Here’s a chance to enjoy two detective novels set 9 centuries and half a world apart without paying a cent. First head to 11th c. Japan and enjoy RASHOMON GATE, first book in an extensive series featuring the detective from author I.J. Parker‘s Shamus-winning short story. Sugawara Akitada, a clerk in the Ministry of Justice, is sent […]
Continue readingCheck out some new sleuths on this updated list of authors whose series feature women PI’s. (It’s the closest I’ll get to spring cleaning.) More will be coming soon. Right now I’m reading my way through a pile of submissions for this year’s Shamus Awards – and having great fun getting to know the other […]
Continue readingGet acquainted with a P.I. you’ve never visited. No Game for a Dame, first book of the Maggie Sullivan mystery series, is 99 cents for Kindle users Jan. 16-18. Also sale priced on Amazon UK.
Continue readingLike most of you, I read a lot of novels — some with private investigators, some without — in 2014. Here are some I enjoyed most. They’re in no particular order. A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley — The cadence and language of the narrative is as pitch-perfect as everything else in this story of […]
Continue readingPrivate Eye Writers of America announced this year’s Shamus Award winners at their Nov. 14 dinner in Long Beach, CA. The event took place at Gladstone’s Long Beach during the 2014 Bouchercon world mystery convention. Here’s a photo of the recipients. L. to R. are Grant Bywaters (St. Martin’s/PWA contest), Sue Grafton, Brad Parks, Lachlan Smith, […]
Continue readingFive days and a cross-country plane trip later, I’m still somewhat dazed from winning a Shamus Award at Bouchercon 2014 in Long Beach. The Private Eye Writers of America named Don’t Dare a Dame the Best Indie P.I. Novel of 2013. I feel humbled and very, very happy to receive this sort […]
Continue readingUntil five months ago or so ago when he asked to interview me, I’d never heard of Max Everhart. I predict many people will hear about him now, following publication of his first novel, Go Go Gato. Everhart has crafted a first-rate private eye yarn in Go Go Gato. From the blonde who walks into his office to […]
Continue readingI confess to bias. Just a small one. Not the kind that spawns ugliness. But the fact is, I’ve long resisted trying any P.I. stories that featured a duo of private eyes. The pair always seems to be male-female, and I couldn’t shake an abiding certainty that the female would be window dressing to the […]
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