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- What’s New for the 1st of the October: Horror, time travel, murder and fantasy, and comics journalism; personal Scandinavian jazz, ancient Persian songs, bluegrass, Americana, and a podcast; Johnny Cash on TV; chocolate and empanadas
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Béla
- What’s New for the 17th of September: WWII (and other) mysteries; jazz, Americana, Celtic music and more; Doc Martin; summer beer and ale
- A Kinrowan Estate story: My Library
- What’s New for the 3rd of September: Gary pens a short tribute to Jimmy Buffett, New jazz and Americana music, a grab bag of styles from the archives, books about English folk rock, books about breakfast and brunch, a black and white world, a panned comic, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the 20th of August: Some favorite mysteries; jazz, country, RT, and a musical grab bag; a hoedown, a big dragon, Hellboy, and of course ice cream!
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Guest Lecturer
- What’s New for the 6th of August: Weird westerns and singing cowboys, Jane Lindskold and two from Patricia McKillip; ska, Spanish jazz, klezmer, and songs about fishing; Mary Poppins and lonely Vampires, Roman emperors and superheroes; and a couple of Oregon ales in a British style pub
- What’s New for the 3rd of September:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Chasing Fireflies
- What’s New for the 23rd of July: Books by Roger Zelazny; Scottish music, SCOTS music, dance music and Asian Underground; chocolate-peanut butter cookies, rock poster art, and a little primal horror
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: A Theological Anthropologist
- What’s New for the 9th of July: All Sorts of Good Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Musical Ganeshas (A Letter to Svetlana)
- What’s New for the 25th of June: Steeleye Span edition
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Danse Macabre (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 11th of June: Space Opera, Folkmanis Rat in a Tin Can, Lots of folk rock – Steeleye Span, Orthodox Celts – Maddy Prior interview, some contradance and some bluegrass; a catty film review; Vess’s Ballads & Sagas; and some new Norwegian folk rock
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Reading Groups (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 28th of May: All Sorts of Interesting Reviews, Page and Plant’s ‘Kashmir’ and Kage’s Favourite Folk Song
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: The Green Lady
- What’s New for the 14 of May: Lots of live music plus some new jazz and country; urban fantasy, horror, and classic sf; new Oreos;
- A Kinrowan Estate story: The Calamity Janes
- What’s New for the 30th of April: Some new sf, old sf and con mysteries; lots of Celtic music and Willie Nelson’s birthday bash; a Hans Christian Andersen biopic; and lots of booze
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Hidden Bookstore
- What’s New for the 16th of April: Matty Groves as done by Sandy Denny, Mushroom Hunting, Michael Kaluta, Shane McGowan, some books that touch on the American Pastime, Norwegian folk, a Swiss classical take on American music, The Weavers, Federal Music Project, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Estate gossip (A Letter to Tessa)
- What’s New for the 2nd of April: Kaiju preservation, Francesca Lia Block; lots of Alan Moore; Celtic music, organ jazz trios, West Coast jazz, and meld of American exotica, minimalist jazz, and Middle Eastern modes
- A Kinrowan Estate story: The Wood
- What’s New for the 19th of March: Rough Guides, Brian Vaughan’s The Escapist, Douglas Adams considered, Pamela Dean’s favourite ballad, Woodie Guthrie, Turkish Coffee, A big review of books about music, Red Molly Live
Category Archives: Books
Truman Capote’s “Another Day in Paradise”
Truman Capote’s Another Day in Paradise is a recently rediscovered work by the well known literary figure. It leans more toward his society work than the material found within In Cold Blood. It deals with Iris Greentree, a bitter woman … Continue reading
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Peter James’ Stop Them Dead
Peter James’ Stop Them Dead is another in a very long-running series, and chooses to focus on a murder connected to a specific subset of crime to give it some novelty. A small family is making ends meet partly by … Continue reading
A.F. Carter’s The Yards: A Novel
A.F. Carter’s The Yards: A Novel of Suspense is an excellent example of neo noir. Following the lives of a number of figures in a failing town named Baxter, the death of a junkie leads them to intersect as the … Continue reading
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman’s Burning Distance
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman’s Burning Distance is a new volume from an experienced and multi-talented hand. Sold as a thriller, and dealing with events surrounding, before and shortly after the original Gulf War there is little in the way of avoiding calling … Continue reading
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Tagged historical fiction, thriller
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Lindsey Davis’ Fatal Legacy
Fatal Legacy is the latest in Lindsey Davis’ Flavia Albia series. Once again featuring our lead working as a private investigator of sorts, the book starts as one of the lower stakes cases she has encountered. However, like many such … Continue reading
Jode Millman’s The Empty Kayak
Jodé Millman’s The Empty Kayak is the third in a series starring police detective Ebony Jones. With a title that makes the coming action seem obvious, the book relies heavily on twisting and character to keep reader interest. The police … Continue reading
Kim Harrison’s For A Few Demons More
I love history. But I really, really love alternate history. You know, taking the world and tweaking the timeline it a little. And perhaps putting in a few things that don’t exist in the world as we know it. For … Continue reading
Earl F. Bargainnier’s The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie
Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. I have one serious problem with this book – the typeface. The main text itself is fine, but long quotations, as well as the notes, are in tiny, tiny, tiny type. Even with progressive … Continue reading
Blake Bell’s I Have to Live With this Guy!
Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. The first thing you read in the “About the Author” section on the last page of I Have to Live With this Guy! is “Blake Bell has killed a guy.” I don’t know whether … Continue reading
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Holly Black’s Ironside
In her book At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, and Other Troublesome Things, Diane Purkiss gives her readers a chilling glimpse of the fairy world through the eyes of the title character in the … Continue reading