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Aside from book reviews, I explore topics of interest in the mystery genre.
Edgar Award Nominees Announced for Mystery Fiction  Here are the nominees for this year's Edgar Allan Poe Award for Mystery Fiction! Genre-Blending in Mystery Fiction  Genre-blending releases writers from outmoded traditions and enables great creativity. Great Titles Revisited  More fabulous titles that got past the marketing department! Hot Fuzz, a Funny British Police Movie  Nicholas, a British constable obsessed with job excellence, gets transferred by jealous superiors to England's sleepiest village where, to his relief, trouble manages to find him! How To Write a Great Title  Great titles can make a song, a movie, a website, or a novel unforgettable! Keep a Mystery Book Journal!  Keeping a book journal makes you a better reader, and preserves a record of how books impact your life.
One Year of Reading  Here's a list of everything I managed to read in one year - a little bit of everything. Self-Published Mystery Novels  Print-on-demand authors do everything themselves: the edits, the cover art, and hardest of all - the promotion! Sign Up For the Mystery Books Newsletter  No spam, your email stays private, and you get only what you want: Mystery Books news. Spy Thrillers Can Satisfy The Mystery Fan  Mystery purists sometimes shun the spy thriller because of its de-emphasis on crime and puzzles. But it has a lot of elements in common with classic mysteries. Start Your Mystery Book Journal Now!  I wish I'd started sooner than 2003. Here are my best reads that year, and what they later taught me about mysteries. Ten Most Memorable Mysteries I Read in 2007  Here are ten mysteries (some published in earlier years) that stood out for one reason or another as I look back on what I read in 2007. This Year's Mystery Awards!  The winners for this year's Edgar, Agatha, and Dilys Awards for Mystery Fiction! Top 10 Places I Visited in Mystery Fiction during 2007  Travel in your imagination via mystery fiction to strange locations! Typical Mystery Fan?  Who is the typical Mystery Fan? A cigarette-smoker? A rebel? A ... Welcome to the Mystery Books Monthly Book Club!  What could possibly be more fun??? What Makes a Good Book Critic?  What makes a good book critic? Can bloggers be just as insightful as professional reviewers? Which Books Should Win The Edgar?  Which of the outstanding nominees for this year's Edgar Awards should win? Which Kids Like Mysteries?  Be proud of your kid! An interest in mysteries can reveal many good character traits.
Why Mystery Readers Need Series Lists  Letīs face it mystery fiction is series-oriented. You might need to know the books in a series and their proper order. You might be searching for mysteries of certain types or on certain themes.
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