All Blog Posts Tagged 'Mary' (9)

10 Mystery Giveaway over at Kings River Life

What better gift than books for the holidays? This week in my Coming Attractions column I have a hefty list of titles. Better yet, you have a chance of winning 10 books just by making a comment or emailing ezine editor Lorie Ham. Contest ends Dec. 6.…

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Added by Sunny Frazier on December 1, 2014 at 8:28am — No Comments

Dashiell Hammett's Thin Man, Keri Arthur, Mary Reed & more in new KRL issue

New issue of Kings River Life is up and we have a fun article on "The Thin Man" from Dashiell Hammett's book to the fun movie series starring William Powell http://kingsriverlife.com/09/01/the-thin-man/

We also have a review of B.A. Neal's mystery novel "Lone Star Death" & a chance to win a copy of the book…

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Added by Lorie Ham on September 2, 2012 at 2:50am — No Comments

My experince in teaching a writing workshop and with radio interview

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The First Annual Southern Expressions Writers Conference was held this past weekend (November 5 - 7, 2010) at the Mary C. O'Keefe Museum in Ocean Springs, MS. There were about 75…

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Added by Darden North, MD on November 10, 2010 at 9:53am — No Comments

The Inquisition, the Jews of Andalus, and Columbus: 'By Fire By Water' review

Historical novels vie with crime and romance novels for the titles of most derided and most widely read literature. They've had a bad rap ever since the 19th century, when the swashbucklers of Alexandre Dumas looked pretty wooden next to Dickens, and cartoonish in comparison to the depth of Victor Hugo or George Eliot. There have always been marvelous exceptions, such as Mary Renault's amazing novels of ancient Greece, but for much of the last century, historical fiction was…

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Added by Matt Rees on September 3, 2010 at 10:47pm — No Comments

Book of A Lifetime: The King Must Die

The Independent has a regular feature in which it asks authors to write about a book which changed their lives somehow. Last week the London newspaper asked me to write the piece. Here it is:

In early 1999, King Hussein fell sick on his return from cancer treatment in the US. I was Middle East correspondent for The…

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Added by Matt Rees on February 22, 2010 at 5:07pm — 2 Comments

Review - The Fortunes of Mary Fortune, Mary Fortune (edited by Lucy Sussex)

Book Title: THE FORTUNES OF MARY FORTUNE

Author: Mary Fortune (edited by Lucy Sussex)

Publisher: Penguin

Copyright: 1989

ISBN: 0-14-012302-4

No of Pages: 230

Book Synopsis:

'To fall asleep and dream dreams that change as quickly as the forms in an unsteady kaleidoscope, and to awaken with a bewildered feeling that you are not yourself but have changed places with some other identity, must be a sensation akin to that I experienced when I opened my… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on January 5, 2010 at 9:45am — No Comments

Review - Three Murder Mysteries by Mary Fortune

Book Title: THREE MURDER MYSTERIES

Author: Mary Fortune

Publisher: Mulini Press

Copyright: 2009

ISBN: 978-0-9805455-8-6

No of Pages: 74

Book Synopsis:

Three 'Murder Mysteries' are examples of Mary Fortune's great skill in writing 'detective fiction' at this early period when the genre was in

the beginning stages of a now popular form of fiction. The three stories are introduced by Lucy Sussex.

Book Review:

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on August 6, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

My 5 favorite novels

My second Palestinian crime novel A Grave in Gaza (UK title: The Saladin Murders) is just now published in Holland. The Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant asked me to contribute a list of my five favorite books, or at least those which've had the biggest impact on me as a writer. Here's what I wrote:

Let It Come Down – Paul Bowles

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Added by Matt Rees on June 25, 2009 at 1:17am — No Comments

Language of the Bees by Laurie R. King

Sherlock Holmes married? I know it sounds ridiculous, but the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series is one of the best.

Be sure to read my review of her latest book, Language of the Bees.

http://midnightbloodreviews.blogspot.com/2009/06/language-of-bees.html

Added by Linda Suzane on June 23, 2009 at 7:36am — No Comments