I’ve just sent out my October 2019 newsletter—including an announcement about my forthcoming story collection with Crippen & Landru: The…
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Category Archives: Review
My March Newsletter
Most of the news in my March newsletter has already been posted here and then pretty widely on social media—Edgars!…
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The Wickeds: On Uncomfortable Reading
Thanks to Liz Mugavero for inviting me to contribute a guest post to The Wickeds. A post last week mentioned…
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Washington Independent Review of Books: Keigo Higashino’s Newcomer
The first thing heard about Newcomer, Keigo Higashino’s newest book in translation, was about it being a novel in stories—right up…
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Lark! The Herald Angels Sing—In Stereo!
A few days ago, when I went to shelve my inscribed copy of Lark! The Herald Angels Sing, Donna Andrews’ latest…
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My December Newsletter
My last quarterly newsletter of the year looks back at some highlights and milestones of 2018 and ahead toward new…
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LitHub: Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s
It was fun to see The Literary Hub excerpt my Washington Independent Review of Books review of Leslie Klinger’s latest book—the…
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The First Two Pages at the Washington Independent Review of Books
For my latest column at the Washington Independent Review of Books, I look back at the last year of hosting…
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I was super-excited when news broke about Leslie Klinger’s latest project: an annotated edition of five key novels of the…
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Dash the Detective… and the Book Critic Too!
You can’t say he didn’t get it honest: Our son Dashiell is both a great reader and a fan of…
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