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Laura Childs, Nancy West, Joyce & Jim Lavene, short stories, giveaways & more in KRL

Up in Kings River Life this morning we have a review of Nancy G. West's latest mystery "Dang Near Dead", a fun guest post from Nancy where she interviews her main character & a chance to win a copy of not only this book but the one before it http://kingsriverlife.com/01/12/dang-near-dead-by-nancy-g-west/

 

Also up in KRL this morning, a review of Jim & Joyce Lavene's latest supernatural…

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Added by Lorie Ham on January 13, 2013 at 3:37am — No Comments

Fun with Kindle

I've only had the thing a month, and already I'm irritated if I want a book and it has not been "Kindlized". I just found my friends Laura Alden and Hannah Reed on Kindle (MURDER AT THE PTA and BUZZ OFFF, respectively), which is cool.

Living in a very small town, I used to have to make a list and then when I got to a town big enough to have a bookstore, look for books I wanted to read. Often, authors I meet at conferences are with small publishers, so the bookstores would have to order the… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on October 11, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Laura Lippman and Tess Monaghan

(Cross-posted at One Bite at a Time.)



I finished reading Laura Lippman’s What the Dead Know last night. It deserved all the awards it won last year. Tightly written, well paced, with exceptional character development and a nice twist at the end.



Last fall I read Hardly Knew Her, a collection of Lippman’s short stories. It, too, was excellent, though, as with all anthologies, some stories were better than… Continue

Added by Dana King on April 10, 2009 at 3:19am — No Comments

Atmosphere (R)

How is it that some authors grab you by the sleeve and won't let you go, while others only provide a pleasant diversion that can be set down at any moment to do something more pressing?



Laura Lippman does it; Barry Eisler too. It could be in Lippman's case that she writes as I think, pulling up details that seem like they came from my own brain, but in Eisler's work I have no frame of reference, being neither Asian nor a hired assassin. So it must be something else, and I call it… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on July 16, 2008 at 9:53pm — No Comments

Laura Lippman and the Invisible Woman

Last night I attended a booksigning for one of my very favorite authors, Laura Lippman. For a report on the evening and pictures, check out Writing, etc.

Added by Annette Dashofy on April 6, 2008 at 2:38am — No Comments

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