Long before I ever considered becoming a writer of murder mysteries, my wife and I would make a trip every winter to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It was an annual pilgrimage, a week of cross-country skiing in and around the Jackson Ski Touring Foundation. Every trip was memorable, but only one trip was memorable for murder.



It was the winter of 1985. Driving north, we caught the tail-end of a news item on the car radio, nothing unusual, something about an open murder… Continue

I'm guest blogging today at The Stiletto Gang (www.thestilettogang.blogspot.com). I hope you'll take a few minutes out from your Fourth of July festivities to check out my post about True Crime. Thanks. And Happy Fourth!

The location of the annual New Year’s Eve Party had been in an established rotation for more years than they could count. A neighborhood tradition, eight families, each one taking their turn as hosts. Once every eight years it was Jimmy and Ellen Thomson’s turn. Always they followed John and Susan Berryman and preceded Marty and Ronnie Stansfield. The tradition, which began before any of them had children, had…

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I'll be speaking and signing copies of A Minor Case of Murder at 7:00 tonight at the Bound Brook Memorial Library in Bound Brook, NJ. If you're in the neighborhood, I hope you'll stop by and say hello.

I'd like to use this space today to thank Mary P. Smith, Tiffany Schofield and everyone else at Thorndike Press/Five Star for their gracious hospitality at Author Day, last Friday in Waterville, Maine.

Also to my fellow Five Star authors who made the trip to Waterville - it was great good fun.…

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Every day this summer you can find wonderful books in the Summer Mystery Reading Challenge at Reviewed by Liz. I am very pleased to be the featured author today. So stop by her site and leave a comment or question.

And go back from time-to-time to discover other wonderful mystery writers. You might even want to sign up and take the challenge. To borrow from Liz, "Because life is too short for mediocre…

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I am always looking for ways to connect with my readers. And so, from time to time, I devote one of my blogs (www.xanga.com/doahsdeer) to writing collaborative stories with my readers. I'll post the first few hundred words and invite my readers to write the story along with me. We write without a plan, without even an idea who our co-writers will be. Quite simply, I invite my readers to post the next section of the story as a comment at my blog.…

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I'm sure that some of you will know Paul Toth, who has a page here on crimespace. Paul is building a vast library of podcasts, featuring some of his own works as well as works by guest authors. Thursday evening, I read the first chapter of A Minor Case of Murder for one of Paul's podcasts, and here it is already featured on tothworld #94. So listen, if you're so inclined to toth 94 and then check out his archives.

My thanks to Paul for…

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I wanted to use this space today to thank Margery Flax and the Mystery Writers of America for hosting my book signing Friday at Book Expo America. And to those writers and MWA members that I met for the first time on Friday, it's a pleasure to meet you guys. I came home with a summer's worth of books to read. I hope you all had as much fun at BEA as I did.

"Jeff Markowitz approaches the mystery genre with a rare and refreshing sense of humor, bringing his readers on a journey through an entertaining world where his characters are intelligent, fun and wonderfully lovable."

Thank you.

Murder, He Wrote - An Interview with Jeff Markowitz

On June 1, I'll be signing copies of A Minor Case of Murder from 1:30 - 2:00 at the MWA booth at Book Expo America. If you're going to BEA, I hope you'll stop by and say hello.

Many years from now, on an episode of Before They Were Stars, they're going to show a clip from tonight's Law and Order. Watch as my young friend Miles is murdered on TV tonight.

Every now and then I stumble upon another author who's doing something truly interesting on a website. I don't know this author. I don't know what she writes. I don't know what her stories are about. I only know that I'm going to buy her book. And then I'm going to re-think my own website. Take a look at her website and then come back and leave a comment.

Okay, it may take me a while to figure out how to navigate here on crimespace, but, in the meantime, I'm curious, with Edgar Week approaching, who else is planning to be at the Edgar Symposium this year?