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Buried Treasure: Easter Eggs and Red Herrings

April 2, 2025 Lori Robbins Fiction, Language, Mystery Community, Reading, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized

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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Fun Book Facts

March 25, 2025 Marni Graff Books, Librarians, Reading, Writers inspirations

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

February 27, 2025 Lori Robbins #inspiration, Editing, Fiction, Inspiration, Language, Mystery Community, Reading, Writers, Writing

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

September 3, 2024 Catherine Maiorisi Mystery Community, Reading, Uncategorized, Writers

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

February 12, 2024 Marni Graff Book Covers, Books, Inspiration, Librarians, Reading, Writers inspirations

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

January 1, 2024 Marni Graff #inspiration, Books, Creating Characters, Fiction, Inspiration, Mystery Community, Reading, Setting, Writers inspirations

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

November 18, 2023 Marni Graff Books, Historical Mysteries, Reading, Uncategorized, Writers inspirations

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

September 29, 2023 Catherine Maiorisi Books, Reading

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

August 7, 2023 MIss Demeanors Books, Fiction, Inspiration, Reading, Writers inspirations

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

July 28, 2023 Catherine Maiorisi Mystery Community, Reading, Writing

Please welcome Angela Greenman author of The Child Riddler, an action packed book about an elite operative in an international[…]

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