The annual Fall for the Book festival at George Mason University in Virginia announced the lineup for this year's event, including "an evening of mystery (and maybe mayhem)" on Tuesday, September 29. A headline event with Megan Abbott kicks off the evening, followed by a panel moderated by award-winning author Art Taylor with crime authors Sherry Harris, Josh Pachter, B.K. Stevens, and LynDee Walker.
The Chicago Tribune profiled the American Bar Association's new publishing venture, Ankerwycke. Named for the tree that sheltered the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215, the new imprint features law-themed true crime and crime fiction, including classics like Perry Mason re-releases to new works such as a novel by a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Future, the company behind Total Film, SFX and GamesRadar+, is launching the quarterly magazine Crime Scene. The UK-based publication will cover TV crime drama, as well as novels from authors such as Ian Rankin and James Ellroy and offer up opinion, analysis, previews, and in-depth articles.
Brown’s Hotel in London will be offering an Agatha Christie Afternoon Tea during September, which is appropriate since the author was a regular hotel guest and her novel At Bertram's Hotel was based on Brown's. The themed tea, which is offered in celebration of Christie's 125th anniversary, will feature a variety of teas and cakes including Miss Marple’s orange and poppy seed cake, which appears in At Bertram’s Hotel; black coffee tiramisu, which makes reference to Miss Marple’s love of coffee cake; clock-face macaroons, referencing Christie’s novel Rosemary Clocks; and plain and fruit scones served with clotted cream, strawberry jam and honey – an all-time favorite of Miss Marple. (HT to Good Housekeeping UK.)
The Sunday Post spoke to ten authors will be appearing at the upcoming Bloody Scotland festival to ask them about their writing inspirations and to name their favorite authors and the stories that scare them.
If you're heading to the Shetland area of the UK, you can read mystery author Ann Cleeves' take why the islands offers the perfect inspiration for crime fiction (for her award-winning series of novels and a hit BBC TV Series starring Douglas Henshall) and her list of "top five things to do in Shetland."
Maureen Corrigan penned an essay for The Washington Post, about how female crime writers handle aging in their series' charaters, titled "In mysteries, does the trail grow cold when the detective grows old?"
An ancient real-life mystery may have been solved: archaeologists in Egypt believe they have found the long-missing tomb of Nefertiti hidden in plain sight - in the tomb of Tutankhamun.
The new crime poem over at the 5-2 this week is "Mortal Terror" by Sarah Stockton.
The Q&A roundup includes Steve Hockensmith, who stopped by Ominimystery News to interview himself about his second mystery co-written with tarot expert Lisa Falco; Writers Who Kill snared Susan Froetschel about her Afghanistan-set novel Fear of Beauty; Lisa Unger chatted with the Do Some Damage blog's Alex Segura about her novel Crazy Love You; the Mystery People grilled Jenny Milchman about her latest suspense novel, As Night Falls; and EuroCrime welcomes Lin Anderson, who was just shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year for Paths of the Dead.
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