Kevin's Corner

 Lesa's Book Critiques: The Someday Garden by Ashley Poston

 Sisters in Crime: Visible Perfection by Kathleen Marple Kalb

 Kathleen Kalb: Yes, Thank You!

Beneath the Stains of Time: A Murder is Announced (1950) by Agatha Christie : Some years ago, while reviewing Agatha Christie's The Murd...

Allen Wyler is a retired neurosurgeon who lives in Seattle. He’s taken up writing thrillers as a second career, first publishing seven med...

 

 Lesa's Book Critiques: Dover, Ohio and Author Linda Castillo

 Dru's Book Musings: Coming Soon ~ August 2026

Little Big Crimes: The Briar Patch, by Tom Milani : "The Briar Patch," by Tom Milani, in Wish Upon a Crime: Crime Fiction Inspired...

I wasn’t really planning to compile this, but then Lesa Holstine did her list . So, I decided she could not have all the fun and came up wit...

 Lesa's Book Critiques: Maybe I’m Not God: Cat Chronicles by Stefania Gander

 Dru's Book Musings: New Releases ~ Week of July 19, 2026

Up on KRL this week reviews and giveaways of 2 fun cozy mysteries perfect for your summer reading-"The Chowder House Murder" A Dow...

 ButtonDown.Com: Private Eye July: Deprog

SleuthSayers: The Washed and the Unwashed (Once Again) : Literary fiction, genre fiction. What are the differences? I fully understand that ...

Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan is a book I would not have gotten except for the fact that when I was scrolling through Libby the cove...

 Lesa's Book Critiques: Framed for Murder by T.L. Haseeb

 Writer Beware: Anthropic Settlement Update: The Opt-Outs Strike Back

In Reference to Murder: Friday's "Forgotten" Books: The Habit of Fear : Dorothy Salisbury Davis (1916-2014) was born in Chica...

  Happiness Is A Book: Taking Detective Stories Seriously: The Collected Crime Reviews of Dorothy L. Sayers

Jerry's House of Everything: FORGOTTEN BOOK : FACES OF FEAR : Faces of Fear  by John Saul (2008) This was John Saul's 30th, and pen...

 Patricia Abbott: FFB: SPIES, Michael Frayn

For some time now, you have seen news of author Ed Teja’s publishing success in my “Thursday Treats” roundup of publishing news columns. Ple...

 Lesa's Book Critiques: What Are You Reading?

In Reference to Murder: Mystery Melange : Noir at the Bar, the long-running live literary event that combines crime fiction, cocktails, and ...

Mystery Fanfare: MAIGRET, Season 2, news : MASTERPIECE PBS has announced that Season 2 of   Maigret   will premiere on Sunday, October 18 a...

 ButtonDown.Com: Lynx (links) of interest

Beneath the Stains of Time: Out for Delivery: "The Jersey Devil" (1971) by Edw... : Some months ago, I reviewed a short story from...

Some reading opportunities of interest this week.   I am leading off with this publishing news as I am in the new issue this week. Black...

 Lesa's Book Critiques: Kevin’s Corner Annex – Birds of Prey

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: The Best American Mystery... :   The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century is an an...

  George Kelly: WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #279: GOING INTERSTELLAR Edited by Lee Johnson & Jack McDevitt 

Jerry's House of Everything: SGORT STORY WEDNESDAY: TAPPAN'S BURRO : "Tappan's Burro" by Zane Grey  (first published ...

 Patricia Abbott: Short Story Wednesday: TOP TEN BEST SHORT STORY MYSTERIES OF ALL TIME (The Strand)

As you may already know, I got published this week. My short story, A Plan Comes Together, appears in  Black Cat Weekly #254. They say ...