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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: mystery
Sharon Kay Penman’s The Queen’s Man, Cruel as the Grave, and Dragon’s Lair
Since Ellis Peters started it all with her Brother Cadfael series, the medieval mystery genre has exploded in popularity: Candace Robb’s Owen Archer series; Margaret Frazer’s Sister Frevisse mysteries; Edward Marston’s Norman Domesday tales. Noted for her historical novels, such … Continue reading
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Tagged historical fiction, mystery
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Caroline Graham’s The Killings at Badger’s Drift
A first edition of this novel, which inspired The Midsomer Murders series in Britain, will set you back some six hundred dollars! Fortunately Felony & Mayhem has published a new edition that costs considerably less. Now this an English mystery … Continue reading
Deborah Grabien’s Still Life with Devils
Christopher White penned this review. Deborah Grabien is a writer with a style that is easy and pleasant to read; in short, she is a talented storyteller. Still Life with Devils is a potentially interesting genre mash-up, mystery meets supernatural. … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, mystery, science fiction
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Jean-Luc Bannalec’s The King Arthur Case
Jean-Luc Bannalec’s The King Arthur Case represents a new entry in the author’s Commissaire Georges Dupin series. It also sports a connection to one of the western world’s most well-known schools of folklore and mythology. Georges Dupin is an entertaining … Continue reading
Acorn Media’s A Mind to Kill, Series One
A Mind to Kill was a really gritty police detective series developed from a 1991 pilot with the series running from 1994 to 2004 and which aired first in Wales. Befitting its setting in Mid Wales, it was indeed filmed … Continue reading
J. K. Van Dover’s Making the Detective Story American
The past decade has witnessed a dark flowering of detective stories in genre fiction, from the Harry Dresden series to the more recent “weird-boiled noir” of Paul Tremblay’s The Little Sleep and China Mieville’s The City & the City, not … Continue reading
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Tagged mystery, nonfiction
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Anthony Horowitz’s Foyle’s War
Foyle’s War is an immensely popular British mystery series created and largely written by Anthony Horowitz, who also had a hand in screenwriting for Poirot and Midsomer Murders, two other British mystery series I also enjoy. The British commercial television … Continue reading
Acorn Media’s Midsomer Murders, Set 13
Damn, those were good! Indeed they were the finest set of Midsomer Murders in the span of the entire series. I’ve seen every one of them, courtesy of Acorn, which has released them all on DVD in the USA. I … Continue reading
Acorn Media Group’s Midsomer Murders, Set Eleven and Set 12
Bless Acorn Media for sending us these wonderful DVD sets as they become available! I remember all too well the exquisite torture of watching some of the earlier Midsomer Murders episodes, well larded with commercial breaks, on the A&E Network. … Continue reading
Acorn Media Group’s Midsomer Murders, Set 1
‘Every time I go into any Midsomer village, it’s always the same thing’, he huffs. ‘Blackmail, sexual deviancy, suicide and murder.’ – Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby in Midsomer Murders I first saw the Midsomer Murders series on A&E, the American … Continue reading