Compendium of Mystery News 070626

Today's compendium of recently published mystery news articles:

• Hallie Ephron of the Boston Globe reviews three new mystery books.

• The Associated Press is reporting that actor-comedian Richard Belzer has signed with Simon & Schuster to write two mystery books featuring himself as a TV performer caught up in his own plot.

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Mystery Book Review: Earthly Delights by Kerry Greenwood

Mysterious Reviews, mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, has written a review of Earthly Delights by Kerry Greenwood. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website.

Earthly Delights by Kerry Greenwood
A Corinna Chapman Mystery

Poisoned Pen Press (Hardcover)
ISBN-10: 1-59058-393-0 (1590583930)
ISBN-13: 978-1-59058-393-7 (9781590583937)
Publication Date: June 2007
List Price: $24.95

Synopsis (from the publisher): Corinna Chapman was once a high profile accountant and banker. That is until she walked out on the money market and her dismissive and unpleasant husband James, threw aside her briefcase, and doffed her kitten heels forever. Now she is a baker working in her own business, Earthly Delights, in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Australia.

Corinna is living in an eccentric building on the Roman model called Insula, which has eight stories, sixteen apartments, and a lot of strange and interesting people. These include a retired professor of classics, Dionysius Monk; a Dutch gardener named Trudi; Mr. and Mrs. Pemberthy and their rotten little doggie, Traddles; a pair of disgustingly thin, would-be soapie stars Goss and Kylie; and a jobbing witch, Meroe of The Sibyl's Cave.

Corinna is quite content with her cat Horatio and her shop until a junkie falls half dead on her grate, a gorgeous sabra stalks along her alley and tells her that she is beautiful, and she starts receiving threatening letters accusing her of being a scarlet woman.

Then it is Goths, lost girls, fraud, late nights, nerds, and beautiful slaves. Life for Corinna has suddenly become interesting. And she still needs to get her bread out in time for the morning rush.

Review: Kerry Greenwood, author of the popular Phryne Fisher mysteries, introduces a new series featuring Melbourne (Australia) bakery owner Corinna Chapman in Earthly Delights.

It is probably inevitable and no doubt unfair to compare this new series introducing Corinna Chapman to Greenwood's long-running series featuring Phryne Fisher. But Greenwood seems to invite such comparison. The plot isn't important in Earthly Delights which is for the most part completely forgettable; the author's focus here is on character development. She seems determined to portray Corinna Chapman as the anti-Phryne Fisher.

Where Phyrne came from a humble background to become a member of the Melbourne aristocracy, Corinna has abandoned the world of high finance (and no doubt high income) to toil in a bakery. Phryne is sophisticated and stylish; Corinna is dowdy. Phryne is a woman of action; Corinna seems content to allow events to come to her. They do have something in common: they're both terribly opinionated. But while this trait works in Phyrne's favor, it makes Corinna seem a bit petulant.

It's all well and good to create a new character for a series different from the one readers are familiar with. But Greenwood has extended this comparison between the two to the plots of their respective series. The Phyrne Fisher mysteries are thrilling adventures whereas Earthly Delights is slow and cumbersome and dull. There are, for example, entire chapters that seem to be dedicated to describing the difficulties in managing a one-woman bakery and the art of making bread.

Corinna Chapman has the potential to be an interesting character, but she needs something to challenge her, a puzzle to solve. Maybe the next book in the series will provide a mystery worthy of her, and the reader's, attention.

Special thanks to Poisoned Pen Press for providing an ARC of Earthly Delights for this review.

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Mysteries on TV: Miami Vice, Monk, Poirot, and Psych

Mystery television series being released this week on DVD:

Miami Vice, Season 5 starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as Miami Vice Squad detectives James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs.

The series ran for 5 seasons on NBC from September 1984 through July 1989.

This DVD set includes the 20 episodes from the 5th and final season on 5 disks. Also included is an episode that was never shown during the series run on NBC, but on the USA Network in January, 1990.

Monk, Season 5 starred Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk, the San Francisco obsessive-compulsive police detective on leave who acts as a consultant to the department.

The series first aired on the USA Network in July 2002 and remains in production today.

This DVD set includes 16 episodes from the 5th season on 4 disks. The noir episode "Mr. Monk and the Leper" is available in two versions, black-and-white and color.

