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Stegman, Casey, "Effie's Oasis," Mysterious Bookshop Presents The Best Mystery Stories of The Year 2025, edited by John Grisham, Mysterious Press, 2025. As regular readers of this little blog feature know, I hate children-in-jeopardy stories. I have a system: when I hit the mention of a kid in a story/book/novel, I skip ahead to see if the kid is mentioned (and alive) at the end. If the story seems a bit too rough, I quit then and there. (l do the same with pets.) Usually, I find out that the kid's dead or not important, and I don't read the story. So, when I read Stegman's story, with its wonderful voice and great main character, I got to page four or so, when a child starts crying after being called a name, and I of course skipped to the end. Yep, the kid's there. And the ending was so fascinating that I did something I hadn't done outside of my editing days. I read the story backwards. That usually means something kicked me out in the middle, but I'm intrigued enough to want to know what happened. And in this case, I had no obligation to read the story, but I did so anyway. It's good, it's smart, and it's powerful. I suggest reading it forward, however.

Wow! I just saw this lovely shoutout from @kristinerusch.bsky.social on her blog about my story, “Effie’s Oasis” (in THE BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF 2025 from @mysteriousbookshop.com). This made my day, week, and month!

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INDIE BOOKSTORE DAY OFFER

Spring cleaning revealed a limited number of these old pins we made for the bookshop in the 1980s, so we will be giving the away on Indie Bookstore Day, SATURDAY APRIL 25, *in store only* with purchases of over $100. See you then!

Mysterious Cherry Blossom update

Mysterious Cherry Blossom update

INDIE BOOKSTORE DAY OFFER

Spring cleaning revealed a limited number of these old pins we made for the bookshop in the 1980s, so we will be giving the away on Indie Bookstore Day, SATURDAY APRIL 25, *in store only* with purchases of over $100. See you then!

Yesterday marked 47 years in business here at the Mysterious Bookshop. Thanks for keeping us around, mystery fans!

Yesterday marked 47 years in business here at the Mysterious Bookshop. Thanks for keeping us around, mystery fans!

Best cover art I’ve seen so far. Going to dig through these more later

When the resident Bluesky user is out for a few days and comes back to find a huge pile of Dell mapbacks

Criminal Element reveals the cover of @jonathanames.bsky.social A PAST WITHOUT PICTURES, with excerpt included, coming in September from Mysterious Press: www.criminalelement.com/a-past-witho...

Friends, we have mystery books for sale. See what’s new here: mailchi.mp/mysteriousbo...

Photo of author Allan Gaw with a copy of his novel, The Silent House of Sleep.

And the early copies have winged their way across the Atlantic. The Silent House of Sleep will be published in the US by Mysterious Press @mysteriousbookshop.com on May 5. Available to preorder now.
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The Tree of Light and Flowers by Thomas Perry is only $5.99 - BookBub Suspense doesn t get much better than this smart, fast-paced action drama from a stellar literary talent (Library Journal) and master at ratcheting up tension (The New York Times). Jane Whitefield is ...

Thomas Perry’s The Tree of Light and Flowers is just $5.99 today on BookBub www.bookbub.com/books/the-tr...

Heads up New York! Metrograph is doing a Donald Westlake film series next week: metrograph.com/westlake-fil...

Heads up New York! Metrograph is doing a Donald Westlake film series next week: metrograph.com/westlake-fil...

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: We will be celebrating our friend Lee Child’s long-overdue Grand Master award, and the rest of the Edgar Award nominees, with a champagne party at the shop on Tuesday April 28th, 6-8 PM!

15 Historical Mysteries Out This Spring Murder and mayhem occur everywhere from Victorian Scotland to 1920s India in these new books.

The Best Historical Mysteries of Spring - BookBub - www.bookbub.com/blog/histori...

Looks like a Good Friday to pick up some new mystery reads! Don’t Passover these hot new releases…

POV: Reading a 500 page book about the Irish countryside on the J train

hells yeah

Come one, come all!! Free and open to the public

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: We will be celebrating our friend Lee Child’s long-overdue Grand Master award, and the rest of the Edgar Award nominees, with a champagne party at the shop on Tuesday April 28th, 6-8 PM!

Tana French has an amazing signature

😂 it’s all good! We probably should have the website in the profile but there wasn’t room. Also our username is our website so it seemed redundant

A glorious author signature.

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Signed copies of THE KEEPER, Tana French’s newest, are now available in store and online