Reviews

Thank you, Publishers Weekly!

TRUE GREY is "intriguing... authentic and appealing." I'll take it!REVIEWAuthor: CLEA SIMONTitle: TRUE GREYPublication: PUBLISHERS WEEKLYIssue: 22ND OCTOBER 2012True Grey: A Dulcie Schwartz Feline Mystery, Clea Simon. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8215-8An...

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In which I get to chat with Michael Chabon

Only by phone, but still... fun.(Full link here)"Michael Chabon has a thing for pop culture. From comic books (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay) to Sherlock Holmes (The Final Solution), he's taken our collective pulse through our amusements. In Telegraph...

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They’re HERE!

I just sent off the ms. for Dulcie #6, "Grey Dawn," went shopping and came home to find a box on my doorstep! True story!(And you can pre-order it here.)

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“CATS” makes the Washington Post!

Last spring, when both Grey Expectations and Cats Can't Shoot came out, some things went wrong. For starters, a mix-up with the printer meant that most of the review copies of "Cats," my second Pru Marlowe pet noir, did not go out. That meant, no Publishers Weekly...

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Busy, busy, busy…

Sorry for the radio silence, folks! I've been busy: Sent off a slightly tweaked ending to Pru #3 Parrots Prove Deadly that ups the tension and drama (the idea came to me while relaxing on the beach, go figure). And now I'm busily revising Dulcie #6, Grey Dawn (there's...

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Tana French’s “Broken Harbor”

Love the author. This new book... not so much. Here's my review from the Boston Globe:At her best, Tana French writes characters. Her dark, moody novels may be categorized as crime fiction, but they rise and fall on the twisted and often conflicted survivors who...

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