The end of the year "best" lists keep on coming. Kirkus shared the thirteen books it has chosen for "Best mystery and thrillers of 2018" and Strand Magazine compiled its list of twenty "best" books.
Meanwhile, the Goodreads Readers Choice Awards has narrowed it longlists down to finalists including ten Mystery/Thriller titles. Voting continues through November 26 with winners announced on December 4.
Janet Rudolph has updated her annual list of Thanksgiving-themed mysteries over at the Mystery Fanfare blog.
The Mystery Lovers Kitchen crew have several Thanksgiving recipes for you, including dressing, brussels sprouts with bacon, pumpkin crisp streusel, cranberry pie, and more.
The holiday issue of Mystery Scene Magazine is out, with a profile of M.C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin mystery series and the UK television show based on the novels with Ashley Jensen played Agatha. Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke talk about their collaboration and the ins and outs of co-writing; Oline H. Cogdill catches up with Lou Berney to chat about his new book November Road, the follow-on to his Edgar Award-winning The Long and Faraway Gone; Craig Sisterson talks with Mindy Mejia, a rising star who has a real talent for evoking rural life in her home state of Minnesota; Kevin Burton Smith has scoured the retail landscape again to gather a bundle of holiday gifts for mystery lovers; plus more news and reviews.
Kings River Life has two Thanksgiving mystery short stories online for your reading pleasure, one by Gail Farrelly titled "Ya Never Know: A Thanksgiving Tale," and the other titled "Justice For Elijah: A Thanksgiving Mystery Short Story" by Earl Staggs.
Switchblade: Stiletto Heeled, the all female issue, is now available on Kindle. It's the first publication in the new Switchblade addition to their publishing lineup, with Lisa Douglass, the newest member of the editorial team, serving as Managing Editor.
The Washington Post's Michael Dirda took an affectionate look at the pleasures of classic whodunnits from the Golden Era, stilted dialogue, ludicrous plots, and all.
The Age profiled some of Australia's "deadliest female writers."
Something not to be thankful for: book banning is alive and well in Kuwait. The Information ministry blacklist said that the Kuwait international literary festival had banned 948 books including Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. The information ministry has blacklisted more than 4,000 books over the past five years, including Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
The Wall Street Journal has gotten into the gift-giving spirit early with some recommendations of collections of 1920s crime fiction, female-detective stories and more.
What do you get for the crime fiction lover who has everything? Look no further than the album "Just the Clothes on My Back" by the American roots rock band Naked Blue, which is full of tracks about Lee Child’s wide-roaming ex-forces crime buster Jack Reacher.
For those of you in the U.S. who are planning on sitting around watching TV while digesting that huge Thanksgiving dinner, there are several marathons to choose from the entire weekend, including the NCIS series (all three), Forensic Files, Criminal Minds, and CSI, among many, many more.
The latest poem at the 5-2 crime poetry weekly is "The Man Who Stole Poetry" by Anne Graue.
In the Q&A roundup John Sanford is the latest "By the Book" interview for the New York Times; and the Mystery People's Scott Butkis interviewed Alafair Burke, who has joined forces again with Mary Higgins Clark for a new book in their Under Suspicion series, You Don’t Own Me.
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