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A well-written cozy mystery!
G. P. Gottlieb recommends Suitable for Framing (Callie Cassidy Mysteries Book 1)
Callie left Denver, where she worked for 20 years as a photojournalist, to return home to the Colorado mountain town where her parents run a small ski resort. She agrees to photograph a town event, bu...
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January 6, 2026 at 6:17 PM
A well-written cozy mystery!
Art history, time travel, and a mystery!
G. P. Gottlieb recommends The Prisoner of Paradise
Nick O’Connor is enjoying a dream trip to Venice with Julia, his beautiful wife, when he hears a mysterious voice calling to him from a Tintoretto painting. Julia fears that he is ill, but Nick become...
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January 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Art history, time travel, and a mystery!
Who's on your All-Time-Favorite-Mystery-Author list?
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I've just added Rhys Bowen as the 27th author on my Favorite-Mystery Authors-of-All-Time page (see below)! The page is by no means complete. Neither Agatha nor Rex (among others) are up yet because...
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December 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Who's on your All-Time-Favorite-Mystery-Author list?
On her 15th birthday, Brigit Quinn learns that she descends from an ancient line of clever, magical Celtic women. This is a charming YA novel about learning who you are, where you’ve come from, and what choices will serve you best.
December 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
On her 15th birthday, Brigit Quinn learns that she descends from an ancient line of clever, magical Celtic women. This is a charming YA novel about learning who you are, where you’ve come from, and what choices will serve you best.
Diane Botnick's beautiful and moving debut novel is about identity, memory, survival, and belonging. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/bec...
Becoming Sarah
Sarah Vogel was born in Auschwitz and liberated at age three, but she has no memories of being there and nobody to tell her the story of her birth or her mother.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Diane Botnick's beautiful and moving debut novel is about identity, memory, survival, and belonging. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/bec...
Theater review (and general criticism of Chicago's Navy Pier)
Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing
Chicago Shakespeare at Navy Pier
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December 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Theater review (and general criticism of Chicago's Navy Pier)
Daria Lavelle's zany, well-written novel is about New York’s food scene, the most esoteric and expensive foods, ghosts, finding a soulmate, and losing one’s soul. #Aftertaste #novel #ghosts #podcast
Aftertaste
In Aftertaste (Simon & Schuster, 2025) Konstantin Duhovny’s father died when he was young, and his mother is too anguished to raise him, so he raises himself, but not very well.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Daria Lavelle's zany, well-written novel is about New York’s food scene, the most esoteric and expensive foods, ghosts, finding a soulmate, and losing one’s soul. #Aftertaste #novel #ghosts #podcast
A unique mystery with time loops and a 1950s feel.
G. P. Gottlieb recommends Who Killed One the Gun?
One the Gun is a Humphry Bogart kind of gumshoe who has a thing for his secretary and is racing against time before his time is up in this clever and unusual mystery. I love the fun names (One the Gun...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A unique mystery with time loops and a 1950s feel.
Looking for a cute mystery about an aging drummer who's talked into planning a robbery while rehearsing for an amusement park show?
Fun City Heist
Mo Melnick has perfect pitch, which didn’t help him in his career as a drummer, but he used to be in a rock band and now his job is sitting on the Jersey Shore renting out chairs and beach umbrellas.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Looking for a cute mystery about an aging drummer who's talked into planning a robbery while rehearsing for an amusement park show?
Just read a lovely mystery set in 1978-
G. P. Gottlieb recommends Part of the Solution: A mystery
A group of young friends is playing at adulthood, sharing a house in a cute Berkshires village while pursuing their dreams. Some work in the café, like Jennifer Morgan, and there are also a poet, a wo...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Just read a lovely mystery set in 1978-
Sarah Cartell was raised in a small town in Canada, in a family of white supremacists. As a college student, she decides to infiltrate a racist group so she can sabotage their despicable plans to hurt others, but her duplicity becomes unbearable.
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Sarah Cartell was raised in a small town in Canada, in a family of white supremacists. As a college student, she decides to infiltrate a racist group so she can sabotage their despicable plans to hurt others, but her duplicity becomes unbearable.
