy of Sciences and the bookstore Mystery Loves Company are sponsoring the 2nd Annual Science is Murder Event featuring authors Louis Bayard, Dana Cameron, Ellen Crosby, Lawrence Goldstone in a reception, panel and book-signing at the Washington Academy of Sciences, 1200 New York Avenue, Washington, D.C., December 21st form 6:30pm to 9:00pm.
Maxim Jakubowski, author, editor, reviewer, and former proprietor of the UK's Mystery One Bookshop, named his top 10 crime fiction locations in a article for The Guardian. Number 10 starts off the list with New York in Lawrence Block's Small Town and works its way up to...(you'll have to read the article!). This is a follow-up to the 2010 anthology of essays Jakubowski edited, Following the Detectives: Real Locations in Crime Fiction, with contributions including many expert crime fiction bloggers such as Declan Burke, Oline Cogdill, Sarah Weinman, Martin Edwards, J. Kingston Pierce, and Peter Rozovsky, who has a write-up of the book.
If you're a fan of the growing field of speculative fiction, Lisa Seddon offers up some mystery books that cross over into that domain, as well as some links for more information, if you're new to the genre.
As the publishing industry struggles with the influence of e-books, Publishers Weekly reports that declines in the sales of print books haven't been offset by the explosive rise in the sales of digital books.
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November 18, 2010
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Scott Drayco Novel #8: In a historic Victorian mansion used as a movie set, Drayco investigates a decades-old murder case that brings him face to face with deadly secrets of the past and a killer determined to keep the truth buried.
Scott Drayco Novel #7: How would you solve your own kidnapping? And what if the reason behind it was even stranger than you could ever imagine?
Scott Drayco Novel #6: Some secrets refuse to stay buried while others threaten to bury you ... permanently.
Scott Drayco Novel #5: A song linked to suicides may have taken another victim. Or was it a cleverly disguised murder?
Scott Drayco Novel #4: When crime consultant Scott Drayco’s long-AWOL mother returns and is charged with murder, he’s plunged into a world of secrets, lies, and cons.
Scott Drayco Novel #3: Drayco reunites with his estranged FBI partner to protect the partner's daughter from a serial killer who leaves musical puzzles as a calling card.
Scott Drayco Novel #2: A mysterious attack on a young disabled girl lures Drayco back to Cape Unity and into a sea of secrets and lies.
Scott Drayco Novel #1: A body found in a rundown Opera House with a "G" carved on his chest lures a former FBI agent into a web of music, madness and murder.
Eight Scott Drayco stories.
A con woman vows to avenge her grandmother's death but must outsmart a handsome detective plus the efforts of her nemesis to silence her...forever.
Detective Adam Dutton once again teams up with con woman Beverly Laborde to find a killer. But is it too late for an innocent man...and for them?
Detective Adam Dutton and con woman Beverly battle arson, fraud, and a new NAL villain, even as they fight the smoldering attraction between them.
Thanks belatedly for mentioning Following the Detectives. Also belatedly, Happy Thanksgiving.
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Posted by: Peter | November 27, 2010 at 10:25 PM