Kicking off the blog tour for The Future of Fraud! Previously on the Ramblings I’ve covered a number of books in Melville House Press’s FUTURES series; intriguing little essay books which explore a particular topic, the titles I’v…

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TBR Thursday 492… The current state of the TBR, and a preview of four books I’ll be reading soon: The Secret Thread by Eve Chase, See You in September by Charity Norman, Nothing Ventured by Jeffrey Archer, and…

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Review: Opposite Sully’s Gym by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson | Canadian Noir Patrick Bird is out of work again, a recurring problem since he left the PI business. His wife, Rose, is tired of being the sole breadwinner, especially now she thinks she might be pregnant. Patric…

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Enola Holmes (Holmes on Film) One of the recurring themes in recent Holmes-adjacent works on screen is the idea of adding or exploring the lives of family members. Last year the US network The CW started Sherlock & Daughter…

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In The Spotlight: Carla Kovach’s The Next Girl Visit the post for more.

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Doug Johnstone- The Ossians- @doug_johnstone @orendabooks #BlogTour Connor is twenty-four: brilliant, broken, and out of control. He’s the swaggering frontman of The Ossians, a Scottish indie band on the brink of signing a major record deal. Desperate to make their…

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“Death, after all, is not a great thing to want for.” #nightjarpress In my post on Nicholas Royle’s “Finders, Keepers” I mentioned that he was the man behind Nightjar Press, publishers of some very striking little chapbooks. I’ve read a few o…

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Going over to the dark side ... - CHRISTINE POULSON It must be about twenty years ago that Ra Page at Comma Press asked me if I would be interested in submitting something for a collection of horror stories dealing specifically with modern life. I said...

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Keeping Your Mystery Plausible – Elizabeth Spann Craig Five essential techniques for keeping your mystery plots believable, grounded, and engaging without becoming overly complex or far-fetched.

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The #1961Club comes to an end – but what year will we choose next??? 🤔📚 Well, as the saying goes – that’s a wrap! The 1961 Club has come to an end, and what a fabulous week it was! This turned out to be a particularly good year for books and I don’t k…

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All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall “With its beautiful sentences and a propulsive plot…this is an essential novel for our times.” Nayomi Munaweera

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Short Reviews for April I’ve only finished six books so far in April, but at the rate I’m going with (not) sitting at my desk, I’ll probably need another six months to review them properly. So instead I&…

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A Grief Observed (Readers Edition) by C S Lewis #1961Club This unsentimental, even bracing, account of one man’s dialogue with despair becomes both compelling and consoling … Book blurb It offers an interrogation of experience and a glimmer of…

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Steven Max Russo: The Hunted Ophelia Harris, is a former CIA analyst employed by a private security firm. After a raid on an insurgent operation goes catastrophically wrong, Ophelia is the only survivor. She escapes with two s…

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LitLinks – Elizabeth Spann Craig LitLinks is a weekly roundup of the top writing links from around the web. It's curated by mystery writer Elizabeth Spann Craig.

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“…Doc Benway assessed the situation…” #1961Club #thesoftmachine I’ve been gradually making my way through the books of William S. Burroughs, starting with “Junky” back in 2024; so when I realised that the next book chronologically was “T…

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46. MANTRAP (1953) with Steve Rogers of Hammer Films Terence Fisher’s 1953 whodunit, MANTRAP (US title: Man in Hiding), starring Lois Maxwell, Paul Henreid and Kay Kendall, is the latest thriller from the vaults of Hammer Films to be restored a…

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Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid* Some people want to know about their backgrounds. That’s why companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com are successful. The information can be absolutely fascinating, and sometimes useful. There are t…

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Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid*

Some people want to know about their backgrounds. That’s why companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com are successful. The information can be absolutely fascinating, and sometimes useful. There are times, though, when that knowledge causes heartbreak. There are…

You have already seen the ending; you simply chose to forget it - Coming in June Jezebel's Island: A Mystery Thriller by Gabriela Marie Milton. Short Prose - Gabriela Marie Milton - Poet and Publisher, #1 Amazon Bestselling Author

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Get a Clue, Dad! 7: Poached by Stuart Gibbs MJ and I both enjoyed the first FunJungle mystery, Belly Up, so it wasn’t a huge shock when she told me she had jumped ahead to read the second book, Poached. I’m only surprised she has…

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“Oh, the sounds of time are pouring through the window…” #1961Club #PullMyDaisy The second Beat book I wanted to share some thoughts on for the #1961Club is perhaps an unusual one. Titled “Pull My Daisy”, it gathers together texts by Jack Kerouac that were based ar…

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