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- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
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- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- 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
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- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
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- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
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- 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
Tag Archives: mystery
Alex Bledsoe’s Dark Jenny
What do you get when you mix the legend of King Arthur with the detective fiction of Raymond Chandler? It seems you come up with Alex Bledsoe’s stories of Eddie LaCrosse, sometime mercenary soldier, sometime hardboiled detective. In Dark Jenny, … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, historical fiction, mystery
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Carole Nelson Douglas’s Cat in a Kiwi Con
No’am Newman wrote this for us. First, the facts: this is the fourteenth in a series of mystery books written about a cat called Midnight Louie. Some of the others have alliterative names such as Cat in a Diamond Dazzle or Cat in … Continue reading
Phillip DePoy’s The Devil’s Hearth
I’ve a special fondness for mystery series set in the Appalachian Mountains, even though there aren’t a lot of good ones and a lot of not so great ones. Sharyn McCrumb’s Ballads series had some memorable outings, particularly among the … Continue reading
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Tagged Appalachian culture, mystery
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Dusty Rainbolt’s Death Under The Crescent Moon
There’s a moment toward the end of Dusty Rainbolt’s Death Under the Crescent Moon that is worth the price of admission all by its lonesome. In that instant, Rainbolt takes the clichés of the haunted hotel mystery and neatly dumps … Continue reading
Tagged ghost story, mystery, southern gothic
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Tasha Alexander’s A Fatal Waltz and Tears of Pearl
A while back I reviewed an earlier book in this series, A Poisoned Season. I liked it enough that I knew I would be willing to read future installments. Then I lost track, which is easy enough to do, given … Continue reading
Tasha Alexander’s A Poisoned Season
This late Victorian murder mystery’s dust jacket immediately caught my eye. It features a detail from one of my favorite paintings, Tissot’s “L’Ambitieuse” (translated as “Political Woman” or “The Reception”), depicting a dark-haired, elaborately dressed and coiffed woman gazing somewhat … Continue reading
Barbara Nadel’s The Ottoman Cage
We have an office at Green Man, staffed by brownies, of course, that does searches for books that might interest us. One of those searches netted me a copy of The Ottoman Cage. I’m easy for the brownies to figure … Continue reading
BBC’s The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
We watch almost nothing on so-called network television these days. Oh, the local news is watched, but that’s it. Now partly that’s because the premium networks such as HBO are where the really good stuff is, such as Carnivàle and … Continue reading
Anne K. Kaler, editor’s Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael
Anyone who has had to battle their way through an English term paper probably remembers with dread the research books that they had to wade through, scraping a quote here and an inference there, then helplessly staring at how much … Continue reading
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Tagged literary criticism, mystery
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