Event: CityLit Festival, Baltimore
I’m so pleased to have been invited to participate in the 10th annual CityLit Festival up in Baltimore—and on such […]
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Derringer Award Win (Long Story) & Spinetingler Award Nomination
I’m honored, awed, and humbled to have won a third Derringer Award from the Short Mystery Fiction Society—this year in
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Review: Harlan Coben’s Six Years in the Washington Post
As I write in my Washington Post review of the new novel Six Years, Harlan Coben has long since established himself
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Upcoming Event: Short Story Panel, Saturday, March 30
I’m very pleased to have been invited to participate in a short story panel, “The Long and Short of the
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Derringer Award Finalist: “When Duty Calls” from Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder
I’m so pleased that my story “When Duty Calls,” recently nominated for an Agatha Award, has also been named a
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Agatha Award Nomination: “When Duty Calls” from Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder
I’m thrilled that my story “When Duty Calls,” from the anthology Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder (Wildside Press), has
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Short Story: “The Care and Feeding of Houseplants” in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
Ellery Queen has just published the first of two of my stories scheduled for 2013. “The Care and Feeding of
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Review: Emily Winslow’s “The Start of Everything” in the Washington Post
An American author living in Cambridge, England, Emily Winslow has now published two mysteries set in her new home. The
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Review: Dashiell Hammett’s Return of the Thin Man in the Washington Post
I’ve long been a big fan of Dashiell Hammett‘s stories and novels (my favorite is his first book, Red Harvest),
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Upcoming Event: Mystery Author Extravaganza
The December meeting of Sisters in Crime’s Chesapeake Chapter gathers 16 local authors for a meet-and-greet and book signing at
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Book Launch: Tara Laskowski, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons
On Saturday, October 27, at 5 p.m., Tara Laskowski (my wife!) will celebrate the publication of her first book, the
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Review: B.A. Shapiro’s The Art Forger in The Washington Post
Having worked for many years at an art museum myself, I was very excited about the opportunity to review B.A.