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A debut novel in the spirit of ‘Gone Girl’

“The Widow,” by Fiona Barton The crime fiction market these days is being flooded, astonished and forever changed by first-time novelists. When reading these days largely means lo...

DATE: Oct 31, 2016 | CATEGORY: Murder Ink

‘You’ pushes the reader closer to the cliff

It was timed for today to bring to your attention another charming Samuel Craddock mystery by the easygoing and marvelous storyteller Terry Shames. She is uncomplicated and a plea...

DATE: Jan 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Murder Ink

“Woman with a Blue Pencil”: A disorienting, dazzling rabbit-hole of a book

Sometimes it’s mind-cleansing to see how long you can hold your breath swimming underwater, or to peer over the ledge of a skyscraper and wonder what you’d be thinking on the way down if you...

DATE: Dec 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Murder Ink

Want to hear George Winston? Good luck

The platinum-selling pianist comes to Durango Arts Center Sunday and Monday, but tickets are going, going, (almost) gone

DATE: Dec 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Music

Debut is a gritty, sexy romp around early 20th century L.A.

Anna Blanc is a petulant, over-privileged, coming-of-age daughter of a Los Angeles banking tycoon, circa 1907. “The Secret Life of Anna Blanc” by Jennifer Kincheloe is all about Anna and is ...

DATE: Dec 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Murder Ink

Blindsided by the ingenious ‘Rubbernecker’

Bauer’s book is one of the best ever to be reviewed in this space

DATE: Oct 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Murder Ink

Mystery will pull your strings

Disclaimer by Renée Knight is another debut novel by yet another British author fresh out of another fiction writing workshop. Knight explains how she practiced writing a book ab...

DATE: Sep 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Murder Ink

Strange, new mystery requires a strong stomach

The Doll Maker by Richard Montanari is nearly 500 pages long, published by Mulholland Books, a division of prestigious Little Brown and Co., and was released in cloth cover last April. This ...

DATE: Aug 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Murder Ink

Crime fiction newcomers are close to perfect

It's like asking which child is a mother's favorite, or whether a 1959 bottle of Henri Jayer Richebourg Grand Cru from Cote de Nuits is better than a 1971 Château Mouton Rothchild first-grow...

DATE: Jul 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Murder Ink

A gripping new trilogy from an unlikely author

Malcolm Mackay and his Glasgow Trilogy have made a chump of me and must be an embarrassment to publisher Mulholland Books. I had never heard of Malcolm Mackay – not too surprising...

DATE: Jun 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Murder Ink

New mysteries are entertaining summer reads

Stone Cold Dead, James Ziskin’s third Ellie Stone mystery, is every bit as good as his first two books, which were excellent. Ziskin is a natural storyteller and a very accomplish...

DATE: May 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Murder Ink

Mystery explores old murders in fact and fiction

Life is full of surprises, and The Strange Case of Dr. Doyle – written by a father-and-son pair of physicians and published by Square One Publishers, a small, indie book publisher in a town ...

DATE: Apr 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Murder Ink