by vjbooks | Feb 19, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(baltimoresun.com, Feb. 15, Diane Scharper) For the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth, the Mystery Writers of America have published this collection of 16 of Poe’s best works with often-insightful commentary by well-known mystery writers. As...
by vjbooks | Feb 16, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(news.cincinnati.com, Jan. 21, Dinesh Ramde) “In the Shadow of the Master” (William Morrow, 416 pages), edited by Michael Connelly: The beating of the telltale heart still echoes beneath the floorboards. The cask of amontillado still eludes the wretched...
by vjbooks | Jan 15, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Stephen J. Cannell is the bestselling author of twelve novels, including the critically acclaimed Shane Scully series, which includes White Sister, Cold Hit, Vertical Coffin, Hollywood Tough, The Viking Funeral, The Tin Collectors and Three Shirt Deal. In addition,...
by vjbooks | Jan 1, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh and has since been employed as grape-picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol researcher, hi-fi journalist and punk musician.His first Rebus novel, Knots & Crosses, was published...
by vjbooks | Dec 1, 2008 | Children and YA, Collecting, We're Talking Books!
(marketwatch.com, Nov 20) Mystery Writers of America (MWA) has announced that the organization will name James Lee Burke and Sue Grafton its 2009 Grand Masters in honor of the Bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth next year. Not since 1978 has the organization...
by vjbooks | Nov 18, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Clinton Herald, Nov. 18) CLINTON — “The Minnesota Crime Wave,” a trio of mystery writers, will make a stop at Ashford University Thursday. William Kent “Iceman” Krueger, Ellen “Murder Most Fowl” Hart and Carl “Sailor” Brookins will present a writers’ workshop from 1...
