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K.P., along with her fellow ink-stained wretches, put out a weekly blog. Enjoy!

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THE POWER OF THE QUESTION MARK

Why do we mystery readers read the next line? Turn to the next page? Some writers have the knack of persuading us–for example, Tony...

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Terry Shames’ Samuel Craddock Mysteries: A “Genre-Bending” Series and One True Sen

Texas mystery author Terry Shames’ latest book, Murder at the Jubilee Rally, has been reviewed on ABC News. To use a folksy phrase—Folks,...

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Book Review: The Wife, by Meg Wolitzer

by Renee Kimball “The moment I decided to leave him, the moment I thought, enough, we were thirty-thousand feet above the ocean, hurtling...

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Tell Me a Story! P.D. James, Talking about Detective Fiction, 2009

by Helen Currie Foster “Tell me a story,” begs the child. “Tell me a story about before you met me,” the lover entreats the loved one....

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BOOK REVIEW: FULL DARK, NO STARS by Stephen King

Written by Renee Kimball “From the start . . . I felt that the best fiction was both propulsive and assaultive. It gets in your face....

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One Pebble in a Shoe Can Change the Universe

It happened again. An author killed off a character I love. I hate that. I hate the author. I continue to like the book, but the author I...

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Confessions of a Closet Re-Reader: Le Carré and his Characters

by Helen Currie Foster In her 2001 collection Rereadings, Anne Fadiman challenged writers to revisit books they read before they were...