Psych, Season 1 starred James Roday as Shawn Spencer who, with his keen eye for detail and photographic memory, convinces the police that he has psychic abilities and can assist them in solving crimes.

The series first aired on the USA Network in July 2006 and remains in production today.

This DVD set includes 15 episodes from the 1st season on 4 disks.

Agatha Christie's Poirot, The Classic Collection 2 starred David Suchet as the brilliant Belgian sleuth.

This DVD set includes 9 made-for-television movies on 10 disks; the 10th disk is a documentary on Agatha Christie. The movie mysteries are: The ABC Murders, Death in the Clouds, Dumb Witness, Hercule Poirot's Christmas, Hickory Dickory Dock, Murder on the Links, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, One Two Buckle My Show, and Peril at End House.

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Mystery Godoku: Weekly Puzzle for June 25, 2007

A new Mystery Godoku Puzzle has been created by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is available on our website.

Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).

This week's letters and mystery clue: A E H L M N O S T. Honor Hartman introduces amateur sleuth Emma Diamond in this Bridge Club mystery (9 letters).

New! We now have our puzzles in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.

Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.

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Compendium of Mystery News 070624

Today's compendium of recently published mystery news articles:

• The Times-Picayune is reporting that filming on Black Water Transit, adapted from the crime novel of the same name by Carsten Stroud, has begun in New Orleans.

• The July issue of the free online Southern Book Review has an interview with Shamus Award winning author David Fulmer.

• The Colorado Springs Gazette provides some advice from agents, editors and authors to writers who harbor the dream of getting published.

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Mystery Book Review: Death Game by Cheryl Swanson

Mysterious Reviews, mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, has written a review of Death Game by Cheryl Swanson. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website.

Death Game by Cheryl Swanson
A Cooper O'Brien Mystery

Zumaya Publications (Trade Paperback)
ISBN-10: 1-55410-325-6 (1554103258)
ISBN-13: 978-1-55410-325-5 (9781554103258)
Publication Date: November 2006
List Price: $14.99

Synopsis (from the publisher): Jimmie O'Brien is a boy with a wounded soul and a dangerous secret. Haunted by his violent father's searing legacy, Jimmie is defiant, a borderline delinquent. And then, one night in San Francisco, when Jimmie is filmed doing something unspeakable ...

Jimmie's sister, with her background in big money filmmaking, is no stranger to betrayal, seduction and intrigue. But Cooper is soon in territory she never dreamed of treading. One boy is dead; her brother is missing. Drawn into an international war of nerves, skill and murder, she finds herself pitted against one of the most fearsome men on earth.

As the death game closes in, the O'Brien family's survival hinges on a hair trigger. And the trap that is about to be sprung aims at far greater game.

Review: Cheryl Swanson's debut mystery, Death Game, introduces computer graphics expert Cooper O'Brien in a tale of international intrigue that falls just short of being a first-rate thriller.

Stephen Ludlow, the son of a wealthy and powerful businessman, has been murdered, shot by someone caught on a surveillance camera. When the killer is identified as Cooper's younger brother Jimmie, she refuses to believe it. Though Jimmie's had some emotional problems, Cooper is convinced, despite the evidence, that he couldn't be involved in murder. As she begins to untangle the threads that led Jimmie to be on the Ludlow yacht the night Stephen was murdered, she discovers a terrorist operation that threatens the lives of thousands of people in the San Francisco Bay area.

Swanson is a gifted storyteller, but she has tried to incorporate far too much material into Death Game. There are two gripping plotlines here but the links between them are at best tenuous and they probably would have been better told in separate books.

First there's the videotape of her brother Jimmie shooting Stephen Ludlow. Cooper is a computer graphics expert, and the situation seems perfect for her to use her skills to clear her brother's name. Swanson establishes the relationships between all the principal characters and introduces how increasingly realistic environments are required for advanced video game development. Could the murder have simply been a stage for a video game gone horribly awry? Did someone replace the images on the surveillance camera to frame Jimmie? If so, why? Death Game seems to go in this direction for a while when the plot abruptly and somewhat inexplicably transitions to something else entirely.

