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“I have a house. It opens on to other times.” Have...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:15:16 -0400

“I have a house. It opens on to other times.”

Have you seen our book trailer for Lauren Beukes’s The Shining Girls?

Preorder It: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million | Indiebound | Other Retailers

TNT Developing Shows Based on Nicholas Sparks, Marcia Clark, Ross McDonald Characters » Read the Screen

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:02:02 -0400

TNT Developing Shows Based on Nicholas Sparks, Marcia Clark, Ross McDonald Characters » Read the Screen:

Guilt by Association: Based on the debut novel by Marcia Clark, lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson trial, this project centers on Rachel Knight, a gutsy Deputy District Attorney in the Special Trials Unit of the D.A.’s office for L.A. County. She works closely with a tough-as-nails female LAPD detective named Bailey Keller and a stylish female prosecutor named Toni LaCollette, both of whom routinely crash at Rachel’s place.

Woo hoo! Read more about Guilt by Association.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 16:02:47 -0400

“The House has been waiting for him. It called him here...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:30:21 -0400

“The House has been waiting for him. It called him here for a purpose.”

—from The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

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The Boston Globe’s Big Picture blog shows us scenes of the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:35:13 -0400

The Boston Globe’s Big Picture blog shows us scenes of the perilous US-Mexico border, where a significant portion of Richard Lange’s Angel Baby takes place.

"From the beginning I knew that I wanted one particular death in the book to stand out, to resonate,..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:02:06 -0400

“From the beginning I knew that I wanted one particular death in the book to stand out, to resonate, to hurt. For inspiration, I returned to a few literary “last moments” that had moved me over the years.”

- Read Richard Lange’s list of literary last moments and then pick up a copy of Angel Baby to figure out which scene these moments inspired.

From Brain Pickings’s feature on The Letters of Raymond...

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:45:00 -0400

From Brain Pickings’s feature on The Letters of Raymond Chandler. Totally worth reading the article—and the letters themselves!—in full.

"If you’ve stood in MacArthur Park surrounded by an evangelist reciting scripture through a..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:32:00 -0400

“If you’ve stood in MacArthur Park surrounded by an evangelist reciting scripture through a megaphone, eaten in a pupuseria with plastic floral tablecloths covering its tables or spent a day at a weathered miniature golf/arcade fun zone in the suburbs, you will recognize Lange’s Los Angeles.”

- Jigsaw Magazine interviews Richard Lange, author of the newly released thriller Angel Baby.

So based on this characterization, how many of you recognize Lange’s LA?

littlebrown: Luz is on the run, trying to find the daughter she...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:03:03 -0400

littlebrown:

Luz is on the run, trying to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may die trying, especially if her husband,El Principe, a key player in a high-powered drug cartel, catches up with her. Read more about her story here.

Mark Billingham takes a minute to introduce The Demands, which...

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:26:27 -0400

Mark Billingham takes a minute to introduce The Demands, which is available as an eBook for just $2.99 at the following retailers:

Kindle | iBookstore

littlebrown: Keep reading this historical thriller that...

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:02:01 -0400

littlebrown:

Keep reading this historical thriller that imagines essayist Thomas De Quincey as both a detective and a murder suspect here.

geekdadblog: Fiction Meets Geek History With YOU It’s not...

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:03:35 -0400

geekdadblog:

Fiction Meets Geek History With YOU

It’s not often that I find myself personally relating to a novel’s primary character, but Austin…

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“All of us geek dads who grew up watching computer games grow and mature… well, this is one of our stories.”

Tijuanasaurus Rex | Mulholland Books

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:51:46 -0400

Tijuanasaurus Rex | Mulholland Books:

Richard Lange evocatively describes the Tijuana that inspired him to write Angel Baby.

If you’ve seen our book trailer for The Shining Girls,...

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:02:45 -0400

If you’ve seen our book trailer for The Shining Girls, then you’ll understand why this is a “special” card in our companion card game.

Raymond Chandler and Taki (Image: Venture Galleries) And from...

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:01:49 -0400

Raymond Chandler and Taki (Image: Venture Galleries)

And from Chandler’s letters:

Our cat is growing positively tyrannical. If she finds herself alone anywhere she emits blood curdling yells until somebody comes running. She sleeps on a table in the service porch and now demands to be lifted up and down from it. She gets warm milk about eight o’clock at night and starts yelling for it about 7.30. When she gets it she drinks a little, goes off and sits under a chair, then comes and yells all over again for someone to stand beside her while has another go at the milk. When we have company she looks them over and decides almost instantly if she likes them. If she does she strolls over and plops down on the floor far enough away to make it a chore to pet her. If she doesn’t like them, she sits in the middle of the living room, casts a contemptuous glance around, and proceeds to wash her backside.

If I could, I would make this post a series and tag it Mystery Cats.

Woman Buys Rare Game Worth $15,000 From Goodwill Store For Only $7.99

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:02:47 -0400

Woman Buys Rare Game Worth $15,000 From Goodwill Store For Only $7.99:

…thus proving that old video games and the novels written about them are worth their weight in gold.

Twitter Town Hall with Lauren Beukes

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:01:56 -0400

Twitter Town Hall with Lauren Beukes:

Here’s a compilation of the fab #ShiningGirls Q&A with Lauren Beukes this morning. Big thanks to Exclusive Books

Lauren tweets all about writing, publishing, touring, and generally living the glamorous/exhausting life of an author!

If you’re reading along with Short Story Month, this...

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:02:57 -0400

If you’re reading along with Short Story Month, this anthology curated by the Mystery Writers of America will come in handy. If you’d like to win a free copy, all you have to do is comment on this blog post with your favorite mystery short story.

Gazalapalooza Interviews David Morrell, author of Murder as a Fine Art

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:01:55 -0400

Gazala: What are books for?
Morrell: Let’s focus on fiction. Its vividness can take us out of our every-day lives and spark our imaginations. If our lives are dull, we are transported to a more interesting place. If our lives are burdened with pain, a novel can provide distraction. Beyond that, the characters in novels can help us to understand human nature, which is a form of teaching as well as delighting. Important novels change the way we perceive the world.

We love short stories so much we made an advent calendar full of...

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:01:47 -0400

We love short stories so much we made an advent calendar full of ‘em.