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Slogging my way through Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley’s an engaging guy.  He’s well-read, well-spoken, and a good public speaker.  Also, he’s kind of an icon in the mystery/crime genre.  His series featuring Easy Rawlins, a black private...

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Friedman, Sears worthy nominees for Best First Novel

Youthful Daniel Friedman I’ve read two of the five nominees for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar for Best First Novel award, and I’ve got to say, it is off to a promising start.  I began my reading...

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Churchill’s Secretary interesting entry in Edgar race

The third debut novel up for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe award for Best First Novel is Susan Elia MacNeal’s Mr. Churchill’s Secretary.  This historical spy thriller reimagines...

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Red Sparrow vs. The Resurrectionist

The race to the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel is heating up – I gave a big thumbs up to former CIA agent Jason Matthew’s debut spy thriller Red Sparrow.   Reviewing,...

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Reconstructing Amelia Next Entry into Edgar Race

Entertainment Weekly said “Like Gone Girl, Reconstructing Amelia should be hailed as one of the best books of the year.”    Wow.  That’s some blurb.  And Reconstructing Amelia has a great – albeit...

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Final Edgar entry: Rage Against The Dying

Last up for the Edgar!  Becky Masterman‘s first novel, Rage Against The Dying, has a unique protagonist:  Brigid Quinn, an aging former FBI agent, who spent her career hunting sexual predators.   She’s...

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The mystery of The Humans

The Mystery Writers of America Best Novel nominees  line-up is six-deep, and I had read five of the six finalists previously.  The Edgar awards will be presented on May 1, so I’ve got time now to...

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Sandrine vs. The Humans

I have a long history with Thomas H. Cook, having been introduced to him in 1996 via his Edgar-award wining novel, The Chatham School Affair.   Wikipedia tells me that he has been nominated for an...

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Rankin’s Ranking for Standing in Another Man’s Grave

The third nominee for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar for Best Novel is, like Thomas H. Cook, no newcomer to the awards scene.   1998 brought a nomination of Black and Blue, an Inspector Rebus...

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Karin Slaughter’s Cop Town Best Novel Nominee

I grabbed another police procedural for my second book to read, review and rank for the Mystery Writers of America‘s Edgar award for Best Novel this year:  Karin Slaughter’s Cop Town.  Slaughter’s a...

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Edgar Nom #3: Luckiest Girl Alive

Uh-oh, the cover says “Gillian Flynn” and it’s an “Instant New York Times Best Seller.”  It seems like ever since Gone Girl, everybody’s trying to hop onto the unreliable narrator train (including, of...

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Gilly MacMillan’s What She Knew

The third finalist for the MWA Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original is Gilly MacMillan’s What She Knew.  It’s a compulsive page-turner of the “oh no, what more can go wrong” variety. The book turns...

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Lost Girls Last Up, Takes LL Edgar

Yep, I called it.  I read and reviewed Heather Young’s The Lost Girls when it come out last year, and prophesied that it would receive an Edgar nom for Best First Novel.  And indeed it did. When I...

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I’m in trouble with Jane Steele

Lyndsay Faye’s novel Jane Steele is a genre-bending page-turner that’s winning accolades from critics and on Amazon.  This is Faye’s second turn at bat for the Best Novel award (her first being The...

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Final finalist Before the Fall

We’re getting down to the wire – the MWA Edgar Awards banquet is just four days away in NYC and I am posting my final review in the read, review, and ranking for the Best Novel category.  I previously...

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Dark Chapter depicts real life

It’s been said that your first book is always an autobiography, however well-fictionalized.  For Winnie Li and Dark Chapter, that truism as literally true – both author and protagonist were raped by an...

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Nominee #2: A Rising Man

After my last post, moaning about historical… the next nominee for the MWA Edgar for Best Novel is Abir Mukherjee’s A Rising Man, set in 1919 Calcutta.   The heat, grime, and colonial culture where the...

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Edgar Nom Provides More Spies!

American Spy was the first nominee I reviewed for the Mystery Writers of America Best First Novel by an American Author… and the second nominee has even more spies!  The Secrets We Kept is Lara...

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Like a Sister: MWA Best Novel Nominee

Author Kellye Garrett has the life experience to write knowledgably about the entertainment industry and the writing credentials to back it up, with two previous award-winning books (which I fully...

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