That something else is related to the visually arresting cover that depicts a burning Golden Gate Bridge. It's probably not giving away too much to note that the secondary plot in Death Game involves a terrorist organization's plans to blow it up. The how and why, and Cooper's involvement in uncovering their plans, makes for compelling reading. But the ties between the terrorist plot and the murder of Stephen Ludlow seem particularly strained, if not implausible, resulting in a less than satisfactory conclusion to this ambitious literary effort.

Swanson provides Cooper O'Brien with a few tantalizing attributes in Death Game that don't get much attention here. A more tightly plotted sequel would not only be welcome by readers but also give her the opportunity to explore these characteristics in more depth.

Special thanks to Cheryl Swanson for providing a copy of Death Game for this review.

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Compendium of Mystery News 070623

Today's compendium of recently published mystery news articles:

• Marcel Berlins profiles crime writer Jasper Fford for The Times.

• Christopher Bantick talks to award-winning mystery author Michael Robotham in The Courier Mail.

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Press Release: Library of Congress Announces 2007 National Book Festival

WASHINGTON, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2007 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by Mrs. Laura Bush, will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 29, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 7th and 14th streets (rain or shine). The festival is free and open to the public.

"This will be the seventh year of this extraordinary celebration of the joy of reading and the creativity of America's writers and illustrators," said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. "The National Book Festival brings authors and readers together to share the stories that touch their minds and hearts. Tens of thousands of book lovers see firsthand how reading changes lives and how our country, its citizens and its libraries promote reading in imaginative and inspiring ways."

"The National Book Festival welcomes all Americans to the National Mall to celebrate reading and meet with some of America's most-loved authors from across the country," said Mrs. Bush. "Readers of all ages can discover the joys of new books and fall in love again with old favorites."

This year about 70 well-known authors, illustrators and poets will talk about their books in the following pavilions: Children; Teens & Children; Fiction & Fantasy; Mysteries & Thrillers; History & Biography; Home & Family; and Poetry. Festivalgoers can have books signed by their favorite authors, and children can meet ever-popular storybook and television characters and NBA/WNBA players appearing on the festival grounds throughout the day.

In the Mystery & Thrillers pavillion, sponsored by The Amend Group, authors scheduled to appear include David Baldacci, Stephen L. Carter, Deborah Crombie, Brian Haig, Carolyn Hart, Stephen Hunter, David Ignatius, J. A. Jance, Lisa Scottoline, and Daniel Silva.

Read the entire press release here.

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Compendium of Mystery News 070622

Today's compendium of recently published mystery news articles:

• Lev Grossman reviews Black and Blue-Blooded by Stephen Carter on Time.com.

• Fisherwoman and mystery author Linda Greenlaw is profiled by Emily Young.

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Mystery Book Review: Dead Copy by Kit Frazier

Mysterious Reviews, mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, has written a review of Dead Copy by Kit Frazier. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website.

Dead Copy by Kit Frazier
A Cauley MacKinnon Mystery

Midnight Ink (Trade Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-7387-0959-X (073870959X)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7387-0959-8 (9780738709598)
Publication Date: May 2007
List Price: $13.95

Synopsis (from the publisher): Twentysomething Cauley MacKinnon is dying to escape the obituary beat and become a real reporter for the Austin Sentinel. Her best chance at a front-page scoop disappeared when she got too close to a case and almost got killed. Cauley also managed to fall for the smoking-hot FBI agent assigned to protect her.

When Special Agent Tom Logan shows up asking for a fake obituary to make a key trial witness disappear, Cauley jumps at the chance to help. After all, she's still watching his dog Tahoe although maybe its the other way around.

Caught in the crossfire on the courthouse steps, Cauley sees the murder of the man whose death she already helped fake.

Now someone is making it clear that they don't want Cauley getting any closer to the case unless she wants to wind up on the obituary page herself.

Review: Dead Copy is the second mystery by Kit Frazier to feature spirited obituary writer Cauley MacKinnon who's looking for any chance to prove she can be a credible journalist.

