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Margot Kinberg
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Crime Writer, Professor, Book Lover
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“…the inevitable limitations of music written on a page.” #readindies #discord #jeremycooper
It’s entirely appropriate that I should read a Fitzcarraldo book for #readindies, as this event grew out of a previous one, Fitzcarraldo Editions Fortnight, which Lizzy and I co-hosted back i…
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February 11, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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The Snow Song by Sally Gardner
Women imprisoned by superstition, chained by guilt. Book blurb Perched on a mountain in a land of ancient forests is a village, rife with secrets. Cut off from the outside world it is run by the el…
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February 11, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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Death in a Domino by Roland Pertwee
My interest in Death in a Domino began with its author. As a long-time fan of Doctor Who, the name Roland Pertwee jumped out at me. Roland was not only an accomplished playwright and screenwriter, …
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February 11, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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Today on my blog: In The Spotlight: Inger Wolf’s Dark September – Crime Writer Margot Kinberg share.google/Ezze6ye39RRc...
In The Spotlight: Inger Wolf’s Dark September
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February 10, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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BRAD SOLVES A MURDER!! Cryptic Killers: Murder at Merivale Manor
Last month, I had a lot of fun reading Antony Johnson’s Can You Solve This Murder? (I didn’t), and I looked forward to having more opportunities of playing armchair detective. One of my reader…
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February 9, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Give Your Bad Guy the Best "Why" – Elizabeth Spann Craig
Create compelling villains by developing their motivations and backstory with these tips from mystery writer Shannon Symonds.
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February 9, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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“I will walk into the sea/with no drama…” #readindies #brokensleepbooks
A good number of the indies I follow issue poetry collections, and today I wanted to share a couple of slim volumes released by a press I’ve covered on the Ramblings before – Broken Sle…
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February 9, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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#ReadIndies and #JapaneseLiteratureChallenge: An Explosive Book
Murakami Ryu: From the Fatherland, with Love. Transl. Ralph McCarthy, Charles De Wolf, Ginny Tapley Takemori. Pushkin Press, 2013. I ‘may’ have mentioned before that I used to love the …
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February 9, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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THE CLASSICS CLUB: THE CLASSICS SPIN #43 #THECLASSICSCLUB #CCSPIN lovebooksreadbooks.com/2026/02/08/t... > via @j-lbrbsblogs.bsky.social
THE CLASSICS CLUB: THE CLASSICS SPIN #43 #THECLASSICSCLUB #CCSPIN
Time for a new spin! The Classics Spin #43 The Classics Club2024-2029 My challenge for the Classic Club is to read my list of 50 classics over 5 years 2024-2029. What is the spin? It’s easy. At you…
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February 8, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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Victoria Weisfeld: She Knew Too Much
American travel writer Genie Clarke arrives in Rome chasing the kind of vivid detail that turns a good assignment into a great one. She’s in a cafe when she overhears a conversation by thugs …
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February 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Read Like Nobody’s Watching- Raven’s January Reads
Here we all again with another year of delicious reading ahead of us, and January has got off to a blistering start. Maybe not so fruitful in the sitting my bum down and writing reviews, but for si…
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February 8, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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LitLinks – Elizabeth Spann Craig
LitLinks is a weekly roundup of the top writing links from around the web. It's curated by mystery writer Elizabeth Spann Craig.
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February 8, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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41. THE MALTESE FALCON, with Mark Dillon
Today’s podcast is devoted to THE MALTESE FALCON, the classic novel by Dashiell Hammett and its various film versions including the classic Humphrey Bogart version from 1941 and the two lesser-know…
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February 8, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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‘Cause I’ve Been There Too*
If you think about it, history is really made up of many individual stories. And very often, those individual stories can be more compelling than the larger historical events. So, fiction that focu…
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February 7, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Get a Clue, Dad! 2: Poison is Not Polite (Arsenic for Tea) by Robin Stevens
It’s been two weeks since the first episode of Get a Clue, Dad! dropped. I am happy to report that my co-host, my eleven year old daughter MJ, has been having a great time. In fact, while we …
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February 7, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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#6Degrees of Separation February 2026
I might even be on time this month with the Six Degrees of Separation meme hosted by Kate over at Books Are My Favourite and Best. The starting point for our game of literary links is Flashlig…
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February 7, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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#BlogTour- Paul E. Hardisty-The Hope- @Hardisty_Paul @orendabooks
The year is 2082. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime – descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster – sixteen-year-old Bo…
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February 6, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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THE “MMM GOOD TRIFECTA”: Meta and Murder in the Movies
The latest class I’m taking at Stanford University is chock full of the stuff I love. In “Hollywood Looks at Itself,” we’re exploring films that turn a mirror on the art of filmmaking. Don’t let th…
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February 6, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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#FridayFun: One Sunny Day in Bucharest
It has been quite a harsh winter in Bucharest too: snow, ice, freezing cold, low clouds and fog. I had one sunny day while I was there last week and I made the most of it. The Hotel Lido has been r…
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February 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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“A truncated cone of flame…” #skyhigh #readindies
One indie press I’m always happy to spend time with is British Library Publishing; as is fairly obvious, I’m a huge fan of their Crime Classics and Women Writers imprints, and so #ReadI…
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February 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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The Monster in the Moonlight by Annelise Ryan
Fourth in this great paranormal mystery series.
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February 6, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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Today on my blog: Now You Parlez-Vous Français* – Crime Writer Margot Kinberg share.google/KuvW8LTlaof1...
Now You Parlez-Vous Français*
One of the most important aspects of any culture is its language. That’s just as true in fiction as it is in real life. But that can sometimes present a challenge to authors. On the one hand, autho…
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February 5, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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The Classics Club Spin #43
The Classics Club is holding its 43rd Spin, and my 23rd. The idea is to list 20 of the books on your Classics Club list before next Sunday, 8th February. On that day, the Classics Club will post th…
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February 5, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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Guilty by Definition by Suzie Dent #TheVirtualCrimeBookClub
She knew there’d be ghosts in Oxford, she just didn’t think they’d make their way to the dictionary. Book blurb Oxford, England. After a decade abroad, Martha Thornhill has returned home to the cit…
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February 5, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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FUF-U-NUN-SQUARED-YUM: Home Sweet Homicide
An upcoming project for my Book Club has meant moving around my TBR pile. (I had to rent a forklift!) This is actually good news, for it means I finally get to tackle Home Sweet Homicide by Craig R…
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February 4, 2026 at 2:53 PM