Fiction Review: Faithful Place by Tana French
Faithful Place by Tana French, 2010 [SPOILERS] Faithful Place by Tana French is an unconventional mystery novel. There is a crime, there is a detective and the detective solves the crime, but in many ways this takes a secondary place to the detective’s own story. Frank Mackey, a seasoned detective with the Undercover Squad, is […]
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In the News: Who dunnit? Top tips for writing detective fiction
Great article from the Guardian on writing detective fiction by Rohan Gavin. Check it out! http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/jan/26/tips-writing-detective-fiction Excerpt: “I love detective novels because, like a favourite dish, you always know what you’re going to get, but you never know quite how it’s going to be served up. Detective stories always have a crime, a clue, a […]
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The Fate of Rosaline: A Review of “The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin” (SPOILERS)
Anonymous. “The Ruins of the Abbey Fitz-Martin” in The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009): 31-49. In “The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin,” Sir Thomas Fitz-Martin and his daughter Rosaline move into an ancestral home with a dark and disturbing history. Before the Fitz-Martin family moves into the abbey, the author […]
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Fiction Review: The Man Who Controls the Earth by Marc Schiffman (2012)
The Man Who Controls the Earth by Marc Schiffman Self-published in 2012, Marc Schiffman’s novel is the story of a hard-boiled investigative newsman that moves—or gets pushed around. Expatriate news writer, Peter Merlo, lives a self-destructive life in Bangkok, Thailand. One “evening after,” two mysterious Thai men call on his help. An old friend and […]
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Bouchercon 2016: The World Mystery Convention
Hotel Registration is now OPEN for Bouchercon 2016! New Orleans Marriott 555 Canal St New Orleans, LA 504 581 1000 (Please use this number when asking about hotel reservations or you can email answers@bouchercon2016.com) Bouchercon is the world’s finest annual crime fiction event, bringing together more than 1,000 authors, fans, publishers, reviewers, booksellers, editors, and […]
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Fiction Review: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (1998)
The book I have chosen to review is The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, a mystery novel by Alexander McCall Smith. This is the first novel of “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” series by Alexander McCall Smith. The series is set in Gaborone, Botswana, and follows the adventures of the clever and compassionate Mma […]
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Fiction Review: Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow (1987)
Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent, his first published murder mystery/legal thriller novel in 1987, was a phenomenal success both with the critics and the popular readers. It spent 45 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and is one of the very first novels of its kind – namely the murder mystery genre, that also […]
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Fiction Review: Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Of Love and Other Demons (1995)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel tells the story of Sierva Maria de Todos los Angeles, a girl neglected by her parents who finds in the Yoruba faith of the slaves a refuge for her longings. In a South American seaport of the eighteenth-century, Sierva is bitten by a dog while she walked on the streets with […]
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Congratulations Patricia Heenan!
We are thoroughly excited to announce that one of our own, Patricia Heenan, will have a poem published in the October edition of Creative Wisconsin! http://wiwrite.org/ Congratulations Trish! Well deserved! We’ll post a link to her work as soon as it is made available.
Fiction Review: Cocaine Blues, a Phryne Fisher Detective Novel by Kerry Greenwood (1989)
In Cocaine Blues, the first novel of Kerry Greenwood’s rip-roaring mystery series set in 1920s Melbourne Australia, we are introduced to the fabulous world of the Honourable Phryne Fisher. Not only is Phryne Fisher a preeminent female gumshoe of the flapper era, she solves crimes with panache and in high fashion while driving fast flashy […]
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