In my posting the other day, In Reference to Writing, I mentioned the authors of a new book on private investigation (How to Write Like a Dick), and an excerpt they'd posted about what writers often get wrong when writing PIs. Lo and behold, Jungle Red Writers hosted Steve Kerry Brown yesterday on their blog talking about the same subject. Steve is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating and has been in the biz for 40+ years.
RT Book Reviews has an online presence to complement their print publication, and each month they hand out the RT Seal of Excellence award to one book. For the month of July, that book happens to be You're Next by Gregg Hurwitz. One editor called it "chilling, heart stopping, breathtaking, horrifically violent and surprisingly tender at times…."
There's a whodunit mystery afoot in Scotland, and it's not a book by bestselling Scottish author Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series. Someone has been placing artwork based on Rankin's novels around Edinburgh at places such as the Scottish Poetry Library and National Library of Scotland. There's a shortlist of suspects, but this isn't necessarily one perpetrator that many people want to see get caught.
Laura Benedict created a list of "10 Signs You're a Crime Fan" for the Criminal Element blog. Do any of them sound familiar?
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