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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Tag Archives: detective fiction
Loren D. Estleman’s City Walls
Loren D. Estleman’s City Walls is the 31st in the Amos Walker Mystery series. With a long running crime series and an old hand at writing, the plot is far more new than the detective. This book finds the Michigan … Continue reading
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Tagged detective fiction, hard boiled, mystery
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Jodi Taylor’s Doing Time (The Time Police #1)
The invention of time travel led to the Time Wars, which led to the Time Police, who solve problems by ruthless, thorough, application of force. Stop the illegal time travelers, bring home for prosecution any who are unaccountably still alive, … Continue reading
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Tagged detective fiction, speculative fiction, time travel
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James Lee Burke’s The Tin Roof Blowdown
James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux novels have been a source of entertainment and excitement to me for many years. Burke has been particularly prolific in recent years (he even created a new series featuring Billy Bob Holland) and The Tin … Continue reading
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Tagged detective fiction, post-Katrina New Orleans
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James Lee Burke’s Pegasus Descending
James Lee Burke lives in two places, and he writes about them both. He has a home in Montana (where he has set his Billy Bob Holland series) and another in New Iberia, Louisiana. Pegasus Descending is the latest in … Continue reading
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Tagged detective fiction, New Orleans
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James Lee Burke’s Purple Cane Road
Dave Robicheaux is a middle-aged guy, trying to get along. Still haunted by his experiences in Viet Nam, troubled by his relationship with his long-dead parents, he is now a homicide detective in New Iberia Parish in Louisiana. His second … Continue reading
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Tagged detective fiction, New Orleans
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Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele’s The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone
Flesh and Bone is a prequel to The Surrogates, taking the story back fifteen years to the anti-surrogate riots of 2039. The incident that sparks the crisis is the beating death of a derelict by three teenagers who are using … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, detective fiction, satire, science fiction
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Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele’s The Surrogates
Robert Venditti’s The Surrogates, drawn by Brett Weldele, is right up among the top graphic works I’ve run across recently. Set in a near-future megalopolis, it’s a fast-moving crime drama with a couple of unique twists. The central motivator in … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, detective fiction
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Steven Brust’s Jhegaala
One reaches a point in any fantasy series where one wonders if the author has anything left to say. Too many of them don’t and the series peters out into another ongoing and often lame effort to feed the fans. … Continue reading
Steven Brust’s Iorich
I’ve noted before how Steven Brust manages to keep an ongoing series alive by the simple expedient of presenting the protagonist with new challenges in each volume. In Iorich, the latest installment of The Taltos Cycle, he’s presented Vlad Taltos … Continue reading
Glen Cook’s A Matter of Time
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