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Läckberg’s Ghostwriting DisputeRumors have circulated for at least the last couple of years that Swedish crime novelist Camilla Läckberg —“the queen of Nordic noir,” as she’s...
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Revue of Reviewers: 10-6-23Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more....
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Read a Banned Book TodayBefore we exit this year’s Banned Books Week , I want to draw your attention to a list —compiled by the American Library Association’s Office of...
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Requesting Your ParticipationIt’s time to talk about the Crime Fiction Lover Awards again—or at least about the process that will lead to this year’s winners. As it has done...
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Cleaning Up the BlogrollWhen I originally put together The Rap Sheet, more than 17 years ago , the Blogger content management system I chose to use didn’t offer as many...
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Time’s Imperfect Genre SurveyTime magazine is newly out with its list of “ The 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time ,” those selections made by a panel of...
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Still More Love for “Deadly Dames”This morning brings a very fine review, by Australian novelist/pop culture critic Andrew Nette, of The Art of Ron Lesser Volume 1: Deadly Dames...
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Nailing Down the NgaiosThere appears to be some confusion regarding when an announcement will be made about the winners of New Zealand’s 2023 Ngaio Marsh Awards for...
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It Never Hurts to Look AgainHow can it be the start of October already? It seems as if I have accomplished next to nothing thus far in 2023, though I know for a fact that many...
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A Mélange of Minor MentionsIn the absence of major crime-fiction news, I again offer you some items of interest that don’t require lengthy consideration. • A trailer has...
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Brushing Up on the Latest News• Several months ago we mentioned that British actress Lucy Boynton had been signed to play Ruth Ellis , the last woman to be hanged in the...
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PaperBack: “Silver Doll”Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider . Silver Doll , by “Blair Treynor,” aka Selina Abraham...
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Still in Thrall to SpenserI’d forgotten about this anniversary, but freelancer L. Wayne Hicks reminds us in CrimeReads that 2023 marks the 50th year since Boston writer...
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McCallum Finally Says “U.N.C.L.E.”This is sad. It was only a week ago that the Scottish-born performer was celebrating his 90th birthday. From the Associated Press : Actor David...
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Revue of Reviewers: 9-23-23Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more....
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“Truth” Be ToldJust over a month ago, we brought you news about five books shortlisted for the 2023 Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction, which celebrates...
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A Rather Rushed JudgmentThe mystery-genre history blog Ontos features a wonderful, but wildly premature article announcing the decline and fall of the fictional sleuth— in...
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Bullet Points: Feelings of Fall Edition• We still have a month to go before the U.S. release of director Martin Scorcese’s western crime drama, Killers of the Flower Moon . So for...
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What I’ll Do for Free MerchGenerally, I abhor having photographs taken of myself. But at Bouchercon in San Diego earlier this month, I promised Kevin Burton Smith, the...
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Kimble’s Stumbling First StepsI try to keep a watch out for crime-fiction-related anniversaries, but I missed a big one yesterday. As Terence Towles Canote wrote in A Shroud of...
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McSorley, Foster Saluted in StirlingAmong this evening’s events at the annual Bloody Scotland international crime-writing festival in Stirling, Scotland, were the announcements of two...
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Revue of Reviewers: 9-15-23Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more....
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The Stuff of NightmaresToday would have been Agatha Christie ’s 133rd birthday, had she not so inconveniently died in early 1976. By way of celebration, LitReactor’s...
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Bullet Points: Agatha in Bronze Edition• There are a couple of interesting items contained in author Max Allan Collins’ latest blog post . First off, he says he’s “setting out to do a...
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An Autumnal Abundance AwaitsI deliberately delayed posting The Rap Sheet’s list of choice crime novels for fall and early winter 2023, thinking I would probably hear...
