Kevin's Corner

When the publisher Down & Out Books went under, it took down a lot of good crime fiction reading. Slowly, those books are coming back wi...

 

 Lesa's Book Critiques: Ironwood by Michael Connelly

 Happiness Is A Book: Murder in High Provence by George Bellairs

 The First Two Pages: “Home” by DK Snyder

 ButtonDown.Com: No Man's Land by Szymon Kudranski

Little Big Crimes: It's Complicated, by Nick Guthrie :  "It's Complicated," by Nick Guthrie, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mys...

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: BEHIND THAT CURTAIN (1929) :  Charlie Chan was a fictional Honolulu detective created by...

  As Ironwood: A Catalina Novel by Michael Connelly begins, it is approximately one year after the events of Nightshade . While it is alw...

 Lesa's Book Critiques: Deadly Cairns by Joana Snowdon

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...

The fifth book in the DS Lucas Walker series by Patricia Wolf, to be released later this month, is as good as the earlier titles. Wolf has...

 Kathleen Kalb: You Deserve a Break

 Lesa's Book Critiques: A Sprinkle of Sweet Serendipity by Rachel Linden

Up on KRL this week a review and giveaway of "Drafted in Deceit" by Simone Stier, along with an interesting interview with Simone ...

Mist and Malice: A Haven Thriller   by Rachel Howzell Hall picks up within hours of the conclusion of the preceding novel, Fog and Fury . S...

 Lesa's Book Critiques: The Teacher by Tim Sullivan

 Lesa's Book Critiques: New Releases ~ Week of May 17, 2026

SleuthSayers: It's Still a Mystery : At a signing in a bookstore years ago, a lady (a.k.a. potential buyer) stopped at my table, picked...

The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog: SMFS Spotlight: John M. Floyd : Elena Smith is back again to shine the spotlight on a member of SMFS...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in the Air (1931) by Darwin L. Teilhet : Darwin L. Teilhet was an American journalist, advertising execu...

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Cinder House by Freya Marske : Reviewed by Jeanne Ella is quite the homebody—literally.   Murdered at s...

  The Gate of the Feral Gods is the fourth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman and continues the adventures of Prince...

 Lesa's Book Critiques: Captiva Memorial Library Highlights

 Don't Need A Diagram: Michael Lewis, “The Fifth Risk”

 Happiness Is A Book: Friday’s Forgotten Book: My Late Wives by Carter Dickson

In Reference to Murder: Forgotten Books Friday - The Long Shadow : Celia Fremlin (1914-2009) was born in Kingsbury, England, the daughter of...

  From the archive.... Living on a farm in Stark County, North Dakota in July of 1964 is hard, but it isn’t winter and that helps a little b...

 Lesa's Book Critiques: What Are You Reading?

In Reference to Murder: Mystery Melange : The 2026 winners of The British Book Awards (aka "The Nibbies") were announced on Tuesd...

Criminal Minds: Old Dog, New Tricks from James W. Ziskin : What writing lessons did you have to keep learning over and over? Writers are oft...

The latest reading opportunities…     Fellow SMFS list member Gerald Elias announced on the list that his short story collection, Mur...