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Chris Well: Learning Curve (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Janet Rudolph 's Mystery Fanfare points to a couple of recent articles of interest to fans of mysteries. First, thriller novelist Jason Pinter asks six reviewers to weigh in on the "State of the Crime Novel" for The Huffington Post: I'm a crime addict, a thriller writer, a lover of everything that goes bump (and bang, and slash, and boom) in the night. Yet as a former editor I'm fascinated...
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Maya Reynolds (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Even though I had tons to do this weekend--what with the 605 emails awaiting my return at my office and the Holidays rapidly approaching--I took time off. After a week in Florida, I was plumb out of steam. I diddled around on the Internet and spent the better part of today reading Joe R. Lansdale's latest Hap and Leonard outing: Vanilla Ride . I've been reading Lansdale since his first H&L novel...
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Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
It begins, as many in this series do, in the classic way of a new client visiting the office of the private investigator. This October morning finds attorney Elizabeth Shaw at Spenser’s office. Referred to him by a mutual friend, Rita Fiore, she seeks Spenser’s help on behalf of a group of women who are [...]
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It's all about me! (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
From Amazon ~ Spenser agrees to help a quartet of married women fend off extortion demands from stud Gary Eisenhower, with whom each has had an affair. Meanwhile, the husband of one of the women under blackmail threat hires some thugs to deal with the matter. The action takes its time getting to a dead body, but, as usual, the smooth, entertaining prose more than compensates for any deficiencies of...
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Lesa's Book Critiques (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
If you read Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels, have you wondered how Spenser developed his code of ethics? How did he become the unusual man he is? Parker answers that question in a novel designed for teens, Chasing the Bear . For teens interested in mysteries, it's an interesting introduction to the entire series. For those of us who have read all of the Spenser books, it answers questions. While...
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Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Yes, I'm still reading Parker. Yes, I still like the books. I'm pretty sure it's the voice more than anything, certainly not the plots, not in The Professional , in which Spenser is asked to put a stop to an extortionist who's got the goods on four women married to wealthy husbands. Spenser finds the culprit, talks to him, and finds he kind of likes the guy. He also finds there's no way to stop him....
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Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A Different Take on John D. MacDonald By Brendan DuBois The postings and writings about John D. MacDonald on Ed Gorman’s blog got me thinking about my own memories of this famed grandmaster. One of the most embarrassing details about me being a mystery author is just how ill-informed I am about the field, especially when I first started out. I sold my first short story to Ellery Queen’s...
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Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Spenser's hunting a blackmailer of rich wives and ends up in a killer's crosshairs. Sponsored Topics: Robert B. Parker - Professional - Arts - Literature - Works
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2 Blowhards (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- Edward Craig, back in Michigan after bravely braving San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore and living to report his findings here, now unearths for us a surprising nugget of ... well, let him report: * * * * * Michael Blowhard often lamented on this site about the lack of appreciation for the writing skills of popular novelists. These novelists often share...
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Maw Books Blog (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The New York Times Bestseller List October 18, 2009 Hardcover Fiction THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. Robert Langdon among the Masons. A TOUCH OF DEAD, by Charlaine Harris. The complete Sookie Stackhouse stories. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi. THE PROFESSIONAL, by Robert B. Parker. Rich women are turning up [...]
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Lesa's Book Critiques (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
By my count, I've read forty-five books by Robert B. Parker, probably the most I've read by any author. When I finished The Professional , his latest Spenser novel, I had read all thirty-seven Spenser books, one Jesse Stone, four Sunny Randall, both Philip Marlowe ones, and even a teen novel. And, I just discovered he has "A Young Spenser novel," called Chasing the Bear , in which Spenser...
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Word Nerd (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Last but in no way least in the pre-Bouchercon guest blogger line-up is Sean Chercover. Sean's no stranger to Word Nerd (There are two past interviews, one after his first book and another around the release of the second ) but this time, it's all him. Chercover is the author of the Ray Dudgeon series (Big City, Bad Blood and Trigger City) and takes a look today at how or why or why not to evolve a...
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