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- from Susan

 

There can never be too many books. There can never be enough time to read all those books. Every day last week, as my Minds colleagues highlighted their favorites, my scribbled list of “must reads” got longer.

 

I agree with everyone that not all the noted books need to be crime fiction, nor do they need to have been published in 2021. In fact, after 2020, when I read all or parts of hundreds of crime fiction novels for the Edgar Awards, I needed to cleanse my palette,...

Some Books What I Did Read

by Abir 

It’s that time of year again. The season when a new variant of covid rears its protein-spiked head and Christmas is cancelled (unless you’re a member of the UK government inner circle). Time for me to tell you about a few of the most memorable books I've read this year and which you should also read if you want us to remain friends.

 

Not all of these are books which came out in 2021. Some are older, and one doesn’t come out till next year. But as with most things, external realities such ...

End-of-the-Year Book Recommendations from James W. Ziskin

It's the time of the year for gift-giving, so give us your book suggestions please!

It’s becoming a tradition for me to put together an end-of-the-year list of books I recommend. This is not a best-of list. I’m not a fan of those since there’s no way people can read everything. So how can they declare some books the best? Not that I don’t admire the books that make those lists. I do. It’s simply that those big names and big successes get plenty of ink elsewhere, so I try to shine a light on excel...

Deck the halls …

Illustration by Willgard Krause

It's the time of the year for gift-giving, so give us your book suggestions please!

by Dietrich

Coming to the end of the year, I wanted to share some memorable reads from the past months. While I haven’t included any books I’ve already recommended in earlier posts, I found the hard part was picking a few from a long list of great books. The ones I ended up with are not all new, and they’re not all crime, but they’re all highly recommended. So, here goes:

Another Kind ...

Reading for Mental Health

 

Reading for Mental Health in 2021, by Terry Shames
 In keeping with our tradition here at 7 Criminal Minds, I’m going to recommend some books I’ve read this year. This has been a particularly chaotic year in my life, so I really depended on my reads to keep my mental health. 
 Most of the books I’ll mention are mysteries, but there is one non-mystery that really grabbed me. Thank you to all these authors on my list for taking me out of my chaotic world and setting me firmly in the world of fictio...

Book Ideas for Your Holiday Shopping!

 It's the time of the year when gift-giving is being considered. Book suggestions please!

Brenda Chapman starting off the gift-giving recommendations.👍🎄🎅

So many great books this year to choose from! With the lockdown, I had a chance to do lots of reading and will give my top picks. I cannot pretend to have read every good book out there, so my choices in no way diminish the value of any other book published this year or past years. Hopefully, amongst the ten bloggers on this site, we'll have read...

Happy Jólabókaflóðið from Skye by Josh Stallings

Q:  If you could spend whatever winter holiday you celebrate anywhere in the world, where would you be? Close your eyes and describe the scene. 

A: The Isle of Skye. 

I can smell the cold clean brine of the Hebridean Sea. Waves roll more than crash on this part of the Waternish peninsula. The sky is grey, I pull up the hood of my duffle coat. The temperature would be considered cold in Southern California, but I prefer to call it “fresh.” Maybe it’s my Nordic blood. There is a Swedish saying, “The...

First Fifteen, by Catriona

If you could spend whatever winter holiday you celebrate anywhere in the world, where would you be? Close your eyes and describe the scene.

I'm not going to answer the question. A. Because I'd only sob and B. because I've got a book coming out and so I'm going to talk about that. (Kind of.)There's a sort of connection, mind you: I wouldn't object to spending Christmas and New Year in any of the places where I've set the fifteen (fifteen! I means seriously, fifteen?) Dandy Gilver novels publishe...

Nadolig Llawen by Cathy Ace

DREAM: If you could spend whatever winter holiday you celebrate anywhere in the world, where would you be? Close your eyes and describe the scene.

Maybe 1965? Rosy cheeked, wasn't I!?
I grew up celebrating Christmas, and continue to do so, though my celebrations have become more secular as the years have passed; I think the last time I attended a church service on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day was about ten years ago. The norm, since I’ve lived in Canada, has been for Husband and I to have Christmas...

Ah, Cabo...

 If you could spend whatever winter holiday you celebrate anywhere in the world, where would you be? Close your eyes and describe the scene.

From Frank

We've spent several winter vacations in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, at an all-inclusive resort. Closing my eyes, what do I sense?

Eighty degrees every day. Sunshine. 

Several pools. The beach. Volleyball. Water polo. 

Music playing, everything from classic rock to Mexican folk... with Toby Keith's "Cabo San Lucas" in heavy rotation.

Good food. Not the grea...