The Poisoned Pen Bookstore
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If you’re hooked on Susan Elia MacNeal’s series with Maggie Hope, mathematician and British spy during WWII, you’ll be glad to hear that her latest, His Majesty’s Hope, is launching May 14th. Maggie’s deeper into danger than ever. This is a WWII thriller you won’t want to miss; exciting and, despite the subject matter, not [...]
For all writers and readers of historical fiction who live in Arizona: I am forming an Arizona chapter of the Historical Novel Society, the literary society, based in both the US and UK, devoted to promoting the enjoyment of historical fiction. Chapters have been springing up around the country the last couple years, and I’ve [...]
David will be signing at The Poisoned Pen on May 7th at 7pm. You can attend in person or virtually. (Click for details)
Charles Lenox is back in another of this extended series of gentle, Victorian era mysteries. Lenox is now married, a father, and a Member of Parliament. Though he yearns for the detective work he has left behind, he feels his dedication to improving the conditions of the poor through legislation is too important to give [...]
This is one of those books I’ve been meaning to read, but didn’t get to until now, published in 2006. Here’s a somewhat meandering review, more a collection of my reactions/thoughts than a formal review. Margaret George writes historical fiction set in a number of periods from Cleopatra to Elizabeth I. I worried from a [...]
One of the wonderful aspects of becoming a published mystery author is being on the inside of a great community of writers and thinkers and personalities. I expected that once I had a real book in hand with my name on it, I’d be part of the “Mystery Authors Club.” Turns out, I didn’t need [...]
Imagine watching your loving, nearly perfect mother stand on the front stairs of your farmhouse, put the baby down behind her and stab a man to death and then act as if this brutal act had little to do with her? You’d probably accept your mother’s explanation of self-defense against a random attack. And so [...]
I’ll always be there for you in e. I’d like to always be there for you in print, too. MARCH 26, 2013 by Dana I’m home now, after a series of blowout events for Bad Blood in Scottsdale, Tempe, Cave Creek, Prescott, Denver, Portland, Mesa, Tucson and Palmer, Alaska. I heard this question almost everywhere I went, at bookstores, libraries, the ASU writers conference, [...]
AN INDIE NEXT PICK FOR APRIL 2013 “Death visits small-town New Bremen, Minnesota, in 1961 and particularly touches 13-year-old Frank Drum and his family. Frank, his Methodist minister father, his “fed up with God” mother, his Julliard-bound older sister, and his inseparable, perceptive, but stuttering 10-year-old brother endure a summer of repeated tragedy that tests [...]
