VJ Books Blog

Persistence pays for Cornwell

Persistence pays.  Cornwell’s first crime novel, Postmortem, was rejected by seven major publishign houses before it was published by Scribner in 1990.  It became the first novel to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix...

Award-winning mystery writer Julius Fast dies

(New York Times, Dec. 22, 2008, William Grimes) Julius Fast, who won the first Edgar Award given by the Mystery Writers of America and went on to publish popular books on body language and human relationships, died Tuesday in Kingston, N.Y. He was 89. His death was...

Tony Hillerman – Dies at 83

(guardian.co.uk, Oct 31, Michael Carlson) Award-winning US mystery writer drawn to the world of the Navajo people. Tony Hillerman’s 18 mystery novels, set in the Navajo lands of south-west America, earned him first a cult following and later best-seller status....