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Joe Ide said yes immediately when I told him Barbara Peters, owner of The Poisoned Pen,  said he had to write a short piece about his favorite crime novels of 2017. Before becoming a writer, Ide  worked as a school teacher, college lecturer, business consultant, and other jobs. One of those jobs was writing screenplays … Read more

Author Clea Simon once covered the music scene, and she loves cats. That sentence is actually a good introduction to her latest suspense novel, World Enough, and to her four mystery series. Clea’s Pru Marlowe pet noir books, and her Theda Krakow series are both published by Poisoned Pen Press. Like her two series from … Read more

When I asked authors if they’d talk about their favorite books of 2017, I made it clear the book didn’t have to have been published in 2017. They just had to read it in 2017.  And, I tried to consider the authors are busy and I didn’t want to take up too much of their … Read more

Last December, I asked some authors to write about their favorite Christmas crime novels. This year, I thought I’d go a different direction. I asked authors if they would write a post about their favorite crime novels read during 2017. All of us who enjoy crime novels are lucky. So many of the authors said … Read more