Thrilling sweepstakes

Want a good read—or eight? My dear publishers are doing a mystery-thriller sweepstakes giveaway, with Island of the Mad tucked in with seven other new crime fiction books. (You suppose I’m allowed to put my name down…?) Enter it here.

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We all win!

Congratulations to Rebecca Weber, Laura from Pennsylvania, Dee Ayres, Karen Ihms, Randall Price, Alison T, Tina Hoggatt, and Jay Roberts—who all won copies of the advanced galleys for Lockdown. You’ll have them very soon, friends! And congratulations to…well, me, I suppose—for the sweetheart of a Kirkus review that met me on my way to the…

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The Somme (4)

I’m giving away a copy of Joe Sacco’s The Great War, what NPR called a “panorama of devastation,” an accordian-fold book, 24 feet long, about day one of The Battle of the Somme. Scroll down to enter. Today is the centenary of the death of Alan Seeger. Seeger was an American poet, an uncle of…

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The Somme (3)

I’m giving away a copy of Joe Sacco’s The Great War, what NPR called a “panorama of devastation,” an accordian-fold book, 24 feet long, about day one of The Battle of the Somme. Scroll down to enter. One of those who survived that horrific first assault, and who endured the prolonged ghastliness of the months…

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Battle of the Somme (2)

I’m giving away a copy of Joe Sacco’s The Great War, what NPR called a “panorama of devastation,” an accordian-fold book, 24 feet long, about day one of The Battle of the Somme. Scroll down to enter. Those in charge—at least, in charge of the British forces—imagined that the German lines would be pounded soft…

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Battle of the Somme (1)

I’m giving away a copy of Joe Sacco’s The Great War, what NPR called a “panorama of devastation,” an accordian-fold book, 24 feet long, about day one of The Battle of the Somme. Scroll down to enter. The Battle of the Somme began 100 years ago today. The Great War started on a summer’s day just…

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Winner

Our winner for the ARC of Jane Steele is…Alison Skier! Alison, I’m sending an email to let you know. Thanks everyone for showing interest, Lyndsay is happy to hear that people are eager! The book is out in April, which will just give you time to finish The Murder of Mary Russell first…

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Jane Steele: Reader, I murdered him.

We loves us some Lyndsay Faye here on Mutterings. Her Timothy Wilde trilogy has been one of my favorite worlds to explore in recent years, while the author herself has become one of my favorite people. Lyndsay now has a new world, publishing next April: a deliciously wicked tale that starts as a riff on Jane Eyre…

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Ten winners!

Congratulations, winners! We drew ten names last week for the new paperback of Dreaming Spies– and they’re headed for the post office today! Congratulations to: Russa, Jane, Norma, Marilyn, Nancy, Laurie, Libby, Seth, Verity, and Diane! And if your name isn’t here, but you’d like a signed or inscribed copy of the paperback anyway, I’ll be heading down to Bookshop Santa Cruz this week…

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It’s Library Week!

Happy National Library Week! Here at LRK Central, every year we celebrate Library Week, often asking you, gentle Reader, to write something about your relationship with libraries: “A Love Letter to My Library” was in 2009, then “My Fantasy Library”, followed by a dose of Piratical Booty. 2012 was “Thrills in the Stacks”, after which…

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