An opportunity to do just that comes by way of FBI agent Tom Logan who asks her to write an obituary for an informant who is still alive. They want him to disappear until the trial at which time he can give his testimony regarding two mob gangs, one in Austin and one just south of the border in Mexico. The day of the trial, and before he can testify, the "dead" man is gunned down between two US marshals on the steps of the courthouse. Cauley witnesses the murder and sees the shooters leave. Knowing she identify the killers, she is sent a canary stabbed to death with one of her own knives. The note in the box makes it perfectly clear what would happen to her if she sings. Someone out there wants Cauley to know they are watching and stay away from this case. Cauley, being the impetuous person she is, decides to press forward to find the person or persons who want her dead. At her side is her adopted search-and-rescue dog, Marlowe.

Frazier does a terrific job of allowing the reader to connect with Cauley MacKinnon. She is not a wonder woman and knows her own limitations. When there's a job to be done, she ponders over it for a few minutes then seeks out the most suitable friends or co-workers to help her. Dead Copy is written with a light touch, melding several touching scenes with others that include lively banter between Cauley and her friends and enemies. It's a good mystery wrapped around an exciting love story. Or maybe the other way around.

And then there's Marlowe. What a sweet, talented dog he is!

Special thanks to guest reviewer Betty of The Betz Review for contributing her review of Dead Copy and to Midnight Ink for providing a copy of the book for this review.

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Mystery Bestsellers for June 22, 2007

A list of the top ten mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending June 22, 2007 has been posted on the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books website.

No surprises this week as the eagerly anticipated 13th (or 15th, depending on how you're counting) mystery in the Stephanie Plum series is published: Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich. According to the publisher, the New Jersey bounty hunter finds herself in her most dangerour, hilarious and hottest chase yet. Publishers Weekly calls the book "rollicking" and states, "With the author's usual cast of eccentric side characters-everything from a taxidermist with a penchant for bombs to a grave-robbing tax man-Evanovich proves once again that Stephanie Plum and her entourage are here to stay."

Also new this week on the Barnes&Noble.com list: Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett, the 3rd mystery to feature Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep.

We've upgraded our website to allow you to easily purchase any bestselling mystery book featured on our site over the past 8 months. Let us know what you think!

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Compendium of Mystery News 070621

Today's compendium of recently published mystery news articles:

Otto Penzler critiques recently published mysteries on the New York Sun.

Fox News is reporting that a hacker claims to have posted the ending of the next and final Harry Potter book online.

The latest Nancy Drew PC Game is reviewed by CinemaBlend.com.

The 80-installment online soap opera murder mystery Prom Queen comes to an end.

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Mystery Book Review: Black's Beach Shuffle by Corey Lynn Fayman

Mysterious Reviews, mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, has written a review of Black's Beach Shuffle by Corey Lynn Fayman. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website.

Black's Beach Shuffle by Corey Lynn Fayman
A Rolly Waters Mystery

iUniverse (Trade Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-595-40267-4 (0595402674)
ISBN-13: 978-0-595-40267-0 (9780595402670)
Publication Date: November 2006
List Price: $13.95

Synopsis (from the publisher): Rolly Waters is a recovering rock musician and part-time private eye. One night his band performs at a blowout party for EyeBitz.com, a fast-rising Internet startup that has the city of San Diego talking. When Rolly returns after hours to retrieve his guitar from the host’s mansion, he finds a dead body floating in the swimming pool. His discovery sets in motion a series of intrigues that drag him into the surreal world of dot.com culture, as well as the dark heart of his own uneven past.

Review: Corey Lynn Fayman introduces part-time rock-and-roll band player, part-time private investigator Rolly Waters in the first of an expected trilogy of mysteries, Black's Beach Shuffle.

In a case of "it's not what you know but who you know", low-tech Rolly Waters is hired by a high-tech San Diego company to locate a missing computer disk, the key to a revolutionary software product being developed by EyeBitz.com. Rolly's only prior connection to the company was from the night before when, after completing a gig at the home of an EyeBitz.com executive and returning for a forgotten guitar, Rolly finds a dead man floating in the pool built on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. That same man is later found at the base of the cliffs on Black's Beach. Rolly soon discovers that the murdered man and his investigation are intricately related and solving one will lead to the solution of the other.

