Event: Sisters in Crime Holiday Gathering, Saturday, Dec. 7
On Saturday, December 7, ten mystery writers from the Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters in Crime will be appearing at the […]
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Review: William Boyd’s Solo in the Washington Post
Since my teenage years, I’ve been an avid James Bond fan—following both the novels and the films—and while the big-screen
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Event: Waterbear Reading Series, Saturday, October 26 at One More Page Books
I’m thrilled to be taking part in the October edition of the Waterbear Reading Series at One More Page Books
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Essay: An Appreciation of Margaret Maron in Mystery Scene
I’ve been following Margaret Maron’s career for more than twenty years now, helping to document many of the highpoints for
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Catching Up On My Reading….
Over the last week or so, I’ve been catching up on recent issues of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, taking some
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New Fiction: “Ithaca 37” in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
I’m thrilled to have had two stories appearing in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine this year—the second of which has just
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Macavity Award Nomination: “When Duty Calls”
My story “When Duty Calls” has been very good to me—as have the members and supporters of Mystery Readers International
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Interview at Literary Mama
Thanks so much to the good folks at Literary Mama (and to Colleen Kearney Rich, specifically) for including me as
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Story A Day: “Dead on Her Feet” by Cornell Woolrich
Another story from the Cornell Woolrich collection I started yesterday—this one more of a straight whodunit, but with some grisly
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Story A Day: “The Night Reveals” by Cornell Woolrich
Just got in the mail the Centipede Press collection Speak to Me of Death: The Collected Short Fiction of Cornell
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Story A Day: “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client”
In addition to reading the complete stories of Stanley Ellin, Tara and I have also been working out way—aloud—through the
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Story A Day: “Jhonathan and the Witchs” by Stephen King
Writer and editor Paul Mandelbaum gathered the childhood writings of 22 distinguished authors—including Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, Michael Crichton, Allan