Do you know we have a whole blog dedicated to crime fiction? Book reviews, author Q&A’s, industry news & more can all be found over at mysterypeople.wordpress.com.
Here’s what Crime Fiction Coordinator Scott M. and his cohorts were talking about last week:
Getting to know Daniel O’Shea a little better:
“I got to know Daniel O’ Shea at a group dinner at the Ratskeller Restaurant during the Indianapolis Bouchercon. There, he told me about the book he was trying to sell. It sounded unique, an edgy police procedural mixed with a political thriller. The French Connection meets All The President’s Men. I told him to get a copy to me as soon as it was in print. That took four years….”
Q&A with Wallace Stroby, author of the December Pick of the Month:
“MYSTERYPEOPLE: Do you think Crissa has changed since Cold Shot To The Heart?
WALLACE STROBY: She’s had to grow tougher, colder and more ruthless since the events of that first book, just by virtue of what’s happened to her in the interim. At the beginning of Cold Shot she’d never even fired a gun in anger, much less killed anyone, and there have been a lot of bodies under the bridge since then. I wanted her to be aware of that though, with a sense of the cost she’s paid along the way, and acknowledging the inevitable results of the lifestyle she’s chosen….”
MysteryPeople’s Top 10 of 2013
“As usual, I cheated a bit putting together this list and doubled up on books that share the same theme. Also know Mark Pryor’s The Crypt Thief and Duane Swierzcynski’s Point & Shoot could have easily made this list. Also if I had gotten a chance to read some books that time just didn’t permit, like Urban Waite’s Carrion Birds and Adrian McGinty’s I Hear the Sirens In the Streets and Rules of the Wolfe by James Carlos Blake, I probably would have tried to squeeze them in, as well….”
There’s always something going on at MysteryPeople. Head over to the MP blog to check it all out.
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