Let’s Share – Crime Fiction Fun Topics!

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“Crime fiction“ includes all sub-genres of mysteries and thrillers and any blend thereof. (FYI: One list of 21 crime fiction sub genres.)

“Fun“ includes reviews, information, suggestions, and your added comments about any of it. Please participate and share by commenting on any “post.”

    If you think of it, check back to this tab regularly. See what is newly posted.

    PARTICIPATE! Your involvement will be fun for you and others.

    Send me mystery-related news you find that should be passed along to the group! Yes, for this to be really successful, we need YOU to share what you are discovering in the way of new books, movies, mystery news items etc etc (see bullets above). HOW? (1) Write it up as an article and email it to me. OR, (2) just send me a link or clipping of something juicy, and I’ll take it from there. My contact information is in all of the regular MBC meeting notices sent to you. What do you want to suggest, recommend, or just share with us? Let me know!

    Now – let’s have fun together! Fun is optional. But I prefer it, don’t you?

    Fun Trivial Facts About Books, Genres, and Publishing

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    Find Extended Answers Below to the Quiz regarding “Mystery Book Publishers and Their Readers” Do the Quiz Before Reading Further. You have Two Ways to Do the Quiz: (1) To use an online version of the quiz, CLICK HERE. Or, (2) to get a PDF of the quiz to read and answer with scrap paper or to print out the quiz CLICK HERE. Do the Quiz Before Reading Further. Then … Continue reading →

    Censured Crime

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    by J. Kingston Pierce on The Rap Sheet (blog) Re-Published here with permission. Banned Books Week 2025 began yesterday and continues through this coming Saturday, October 11. As the organizers explain, “Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores, and schools. Held in the last week of September or first week of October, the annual event … Continue reading →

    My goal was to keep a list of books; I did it.

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    This is only my 2nd post here in 2024. And it relates to my first post back in January where I discussed the number of mystery books that various reviewers I admire read. One of them, George Easter read 121 books in 2023. That is beyond my capacity, but in that post I suggested I might: READ ONE BOOK A WEEK. No, I couldn’t do that at all. My total … Continue reading →

    Is Reading in Your New Year’s Resolution?

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    “Do you read a lot?” you ask. “I don’t know, compared to what?” I respond. On December 13, with still 18 days to go, George Easter, editor of Deadly Pleasures, wrote on his blog: “My reading goal for 2023 was to read 120 mysteries, crime novels and thrillers. Today the count stands at 121 read. So my goal was reached.” Holy book pages, Batman! Gosh all Fiddlesticks! Damn, that’s amazing!! … Continue reading →

    Ngaio Marsh’s DCI Alleyn’s Series

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    I was introduced to Dame (Edith) Ngaio Marsh 19 years ago during my first Christmas in the Mystery Book Club at Manchester Library. The book was appropriately, Tied Up in Tinsel, the 27th book in Marsh’s Detective Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn series. Her first book was in 1934 and her last, the year of her death, was in 1982. Alleyn presents as a British “gentleman detective” – schooled at Eton, … Continue reading →

    Fun Bits in Crime Fiction (End of 2023)

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    Short Stories by Kate Flora It’s the Holidays and Kate Flora invites you to read her four Christmas short stories. If you read nothing else on this page, I hope you will find time to read one of them as they are all feel-good crime fiction stories. Just what the doctor ordered for me, anyway, as the world does seem darker than any of my preceding 76 Christmases. Free for … Continue reading →

    British Police Procedurals

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    “British” – The story takes place in the United Kingdom of Great Britain with British law enforcement officers (LEOs). It can be written by writers that live inside or outside of the UK. “Police Procedural” – It is a sub-genre of crime fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of police officers, police detectives, or law enforcement agencies as the protagonists, as contrasted with other genres that focus on non-police investigators … Continue reading →

    Our Reaction to BETTER THE BLOOD

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    Expect spoilers in the bottom half of this post – the beginning of this post is only a repeat of the information provided about the book that was provided at the start of the month, before the meeting. Then halfway down the page we report some of the discussion from the meeting which likely includes spoilers. Your comments, corrections, additions, clarifications are welcome at the end. We read Better the Blood … Continue reading →