Happy anniversary, PW blogger Barbara Vey!

Wow, can it have been two years? Publishers Weekly “Behind Her Book” blogger Barbara Vey is celebrating two years of blogging about all sorts of fun books — romance, mysteries, you name it. She’s having QUITE the party on her blog today, with...

THANK YOU, PW!!

Publishers Weekly, Feb. 2, 2009Probable Claws Clea Simon. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-59058-564-1Music journalist Theda Krakow once again proves a feisty and determined sleuth in Simon’s lively fourth cat-themed mystery (after 2007’s Cries and...

You’re dead to me!

Oh, lordy. My ARC (advance reading copies) of Probable Claws have arrived. The new mystery doesn’t publish until April, but these are the advances that go out to Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Kirkus, and other long-lead reviewers. Because...

Dexter loses his rock ‘n’ roll…

At least, that’s more or less the premise of Jeff Lindsay’s wonderful new Dexter in the Dark, which I reviewed in today’s Boston Globe. Is it a departure from the previous Dexter books? Well, yes, but what would you expect in the third of a...