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where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all c h r o n i c l e Issue #205 January/february 2003 Rue Morgue Press Classic Mysteries This line is designed to bring back into print those books that were favourites of readers between the turn of the century and 1960. All are trade paperback and priced at $39.95 each. The following constitutes our first shipment: Joanna CANNON: (born 1898, died 1961, English). They 131 York Street Rang Up the Police (154pp) was the first Inspector Guy Sydney NSW 2000 Australia Northeast mystery and published in 1939. When murder Ph (02) 9264 3111 strikes in the quiet English countryside, only Inspector Fax(02) 9264 8993 Northeast from Scotland Yard sees the vital clue. www.abbeys.com.au Glynn CARR: (born 1908, English pseudonym for Frank [email protected] Showell Styles). Death on the Milestone Buttress (187pp A division of Abbey's Bookshops Pty Ltd 1951). A Shakespearean actor and a young English woman ABN 86 000 650 975 turn detective while mountain climbing in Wales. The first in the series. KEY Clyde B CLASON: (born 1903, American). The Man from academic Tibet (212pp 1938). The only witness to the murder was the masks of Tibetan gods in this classic locked room mystery. banking Joan COGGIN: (1898-1980, English). Who Killed the Curate? (157pp 1944). The first in the Lady Lupin Quartet. canine detectives Meet Lady Lupin Lorrimer Hastings, the young, lovely, scatterbrained and kindhearted newlywed wife to the vicar clerical of St Marks Parish in Glanville, Sussex. -
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Get a Clue Editor’s Note Molly Weston.....................3 The mission of Sisters in Crime is to promote the Catriona’s Letter professional development and advancement of women crime writers to achieve equality in the industry. Catriona McPherson...............4 Catriona McPherson, President Chapters ............................5 Leslie Budewitz, Vice President Susan C. Shea, Secretary How Did You Become a SinC Member ..8 Lori Roy, Treasurer Library Liaison The Peace Corps Affected My Writing Carolyn Dubiel, Barbara Fister, Monitoring Chair Carolyn Mulford ..................9 Clare O’Donohue, Bookstore Liaison Martha Reed, Chapter Liaison Everything in Moderation Simon Wood, Publicity Laura Brennan ...................10 Frankie Bailey, At Large Julie Hennrikus, At Large Beth’s Bits G. M. Malliet, At Large Beth Wasson ....................13 Hank Phillippi Ryan, At Large Laura DiSilverio, Immediate Past President Crimelandia ........................13 Molly Weston, inSinC Editor Laurel Anderson, inSinC Proofreader SinC Monitoring Project Report 2014 Gavin Faulkner, inSinC Proofreader Barbara Fister ...................14 Marisa Young, inSinC Proofreader Sarah Glass, Web Maven/Social Media A Lost Sister Restored: New Vera Caspary Reprints Beth Wasson, Executive Director A. B. Emrys ......................16 PO Box 442124 Lawrence, KS 66044-2124 Best Source for Inspiration: The Quickening [email protected] Katherine Ramsland, PhD .........18 785.842.1325 (P) • 785.856.6314 (F) Getting the Facts Straight ©2015 Sisters in Crime International Leslie Budewitz ..................20 We Love Libraries! Andrea Smith....................22 Awards & Nominations inSinc is the official publication of Sisters in Crime International and is published four times a year. • One-year dues are $40 for professional US and Canada writers and $35 Gay Toltl Kinman .................24 for non-professionals (add $5 for other countries). -
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“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #223 August 2004 Meet the author ALSO BY KARIN SLAUGHTER... Karin Slaughter Thurs 26 August 6pm - 7pm Blindsighted... Light refreshments will be served (Pb 19.95) NOMINATED for the Barry Award for Best First Novel and the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel. SHORTLISTED for the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for Best First Crime Novel of 2001 VOTED one of the best mysteries of the year by the Washington Post, the Florida Sun-Sentinel, Book Sense and Deadly Pleasures magazine. Kisscut... (Pb 19.95) "A tension-filled narrative with plenty of plot twists… This is just the ticket for readers who like their crime Indelible... fiction on the dark side." by Karin Slaughter (Pb 19.95) - Booklist When medical examiner Sara Linton "With Blindsighted, Karin Slaughter left a great many and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver take a mystery writers looking anxiously over their shoulders. trip away from the small town of With Kisscut, she leaves most of them behind. This is a Heartsdale -- an escape from all the serious attempt to deal with difficult subject matter, and it pressures which complicate their succeeds brilliantly." relationship -- it should be a - John Connolly straightforward weekend at the beach. But they decide to take a "Karin Slaughter is an impressive new landmark on the detour via Jeffrey's home town and thriller map." things go violently wrong when - Val McDermid Jeffrey's best friend Robert shoots dead an intruder who breaks into his house. -
BOOKNEWS from ISSN 1056–5655, © the Poisoned Pen, Ltd
