Category: Mystery
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Movie Review: Knives Out
The Jr. Mad Scientist sent me a message yesterday. “I’m thinking about renting Knives Out, would you want to watch it with me?” I was delighted with the idea. We’re all in the same house, but she and I and the Little Man have mostly been giving one another space. Me, because sick, her…
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Cover Reveal!
I plan to publish this one during the first week of August, but this is what the cover will likely look like. Feel free to drop your thoughts in the comments, I always appreciate feedback. Detective Amaya Lombard is a witch hunter and a damn good one. Hated by the magical because she works with…
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Life is Muddy Waters
Life is long, and boring, and confusing, and painful, and goes by too fast, and far too exciting, except when it isn’t and it’s all very opaque. I got to get out on the river yesterday, for what was not only my first time in a kayak, but to help with Stream Quality Monitoring…
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WIP Snippet
#amwriting I’ve been trying to write daily, and… well, I’ve been writing every other day. Since writing and blogging today just wasn’t going to happen, you’re getting a snippet of what I wrote today. It’s not a beginning, it’s part of a story but a chapter or two in, and I haven’t written the beginning…
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Writing in Public I
I’m a bit fed-up with myself. I simply cannot seem to find the time to write, these days. So I’m going to take the time to write, even if it displaces my blog, I’m afraid. I’ll write here, and eventually I’ll coallate it all into… whatever it turns into. This is a WIP, one that…
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Cop Tales: Three Reviews
One of the fun things about having Kindle Unlimited is that I can test a new author without too much commitment. And on days when I’m feeling under the weather, a disposable book I don’t have to think about is handy, and convenient if I’m not at home with my library. So I wound up…
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Review: Bureau of Substandards
This is actually going to be a triplet of reviews and a gripe. I spent most of yesterday under the weather (no, that’s not a gripe, that’s life, and I take it when my body says ‘rest now or else’ because else is usually pneumonia with me. I rested, and read) and I was having…
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Not a Review
This isn’t a review, per se, because I haven’t been reading the ‘right’ books recently. Not the ones I would normally review for my readers. If you’re wondering what that means, it means I haven’t had the time to give full mental capacity to the books I need to review, and I was sick yesterday,…
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Sherlockia
Last night while I was making dinner, and the First Reader was standing at the sink washing up, we were talking books. I’d told him earlier in the day that I wasn’t going to finish David Pascoe’s Baptism by Fire in time to review it today. It’s not that it’s bad, I told him, quite…
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Review: The Private Shambler
It’s been a hectic couple of weeks. I skipped out of writing a review last week partly because of my schedule, and partly because I hadn’t finished anything recently. Well, this week I did finish a nice, light, funny book. With Zombies… and vampires, and ghosts, and pretty much anything else Kevin J Anderson could…
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Review: Mostly Murder
This was a great find. One of the pulp paperbacks I picked up as part of a bundle at the Peddlar’s Market a while back, Frederic Brown’s collection of crime short stories, Mostly Murder, has some real zingers in it. They aren’t all terribly mysterious, but his obsession with carnivals and circuses, tough guys and…