
German Beer Halls and Murder
“Be ready for dinner at 7:00,” my new German friend told me. “Where are we going?” “Hofbrauhaus,” I was told. A huge beer hall where I could get Wiener Schnitzel and drink pitchers of Paulaner. Sounded good […]
“Be ready for dinner at 7:00,” my new German friend told me. “Where are we going?” “Hofbrauhaus,” I was told. A huge beer hall where I could get Wiener Schnitzel and drink pitchers of Paulaner. Sounded good […]
Back when I was a beat cop working 999 Response (911 calls) in Liverpool, England, I had a partner named Jimmy. Jimmy was one of those old school cops who had joined the job as […]
Trouble is the engine of fiction, and a novel set during World War II has the advantage of plenty of trouble. Soldiers, spies, diplomats, refugees, commandos, secret police, prisoners of war: they are all there, […]
I suppose I should’ve seen it coming. After all, I’m the one who wrote a book about a hitman who hits hitmen. It’s no surprise folks want to know which hitman novels inspired it. The […]
When Strand asked me to name what I considered to be the top ten spooky mysteries, I had to step back and look at what spooky meant to me. As the word spooky crosses my lips, I literally get the chills. […]
With fall in the air and Halloween just around the corner, what better way to settle into the season than with a stack of new mysteries and thrillers? This month’s assortment offers up plenty of […]
Sixteen years ago, my first book appeared on the mystery scene. And Then She Was Gone was a sad tale of a lost child that had anything but a happy ending. My second novel, Overkill, concerned a school […]
Dr. Watson on Sherlock HolmesA Californian writes as a Victorian physician in her new Sherlock Holmes Adventure – ART IN THE BLOOD. Of the many challenges faced in writing as Dr. John Watson, perhaps the […]
Murdoch Mysteries, Season 8 Acorn Media 2015 $59.99 Based on the novels by Maureen Jennings, Murdoch Mysteries is a historical crime series set in Toronto. By the eighth season, it is in the early 1900s, and the […]
Old Phrases Never Die My eighteen-month-old granddaughter, Riley, recently spent three nights in the hospital fighting a serious bout with asthma. For two of those days I watched my daughter sit on the hospital bed, […]
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