BOOKNEWS from ISSN 1056–5655, © The Poisoned Pen, Ltd. 4014 N. Goldwater Blvd. Volume 27, Number 4 Scottsdale, AZ 85251 April Booknews 2015 480-947-2974 [email protected] tel (888)560-9919 http://poisonedpen.com As usual, April showers us with books and authors… AUTHORS ARE SIGNING… Some Events will be webcast at http://new.livestream.com/poisonedpen. THURSDAY APRIL 2 7:00 PM TUESDAY APRIL 14 7:00 PM James Carlos Blake signs The House of Wolfe (Grove $24) 3rd Hallie Ephron signs Night, Night, Sleep Tight (Morrow $26.99) Border Noir THURSDAY APRIL 16 7:00 PM FRIDAY APRIL 3 7:00 PM Philip Kerr signs Lady from Zagreb (Putnam $26.95) Bernie Shona Patel interviews debut author MJ Carter Guenther #10! MJ Carter signs The Strangler Vine (Putnam $26.95) First Kerr also appears April 15 6:30 PM at the Glendale Library Mystery Club Pick set in India under the Raj Patel is the author of one of our top two bestselling paperbacks, FRIDAY APRIL 17 7:00 PM Teatime for the Firefly ($15.95) — the other is Martin Walker’s Stuart Woods signs Hot Pursuit (Putnam $27.95) Stone Bruno, Chief of Police ($15.95) Barrington #33 MONDAY APRIL 6 7:00 PM Tartan Day Party SATURDAY APRIL 18 10:30 AM Book Launch for Kearsley who will chat with Diana Gabaldon Croak and Dagger discusses Deb Crombie’s Necessary as Blood Susanna Kearsley signs A Desperate Fortune (Sourcebooks ($13.99) $16.99) The Jacobite Court in exile in 18th Century France SATURDAY APRIL 18 2:00 PM Gabaldon will appear only for the conversation and will not be Mary Doria Russell signs Epitaph (Harper -
What Is a Cozy?
WHAT IS A COZY? by KATHERINE HANSEN CLARK Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation Adviser: Dr. William H. Marling Department of English CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY May 2008 CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES We hereby approve the thesis/dissertation of _____________________________________________________ candidate for the ______________________degree *. (signed)_______________________________________________ (chair of the committee) ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ (date) _______________________ *We also certify that written approval has been obtained for any proprietary material contained therein. Copyright © 2008 by Katherine Hansen Clark All rights reserved To my father, Col. Claude L. Clark, who introduced me to the stories of Poe and stories about Sherlock Holmes, and to my mother, Judith Dunn Clark, who had me read everything else i Table of Contents List of Tables ................................................................................................................... ii List of Figures................................................................................................................. iii Acknowledgements........................................................................................................ -
The Sisters in Crime Quarterly June 2020
inSinC the Sisters in Crime quarterly June 2020 inSinC • June 2020 • Page 1 Mission Statement Promote the ongoing advancement, recognition, and professional development of women crime writers. inSinC Board Members The Sisters in Crime Quarterly • June 2020 Lori Rader – Day, President S.G. Wong, Vice President inSinc is the official publication of Sisters Faye Snowden, Secretary Jacki York, Treasurer in Crime International and is published Tracee de Hahn, Membership Development Liaison four times a year. One – year dues are Kellye Garret, Member at Large $50 for professional US and Canada writ- Stephanie Gayle, Grants/ACA Coordinator ers and $40 for non – professionals. Two Chris Goff, Education Liaison – year dues are $100 and $80; lifetime, Vanessa Lille, Publicity Chair Debra H. Goldstein, Monitoring Chair $500 and $400. Address and all other Shari Randall, Library Liaison changes can be made by members at our Barb Ross, Web Liaison website. Alec Peche, Chapter Liaison If you do not use a computer or need a Sherry Harris, Immediate Past President user name, please contact Next Wave Next Wave Group 550M Ritchie Hwy #271 Group at the address at left. Information 833.492.7463 • 410.544.4640 Fax in inSinC is submitted or reprinted from ©2019 Sisters in Crime International sources listed in each article. Where re- inSinC quired, permission to reprint has been Molly Weston, Editor granted and noted. SinC does not investi- Marcia Preston, Proofreader gate each submission independently and Margie Bunting, Proofreader Wrona Gail, Proofreader articles in no way constitute an endorse- Priscilla Gruenewald, Proofreader ment of products or services offered. No Merrilee Robsons, Proofreader material may be reprinted without written Arthur Vidro, Proofreader permission from Sisters in Crime; contact Marisa Young, Proofreader Molly Weston. -
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R AT I N G E B 2 L 2 E C Y E A R S IInnSSiinnCC The Sisters in Crime Newsletter Volume XXI • Number 2 June 2008 BHy Jaonicwe Kapltan o Creategreatastory. Great StoryJustice Sandra Day O’Connor recently wrote an ar - I started writing my first mystery when I was 1. Find Your Passion: I often can tell if a Parade ticle for Parade about the dangers of politics affect - nine. My heroine, age ten, figured out who had article is going to be a success just by listening to ing the judiciary. It’s hard to think of anyone who stolen her mother’s pearl and diamond necklace the writer talk. If she feels genuine passion for the would know the topic better. Given her status, while sitting in a backyard treehouse. Then — high subject, there’s a good chance I’ll be moved and ex - knowledge and position, she might have simply drama — she looked down and saw the bad guy cited by the story she writes. The same is true with a stated her position and concerns. Instead, she standing beneath her, mystery. You need to care deeply about your char - wrote an article well supported with specific exam - waving a gun. It would acters and the story they’re living or it will never ples. A few weeks later, the story was quoted during have been an excellent come alive. a hearing on Capitol Hill and a Congressman urged climax, except I had no Recently, bestselling author James Patterson Justice Scalia to read it. -