There's a well written passage about a third of the way into the book that sums up Rolly's perception of his case. "Solving cases was like writing songs. Most of his cases were simple blues tunes. You started with the basic structure. Somebody did somebody else wrong. That was the easy part. Cases like that started with the same bund of notes, the same basic chords, but each client had their own special way of playing it. But this case was different. This one was more like a concerto, with an inviolable score written in tiny black notes. The orchestra had started playing before Rolly arrived. All he had was a triangle to play with." Reading Black's Beach Shuffle is a lot like listening to, and enjoying, a complicated piece of music. It's complex but not confusing. And as Rolly slowly begins to understand how the various components fit together, a clear picture emerges of who took the missing key and more importantly why it was taken.

Fayman wisely shows some restraint in this tightly plotted book with well drawn characters in believable situations. Black's Beach Shuffle is a terrific start to this series and readers will be looking forward to Rolly's next mystery.

Special thanks to Author Marketing Experts for providing a copy of Black's Beach Shuffle for this review.

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News: Shortlist for Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year

Voting by the public is now over, and the shortlist for this year's Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year has been announced. The titles are:

The Dead Place by Stephen Booth;
All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye by Christopher Brookmyre;
Two Way Split by Allan Guthrie;
Blood and Honey by Graham Hurley;
The Death Ship of Dartmouth by Michael Jecks;
Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride.

The winner will be announced on July 19th at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and will receive £3,000.

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Mystery Book Review: Lethally Blond by Kate White

Mysterious Reviews, mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, has written a review of Lethally Blond by Kate White. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website.

Lethally Blond by Kate White
A Bailey Weggins Mystery

Grand Central Publishing (Hardcover)
ISBN-10: 0-446-57795-2 (0446577952)
ISBN-13: 978-0-446-57795-3 (9780446577953)
Publication Date: May 2007
List Price: $24.99

Synopsis (from the publisher): Whenever a celebrity throws a phone, crashes a car, or kills a spouse, celebrity journalist Bailey Weggins is there to cover it for the gossip magazine Buzz. Now, the new television show Morgue is the talk of the town, and just as Bailey starts reminiscing about her brief summer fling with the show's gorgeous star, Chris Wickersham, he calls. But Chris isn't thinking about rekindling their old flame. His friend and fellow actor on the show has gone missing, and while nobody else seems to be alarmed, Chris can't believe his friend would just run off while on the brink of stardom. When Bailey starts to investigate as a favor for Chris, she soon realizes there is much more to the disappearance than meets the eye, and unless she can unearth the truth, she could become the inspiration for Morgue's next episode.

Review: Spunky, intelligent, 30-something celebrity crime reporter for Buzz magazine Bailey Weggins shares the spotlight with the glamorous stars of television in Lethally Blond, the fifth mystery by Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Kate White.

Bailey is asked by a former lover, Chris, to help find his friend Tom who has disappeared. Chris and Tom have both landed roles in a new prime time series, Morgue. A few weeks before the show is to air, however, Tom drops out of sight. Although no one on the staff or in the crew thinks anything about it, Chris thinks Tom was too excited about getting his part that he would not just leave without telling someone. As Bailey starts her investigation into Tom’s disappearance, she renews her love affair with Chris. Delving into the lives of each cast member, she finds that Tom has an ongoing love affair with the show’s principle star, who is engaged to the producer. Tom also had affairs with some other women in the cast, a few of whom did not want it to end. He was owed a large sum of money by a fellow actor and was pressing for payment. He had a family home in Andes in the Catskills which no one seemed to know anything about. Bailey, between her job at Buzz and trying to spend every spare minute rekindling her love for Chris, finds time to go to Andes and search for Tom’s home. There she finds a body burned beyond recognition. Is it Tom? If so, who else knew about his home? And if it isn’t, who is it?

Though Lethally Blond doesn't have a substantial mystery plot, the book will attract readers who enjoy the exploits of media stars with a couple of murders thrown in. White, with her insider knowledge of the industry, does a fine job of portraying the characters in her book as they seem to appear in the public eye. Whether this is accurate or not is irrelevant; perception is reality in the world of show business.

Bailey Weggins is an appealing amateur sleuth who uses her charm to get intimate with the people she has put on her suspect list. Though repeatedly threatened during her investigation, she forges ahead with incredible determination until she solves the mystery.

Lethally Blond is light and fun and the perfect companion for a summer vacation.

Special thanks to guest reviewer Betty of The Betz Review for contributing her review of Lethally Blond and to Precedent Media Unlimited for providing a copy of the book for this review.

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