Latest New Books Network podcast - IF THE OWL CALLS by Sharon White. Set in Norway in the 1970s, an investigator heads to the northern region where the “Sami” people live to investigate the sabotage of a dam. While he’s there, a body is found in a hidden ravine. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/if-...
If the Owl Calls
As the Sami community (Norway) struggles to protect ancestral lands from the building of a damn in 1979, Oslo detective Hans Sorensen arrives in the north of the country to investigate sabotage on a d...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Latest New Books Network podcast - IF THE OWL CALLS by Sharon White. Set in Norway in the 1970s, an investigator heads to the northern region where the “Sami” people live to investigate the sabotage of a dam. While he’s there, a body is found in a hidden ravine. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/if-...
G.P. Gottlieb on Being Derailed
G.P. Gottlieb on Being Derailed
Sometimes changing direction is what you need to do
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November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
G.P. Gottlieb on Being Derailed
Thanks to Chicks on the Case for posting my essay: Basing Characters on Friends and Adversaries:
Guest Chick: GP Gottlieb
When I first started writing Battered, the first Whipped and Sipped Mystery, Ruthie Rosin, the character of the protagonist’s best friend and pastry chef, appeared before me almost immediately. She…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Thanks to Chicks on the Case for posting my essay: Basing Characters on Friends and Adversaries:
For 50 years, Leah has written an annual New Year's letter to her fellow teachers' college colleagues in Israel. She falls in love, is unfairly maligned, makes bad decisions, is proud or aggravated about her sons, and is betrayed more than once. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/hap...
Happy New Years
After finishing her teaching degree in Israel, Leah emigrates to the U.S. for a teaching position that she thinks of as temporary. She ends up staying for 5 decades.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
For 50 years, Leah has written an annual New Year's letter to her fellow teachers' college colleagues in Israel. She falls in love, is unfairly maligned, makes bad decisions, is proud or aggravated about her sons, and is betrayed more than once. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/hap...
Thanks To Valerie Biel for posting my essay: Always Wear a Scarf (about a long-ago train incident involving a hemp plant).
Reading, Writing, & Roaming with Author Valerie Biel
Award-winning indie author, book marketing professional, & writing educator Valerie Biel brings you the latest publishing news, writing craft advice, book marketing & promotion tips. . .and occasional...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Thanks To Valerie Biel for posting my essay: Always Wear a Scarf (about a long-ago train incident involving a hemp plant).
Simone is 9 years old when she escapes from Belgium, her father shot by Nazis. Told from different perspectives, Simone in Pieces is a stunning historical novel that spans her life as a refugee, a student, a divorcee, an academic, and someone capable of love. newbooksnetwork.com/simone-in-pi...
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Simone is 9 years old when she escapes from Belgium, her father shot by Nazis. Told from different perspectives, Simone in Pieces is a stunning historical novel that spans her life as a refugee, a student, a divorcee, an academic, and someone capable of love. newbooksnetwork.com/simone-in-pi...
Sister Bernadette, a retired nun, inspires her neighbors at the Abbey Senior Residences to protest a developer who will destroy their neighborhood. When unexplained deaths start happening, Bernie uses all the tricks she learned as a schoolteacher to help the police in this sweet, cozy mystery!
October 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Sister Bernadette, a retired nun, inspires her neighbors at the Abbey Senior Residences to protest a developer who will destroy their neighborhood. When unexplained deaths start happening, Bernie uses all the tricks she learned as a schoolteacher to help the police in this sweet, cozy mystery!
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October 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Here's what I have to say about cliches:
G.P. Gottlieb on Clichés
I met G.P. Gottlieb a year ago at the aborted Left Coast Crime conference. For a conference that barely lasted a day, I got so much out of it, including making friends with Ms. Gottlieb. She is easily...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Here's what I have to say about cliches:
Claudia Rose confronts two mysteries at her H.S. reunion: the unsolved case of a missing classmate and the death of a teacher. Claudia's skills as a forensic handwriting analyst and Sheila Lowe’s dark imagination had me turning pages long past bedtime. #partnersincrimeblogtours
October 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Claudia Rose confronts two mysteries at her H.S. reunion: the unsolved case of a missing classmate and the death of a teacher. Claudia's skills as a forensic handwriting analyst and Sheila Lowe’s dark imagination had me turning pages long past bedtime. #partnersincrimeblogtours