Reviewers Unleashed by Molly Weston
iinSSininC the Sisters in Crime Quarterly Vol. 24, No.2 Reviewers unleashed by Molly Weston eviews of mysteries written by women— Award for Best Novelette for “Rearview Win- include women in an equal or disproportion- or rather the dearth of them formed the dow” in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. ately favorable manner…For the subgenre…I foundation of Sisters in Crime. Our love best, hardboiled/noir, men still outnumber R Sarah Weinman (offonatangent.tumblr.com/) review monitoring project has remained front women. So when a female noir writer comes began her blog, “Confessions of an Idiosyn- and center for years, and authors talk about the along, this is a godsend…” cratic Mind,” in 2003, when “literary blogs were topic at every gathering. being noticed by book editors at various news- Speaking of subgenre To get a look at the other side of the subject, papers.” Since then, her reviews and columns Cogdill “gravitate(s) more toward hardboiled, we polled five well-known reviewers to ask have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the but I love it all.” Taylor agrees. “I’m…as happy how they choose books, if gender bias in Wall Street Journal, the National Post, Maclean’s, with a cozy as with hardboiled or noir.” reviewing is real, and other questions. The Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, the Ephron’s favorites? “Don’t have one.” Forbus Barnes & Noble Review, the Philadelphia Inquir- How they came to review in the first place puts confesses, “I like gritty; I like social issues: and erer, the Daily Beast, and others. -
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Say Aloha to Murder Left Coast Crime Hawaii March 7-12, 2009 FIVE STAR part of Cengage Learning Congratulates our authors on their well-reviewed books! RETIREMENT HOMES NOX DORMIENDA: A Long DEATH OF AN OBNOXIOUS ARE MURDER Night for Sleeping TOURIST by Maria Hudgins by Mike Befeler by Kelli Stanley “Dotsy Lamb and her friend Lettie are on a “Octogenarian Paul Jacobson, who suffers “Readers who like Roman-era mysteries, tour of Italy when the most hated member of from short-term memory loss, discovers a body like those by Steven Saylor or Ruth Downie their tour group, Meg Bauer, is murdered in her stuffed in the trash chute of his retirement home. (Medicus), may enjoy this.” Florence hotel room . another death soon has Dotsy poking her nose where she should not and Jacobson’s running narrative is both humorous — Library Journal and heartbreaking. A quick read for those who the reader trying to guess who did it. A nicely like cozies peopled with elderly characters. The “First-timer Stanley is sure-footed and written traditional mystery.” Hawaiian setting adds to the story.” enthusiastic about history (as witness her — Library Journal glossary and bibliography) and crafts a — Library Journal satisfyingly intricate puzzle.” 978-1-59414-467-7 $25.95 Available 978-1-59414-515-5 $25.95 Available — Kirkus DEATH OF A LOVABLE GEEK “What a series this is going to be! Imagine Ellis THE LANDLORD’S Peters re-written by Elmore Leonard and you’ll by Maria Hudgins BLACK-EYED DAUGHTER have some notion of this gem of a novel—and it “An archaeological dig in the Scottish Highlands moves like a gladiator on speed.” seems an unlikely spot for murder. -
The Sisters in Crime Newsletter Volume XX • Number 4 December 2007 Bring on the Buffalo by Kate White Eye
InSinC The Sisters in Crime Newsletter Volume XX • Number 4 December 2007 Bring on the Buffalo By Kate White eye. Once I was out of college and working in in Cosmo History: You’ll Want to Bitch Slap Some things just seem to go together natu- New York City as an editorial assistant, I found These Jerks.” rally: good books and rainy afternoons; popcorn a short item in Esquire magazine titled “The The mantra has been a godsend for my writ- and movies; cold steak in a salad with a tart Ten Best Mysteries Ever Written.” It listed books ing too. I have a tendency to hold back with vinaigrette (that’s an old Rex Stout recipe, by like The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, and The my writing, be a little tentative about going big the way). Franchise Affair. Inspired, I read them all in a and bold (I doubt I’m the only one) and this And then there are the combos that fall month and became hooked. Not only was I a mantra always encourages me to ask myself: Is completely flator seem to make no sense what- mystery junkie, though. I decided that some day this first sentence or chapter ending or charac- soever — like the two things I do for a living: I would have to write my own. ter as exciting or scintillating or compelling as run Cosmopolitan magazine and write murder When I was the editor of Redbook and my possible? Lately I’ve become addicted to the mysteries. On weekdays I stay busy composing kids were sleeping a little later on weekend morn- Inspector Ian Rutledge series by Charles Todd.