Tag: Fiction
12 Murder Mysteries for Christmas
Recommended Reads: 12 Murders for the Holidays In the mood for a little murder this holiday season? Stories set around the Christmas holiday season have a tendency to be lighthearted affairs with an “all’s well that ends well” conclusion. Many cozy authors churn out at least one Christmas story, and the season certainly lends itself to… Read More ›
Deleted Scenes
You’ve seen them. Check out a DVD (or Blu-ray) film or TV series and more likely than not, there’s a deleted scene(s), commentaries by the director or cast, behind-the-scenes featurette(s) and more. Why aren’t there such extra features in books? After writers pen their novel (or short story), revisions and edits may more often than… Read More ›
First Book Launch
Today, I fulfilled a long held dream, publishing my first murder mystery novel! Published through Soul Mate Publishing and now available as an ebook on Amazon.com, Death on Stoneridge is set in Syracuse, New York, and is the first of a planned series. Neighbors living on Stoneridge Drive are alarmed when a suicide and a… Read More ›
5 Thrillers for Halloween
Recently I put together a short list of recommended books for a “book beat” article I contribute to a local newspaper, The Eagle Bulletin. Appearing in the October 22, 2014 issue, the selected books appeared under the banner of “Some New and Well-Respected Horror Reads for Halloween.” Though not the title I’d originally chosen for… Read More ›
The Bone Collector
“Everybody’s nightmare … you get into a cab and turns out there’s a psycho behind the wheel.” That’s how The Bone Collector begins. A man and woman fly into JFK. Weary from their travels, they get in a yellow cab. Their intention was to share the ride home to their respective addresses. Instead, they’ll share a… Read More ›
Open Road Media & Mystery eBooks
The most depressing thing about managing a book collection is weeding. It might seems like an easy decision to get rid of a book you’ve read, but invariably, doesn’t it always seem like you want or need to refer back to that book only to find out you don’t have it anymore? Many bibliophiles, like… Read More ›
The Old Man in the Corner
“There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation.” An old man sits down at a table beside news reporter Polly and makes this startling observation at the beginning of this collection of twelve short stories. Throughout one may wonder what kind… Read More ›
The Purloined Letter
“He had called to consult us, or rather to ask the opinion of my friend, about some official business which had occasioned a great deal of trouble.” The shortest of the Dupin tales, The Purloined Letter is perhaps the most ingenious. The Prefect of the Parisian police pays a visit to Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin… Read More ›
Mystery of Marie Roget
“The extraordinary details which I am now called upon to make public, will be found to form, as regards sequence of time, the primary branch of a series of scarcely intelligible coincidences, whose secondary or concluding branch will be recognized by all readers in the late murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers, at New York.” In… Read More ›
Murders in the Rue Morgue
“The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.” Thus begins “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, which first appeared in Graham’s Magazine in 1841 and is widely considered the first true detective story. Although its solution might appear fantastical, Poe’s first Dupin tale lays out the foundation… Read More ›
The Poisoned Martini 