Prepping the penultimate one-shot for Swords of the Serpentine in the new collection to play on Wednesday. This one's a homage to Pratchett's City Guard. And today I received our next game, Brindlewood Bay, which looks really neat and interesting. Agatha Christie meets #HPLovecraft with PbtA rules!

#ttrpg #crimefic #mystery #fantasy

Looking forward to reading this one! Seven Sisters by Katherine Kovacic sounds excellent 📚 #BooksofMastodon #BooksAndCats #CrimeFic #SevenSisters

Today's #ShakeYourCLZ #random #comicbook generator is instead a #Shadow #pulp with Walter Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant." Lamont Cranston discovers that strange scientific secrets lurk behind a series of prominent murders when "Dead Men Live." Then, Kent Allard and Margo Lane journey to a Caribbean nation to confront a "Dictator of Crime." Cover by George Rozen.

#PulpReprint #PulpFiction #Pulps #TheShadow #TheShadowKnows #LamontCranston #MaxwellGrant #WalterGibson #CrimeFic #MyCollection

9 Literary Classics for the Contemporary Crime Reader

I spent a year after college teaching English in a quiet little town in Moravia. Without Internet, a television with only two channels (one German, the other Czech), and no friends, I did a lot of …

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Hmmm. Raymond Chandler, in his "Twelve Notes on the Mystery Story":

“The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce the artistic job of writing.”

Better stop while I'm ahead! 😂

#writing #CrimeFic #CrimeFiction

My lovely agent, Jenny Brown, took this photo and posted it on her Insta advent calendar, and I've never seen my books looking so festive!

Maybe you know someone who'd love some action and adventure under the tree on Christmas morning...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09RK9S2QF?ref_=dbs_p_pwh_rwt_anx_b_lnk&storeType=ebooks

#books #bookstodon #afghanistan #thriller #crimefic #action @bookstodon

The MacKenzie and Khan series

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The WMG Holiday Spectacular is a fantastic advent calendar of stories--you receive one short story per day, and you never know which one it will be. Even the authors don't know.
So, surprise!
My story, "Larceny's Love Lost and Found," was published as part of the Holiday Spectacular today. 🥰
The story will be free to read on my website for one week only! #crimefic #romanceshorts #hanukkah #family #Mazeldon
http://www.leslieclairewalker.com/for-a-limited-time-only-a-free-hanukkah-story/
For a Limited Time Only: A Free Hanukkah Story

Bright & Dark - Leslie Claire Walker

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Barry Mill was the inspiration for Sandra Ireland's thriller Bone Deep - a fabulous book.

@bookstodon #books #scotland #crimefic

"A. A. Fair" aka Erle Stanley Gardner
Cover Artist: Gerald Gregg

#Caturday #Mystery #Mysteries #DellMapback #CrimeFic #PaperbackCoverArt #VintagePaperbacks @bookstodon

A twisty and engrossing story for all crime thriller fans - check out my review of #StoneColdKilling by author DE White!

And thanks as always to Insta Book Tours for including me on the #blogtour!

https://bookscatsetc.wordpress.com/2022/11/22/book-review-stone-cold-killing/

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Book Review: Stone Cold Killing

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