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Standing Out from the CrowdI wasn’t able to attend this year’s Left Coast Crime gathering, but Bay Area author and photographer Mark Coggins was in attendance. He sent back...
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Let’s Hear It for the LeftysDuring a banquet last evening at the Left Coast Crime convention, being held this weekend in Bellevue, Washington (just east of Seattle),...
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Out in Front of the FieldIt’s only April, but already George Easter, the editor of Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine , is busy compiling an extensive list of 2024’s best...
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Many Happy Returns of the DayTax Day ( April 15 ) is not ordinarily the cheeriest occasion for Americans. But it can be made considerably more rewarding with the injection into...
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Positive ImpressionsWe’re still more than a month out from the start of the 2024 Capital Crime festival in London, but organizers have already announced the...
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More Reasons to Flip on the TVAll hail The Killing Times, the British blog that today brings us three terrific batches of news about near-future TV productions. It was more...
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Who’s Talking Now?Is it simply my imagination, or has there been an extraordinary plenitude lately of interesting interviews with authors of crime and mystery noves?...
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Bullet Points: Eclipse Day Edition• The Columbophile Blog reports that David Koenig, author of the 2021 book Shooting Columbo , will be back in print next month with Unshot...
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Revue of Reviewers: 4-5-24Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more....
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Keeping Things ShortThe Short Mystery Fiction Society has announced its nominations for the 2024 Derringer Awards, in four categories. Best Flash Story (up to...
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Owl Finds a PerchMarc Cameron, a onetime U.S. marshal, now an author living in Alaska, has won this year’s Spotted Owl Award for his 2023 suspense novel,...
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The Last of Mr. GossettI don’t even know where to start in honoring the life and seven-decades-long career of Louis Gossett Jr. , the Coney Island-born actor who died...
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PaperBack: “The Lone Wolf”Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider . The Lone Wolf , by Louis Joseph Vance (Dell, 1943). This...
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Extolling InclusivityOrganizers of the annual Lambda Literary Awards (aka the “Lammys”), which celebrate the best of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer...
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Little’s Big MoveHave I really been watching the BBC-TV series Death in Paradise for 13 seasons? Hard to believe, but true. And I’m just one weekly episode away...
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The Dove Has LandedCongratulations to UK critic Barry Forshaw! From The Bunburyist : The 2024 recipient of the George N. Dove Award for contributions to the...
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Revue of Reviewers: 3-17-24Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more....
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Ukraine’s Bid for the BookerAs incredible as it may seem, the longlist of contenders for the 2024 International Booker Prize—“which seeks to honor the best novels and...
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A Toast to Their TriumphsBlogger B.V. Lawson shares this recent news : Congratulations to Philip Wilson, winner (“A Recipe for Stovies”), and also to runner-up Elisabeth...
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Go for the GreenDeath by Leprechaun . Paddy Whacked . Lack of the Irish . Corned Beef and Casualties . Shamrock Shenanigans . Judging by two recently posted...
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Forgotten Crime Films: “Gumshoe”(Editor’s note: Over the last 16 years, The Rap Sheet has posted numerous pieces about “forgotten” crime, mystery, and thriller books. Today...
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Small Screens, Different StarsThis evening will bring the presentation of the 96th annual Academy Awards for artistic and technical excellence in films for 2023. And while most...
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Preparing a Tracy RevivalHere’s a bit of unforeseen news, from the entertainment site CBR : In 1931, Chester Gould introduced comic strip readers to a trench coat-clad,...
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Put a Little Sugar on It, Baby!I must confess to being rather puzzled by recent stories about the upcoming Apple TV+ series Sugar , which will star award-winning Irish actor...
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Sound JudgmentsAs promised, the Audio Publishers Association (APA) last evening announced the winners of its 2024 Audie Awards during a ceremony in Los Angeles....
