Kevin's Corner

Mystery Fanfare: CHINESE NEW YEAR MYSTERIES: Year of the Horse : 恭賀發財 Gung Hay Fat Choy! This is the Year of the Horse. To celebrate the Chi...

 Lesa's Book Critiques: The Astral Library by Kate Quinn

 Happiness Is A Book: The Ringer by Dell Shannon

SleuthSayers: Red Herrings Can Still Stink : Five years ago, I ran the following column, which had the most views of all my SleuthSayers ess...

Jerry's House of Everything: ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: BAD ACTOR (JANUARY 9,... : We lost one of America's greatest actors this w...

    Diversion: A Probation Case Files Mystery is the third book in the highly enjoyable series that began with Obey All Laws . While you ...

 Lesa's Book Critiques: Murder Will Out by Jennifer K. Breedlove

  Always amazed to make the list. My review of  The Hadacol Boogie: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke gets the roundup started this...

Mystery Fanfare: PRESIDENTIAL MYSTERIES: Presidents Day : I usually post a  Presidential Mysteries list  for  Presidents Day, a nd I have to...

 Level Best Books has reopened to novel submissions. Details on their new website. 

In Reference to Murder: Media Murder for Monday : It's the start of a new week and that means it's time for a brand-new roundup of c...

 Kathleen Marple Kalb: The Last Pass

   The Carousel of Time by Bernard O’Keeffe, the fifth book in the DI Jim Garibaldi series, will be released in the UK by Muswell Press o...

Little Big Crimes: The Right to Lose, by Wil Medearis : "T he Right to Lose," by Wil Medearis, in  Tennis Noir,  edited by John Sh...

Mystery Fanfare: MARDI GRAS MYSTERIES : Mardi Gras aka Carnivale . Whatever you call it, it's a great setting for Murder ! Busy st...

 Lesa's Book Critiques: Kevin’s Corner Annex – The Hadacol Boogie by James Lee Burke

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Ring of Innocent (1952) by Brian Flynn : Brian Flynn 's The Ring of Innocent (1952), the fortieth title...

    Please welcome back author Kris Bock to the blog today with an excerpt from her new mystery, Something Prowling in Paradise Park: A Ka...

 Lesa's Book Critiques: Mrs. Claus and the Very Vicious Valentine by Liz Ireland

The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog: More Recent Publications from the Short Mystery Fi... : Still hiding out from the cold? Got some tim...

Up on KRL this week a review and giveaway of another fun food mystery, "May Contain Murder" by Orlando Murrin, along with a yummy ...

 Dru's Book Musings: New Releases ~ Week of February 15, 2026 

Mystery Fanfare: SWEETHEART SLEUTHS : Here's my updated Short List  of Sweetheart Sleuths for Valentine's Day!  I'm sur...

Jerry's House of Everything: BIG TEX #1 (JUNE 1953) :  Alas, Big Tex  wasn;t big enough to make past its first issue. Tex White is new ...

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories by Lee Child :   Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories by Lee Chi...

    Bug Wars Book One: Lost in the Yard by Jason Aaron, Mahmud Asrar (Illustrator), Matt Wilson (Colorist), and Becca Carey (Designer) is...

 Lesa's Book Critiques: Mark Baker’s Favorite Books Read in 2025

 Jim Nesbitt's Substack Review: High Speed, Low Drag

 The Hard Word: A NEW YEAR, A NEW NOIR AT THE BAR

 In Reference to Murder: Friday's "Forgotten" Books: Gideon's Fire

 Happiness Is A Book: Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Footsteps That Stopped by A. Fielding

Jerry's House of Everything: A FORGOTTEN BOOK TWOFER :   Mike Mars Flies the X-15  by Donald A. Wollheim  (1961) Air Force!   by Frank H...

 Patricia Abbott: FFB: THEY CALLED US ENEMY, George Takei

 The Rap Sheet: Nothing Will Replace the Original

In Reference to Murder: Mystery Melange : The 2026 Pulp Factory Awards finalists have been announced, voted on by members of Pulp Factory, a...

 Lesa's Book Critiques: What Are You Reading?

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Hybrid Mysteries : In 2021, John Pugmire's Locked Room International publishe...

Welcome back to “Thursday Treats.”   Viewership dropped significantly again, week to week, so maybe this was not the bright idea I thought i...

 Lesa's Book Critiques: Future Boy by Michael J. Fox

Mystery Fanfare: VALENTINE'S DAY MYSTERIES. //VALENTINE'S DAY CRIME... : Although Valentine's Day is all about love, but ...

 Something Is Going To Happen: Newberry Crime Writing Workshop (by Michael Bracken)

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: More Short Stories by the L... :   I read the first few stories in Flair for Murder by Franc...

 George Kelly: WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #261: THE BATMAN ANNUALS, VOLUME TWO

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: NOBODY LIVES THERE NOW, NO... : "Nobody Lives There Now, Nothing Happens"...

  Patricia Abbott: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY-"For a Long Time This was Griselda's Story" Anthony Doerr from THE SHELL COLLECTOR

    Please welcome back author Jim Nesbitt back to the blog today with his latest guest post review …   The main character in Geri Dre...