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June 14, 2011
June 3, 2011
2011 Arthur Ellis Award Winners Announced!
The Crime Writers of Canada have announced the winners for the 28th annual Arthur
Ellis Awards . The 2011 awards
are for books and short stories published in 2010.
BEST NOVEL
Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Little, Brown UK)
BEST SHORT STORY
Mary Jane Maffini, "So Much in Common" in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
BEST NON FICTION
Stevie Cameron, On the Farm (Knopf Canada)
BEST JUVENILE/YOUNG ADULT
Alice Kuipers, The Worst Thing She Ever Did (HarperCollins)
BEST CRIME WRITING IN FRENCH
Jacques Côté, Dans le...
June 2, 2011
The Witch Of Babylon, Book Review
The Witch Of Babylon
By D.J. McIntosh
Penguin Canada (June 2011)
D.J McIntosh has written a fast paced page-turner in her sizzling debut thriller, The Witch Of Babylon.
John Madison is a Turkish-American art dealer living in New York. His older brother Samuel is killed in a car accident, a car that John was driving, and Samuel was the passenger in. And while John feels a sense of guilt, he also starts to wonder if it was really an accident at all, or were they targeted by someone trying to run t...
May 28, 2011
Flash Fiction Challenge: An Unexpected Guest
Chuck Wendig over at Terribleminds has got another fun flash fiction challenge happening that's got me hooked like crack, making me cheat on my manuscript (something he's chastises us all about). But I've been sucked in. And well...what can I say, it's just about the most fun you can have with your clothes on. The challenge is to write a 1000 word or less flash piece about "an unexpected guest"
An Unexpected Guest
by Julia Madeleine
"I think he's dead," Amy said, panting as she stared at the ma...
May 24, 2011
Review of Josh Stallings Beautiful, Naked & Dead
Beautiful, Naked & Dead
by Josh Stallings
Heist Publishing (March 2011)
In Josh Stallings debut crime novel, Beautiful, Naked & Dead, we meet Moses McGuire a depressed, hard drinking, aging ex-con, and ex-military guy, on the edge of suicide. When he gets an urgent phone call from the one woman in the world he considers his only true friend, Kelly, a waitress at Club Xtasy in East L.A., the "titty bar" where Moses works as a doorman, Mo puts all thoughts of doing himself in on the back burner. ...
Review: She Felt No Pain by Lou Allin
She Felt No Pain
by Lou Allin
RendezVous Crime (2010)
In the sequel to, And On The Surface Die, Canadian author Lou Allin takes us on a suspenseful journey into the heart of Vancouver Island's tourist district at the height of summer with the mysterious death of a homeless man. To RCMP Corporal Holly Martin, the man's death appears to be from an apparent drug overdose. But there's things that don't add up, like the wad of cash in his pocket. As Martin begins to put the pieces together, she is s...
May 13, 2011
Pearce Hansen's Street Raised Re-released
Friday the 13th has always been a damn good and lucky day in my book. And just to prove it, Pearce Hansen's bad-ass novel STREET RAISED, has just been released as an ebook today. I read this book when it first came out in 2006, and it's way up on may favourite list of great reads. And today being the luckiest day of the year, I've had the good fortune to be able to interview the man himself. So the word is your novel Street Raised is being re-released. How did this come about?
When STREET RAIS...
May 10, 2011
A Summer Of Crime In Canada
For all you thriller-writer-conference-going types, Canada has a couple of hot ones this summer. The Bloody Words Convention this year is slated for June 3 to the 5th in beautiful Victoria B.C. The winners for the Arthur Ellis Awards will be announced at the convention.
And this year's annual Scene Of The Crime Festival on Wolf Island takes place Saturday August 13th. Wolf Island, Ontario, is located just across the boarder to the U.S, right where Lake Ontario merges with the St. Lawrence rive...
April 28, 2011
Arthur Ellis Awards Short List Announced
The Crime Writer's of Canada have announced the short list for this year's prestigious Arthur Ellis Awards for best crime fiction, and non-fiction, published in 2010. Indigo book store at Bay and Bloor streets in Toronto hosted the event tonight with a panel of Canadian writers that included Rosemary Aubert, Linwood Barclay, Rick Blechta, Maureen Jennings, Susanna Kearsley, Dorothy McIntosh, Brent Pilkey, Howard Shrier, and Eric Wright.
Here are the nominees for this years Arthur Ellis Awards:...
April 16, 2011
Another Chuck Wendig Flash Fiction Challenge
Another fabulous flash fiction challenge by Chuck Wendig: Five Random Words. Here's the deal. Write a story in 1000 words or less containing the following random words: figure, dusk, flirt, mobile phone, wig.
I Guess You Were Wrong
It was dusk when Karl saw her figure emerge from the alleyway and lurch into the streetlights. She was talking on her mobile, walking in that exaggerated flirty strut she had developed. In spite of the obvious wig of long dark curls, he knew it was her. Josie. That f...
I Guess You Were Wrong
It was dusk when Karl saw her figure emerge from the alleyway and lurch into the streetlights. She was talking on her mobile, walking in that exaggerated flirty strut she had developed. In spite of the obvious wig of long dark curls, he knew it was her. Josie. That f...
