Buried Treasure: Easter Eggs and Red Herrings
Easter eggs and red herrings are the buried treasure of crime fiction. One enlightens and the other obscures. Both reward the sharp-eyed reader.
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Category: Reading
Fun Book Facts
True Confession: I love books. I love the sight of them lined up on shelves, waiting to be chosen in[…]
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Great Expectations and Bad Breakups
Great Expectations and Bad Breakups: How writers craft endings that justify the means and means that justify the ends. See also: Miss Scarlet, in the Conservatory, with a Knife.
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Interview with Robyn Gigl
Today I’m chatting with Robyn Gigl, the author of the award winning attorney Erin McCabe mystery series. Robyn, TIME Magazine[…]
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Bookshelves and what’s on ’em
The place we keep our treasured books varies from reader to writer, providing inspiration and research, but who knew bookshelves[…]
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all Miss Demeanors wonderful readers! Today I wanted to ring in 2024 by introducing you to[…]
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Historical Sleuths
I’ve been gathering research for a stand alone mystery set in 1926, for writing next year, while at the same[…]
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J.M. Redmann’s Transitory – A Micky Knight Mystery
Please join me in welcoming J.M. Redmann who just published Transitory, the eleventh book in her long-running mystery series featuring New[…]
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Female Detectives to Die For
No, not Cagney and Lacey, although they remain a very popular team from television. Norwegian crime writer Anne Holt (ret.[…]
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Introducing Angela Greenman
Please welcome Angela Greenman author of The Child Riddler, an action packed book about an elite operative in an international[…]
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