My new suspense novel, Honeymoon for Three, is coming out at the end of June. Here is a synopsis:

It is 1964, 10 years after Gary Blanchard’s high school adventures in The Hayloft. He and his love, Penny, are going on the trip of their lives, and, oh yes, they’re getting married along the way. What they don’t know is that they’re being stalked by Alfred, a high school classmate of Penny…

VOLK’S GAME (Suspense-Volk-Russia-Cont) - VG

Ghelfi, Brent – 1^st book

Henry Holt and Company, 2007, US Hardcover – ISBN: 9780805082548



First Sentence: “What do you know about art, Volk?”



Alexei Volkovoy, “Volk,” must balance between to masters; Maxim, a Russia mafia kingpin,…

Lord, what a dopey day today. I seem to have had about a zillion hours sleep (which I suspect I needed) and only managed to drag myself out of bed this morning after 10am. Getting up is such an effort, you know ... But at least I managed to have a bath and get dressed by early afternoon, thus showing a great improvement on yesterday "getting dressed time" of gone 3pm. Somebody pass the smelling salts ...



Hey, and I managed to eat breakfast too - hurrah! A normal one. Though I…

My apologies to the 24 (!) -- as of today, June 9th -- people who put in friend requests to me. You are not being snubbed! I've been caught up in many other things and only now getting back to this woefully neglected Crimespace page.

Please come visit my author website -- www.susannealleyn.com -- for some new links and so on. I'll be adding a newsletter feature soon and I hope you'll sign up. (No fear, I'm a rotten…

... I think. Hurrah. But am about as lively as a squeezed-out sponge. Still didn't feel able to go to bed last night, though I managed to get 4 hours' sleep on the sofa early morning, so that was a relief. How I wish we'd bought a three-seater sofa though ... but where would we put it in our flat?? The plus side was that I caught up on the late-night wedding stories and, yes, Peter and Carlton did get married, and their costumes did turn up. Phew. As did Peter's estranged father, who was…

Posted by Jeanne Munn Bracken

Lately I have been in a food mode. Not cooking--who has time for that? Well, my retired spouse does, but somehow his leisure time has not translated into gourmet anything. It's meatloaf, spaghetti, tuna fish, repeat ad infinitum.

What I have been doing is reading about food. I didn't plan it, but before I knew it, I was listening to an audiobook about food, and reading both a nonfiction food book and a mystery in the culinary genre. Not a…

posted by Doranna Durgin

So I'm back from another agility trial weekend, this one a three-day event. It's Monday morning as I write this and I'm facing the week pre-exhausted. In fact, it's safe to say I'm already distinctly behind the curve.

Maybe it's not surprising that those close to me express mixed feelings about my canine performance activities. I train almost daily, whether in "formal" sessions or just small exercises for the dogs throughout the day. I participate in…

COLD DAY IN HELL (Priv. Invest.-Fritz Malone—NYC-Cont) - Poor

Hawke, Richard – 2^nd in series

Random House, 2007, US Hardcover – ISBN:



First Sentence: On the last day of her life, she took a yoga class.



Private Investigator Fritz Malone becomes involved in a case where…

"You never get a second chance to make a first impression."

That's like the quote attributed to the late Philadelphia Mayor, Frank Rizzo: "The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe."

I was reminded of this (first impressions, not Philadelphia) outside a Quik-Trip here in Liberty.

I had paid for gas (filling my gas tank costs me more than rent in my first apartment!) and was waiting for my daughter to come back with…

This will be a short blog, I'm afraid, as I'm sick. Having one of my nasty sinusy sessions again so was up all night last night, though I think maybe I did get about a couple of hours' sleep. Maybe. It's hard to tell as my brain is slush and I'm having trouble making any kind of logical connections. To anything.



Actually, it's a bit depressing, as I haven't had one of these bouts for a while, and I was beginning to hope. As you do. You know how it is. Or rather, it would be…

Went up to BEA in New York this past Saturday, signing copies of Body Trace with the Mystery Writers of America.

I rode up with Citypaper…