I spent thirty years of my life in a part of the world dedicated to the strawberry: Watsonville, home of Driscoll berries.  However, it was not until I came to England that I met the true berry, the English berry, pale and acidic and short-lived.  When you buy a packet of them here, the label…

Next Monday we’ll do a drawing from the list of newsletter subscribers, giving away two copies of the ARC of Dreaming Spies.  If you’re not signed up for the News, you can do so here. And good luck!

Today at BoucherCon, we’re having a launch party for In the Company of Sherlock Holmes.   There are thirteen prose stories in the collection–but there are also Gahan Wilson drawings, and one graphic story by Leah Moore and John Reppion: In the Company of Sherlock Holmes publishes November 11. You can pre-order a copy from: Poisoned…

Among the corners of the LRK web site, tucked in among the book excerpts and cover art, are some essays concerning the essence of what I do.  Why, for example, do I write crime fiction? So why the mystery? Because it is a strong form that nonetheless allows me to do what I wish with…

The first week’s Library Giveaway of a Book Club in a Box goes to the LA system’s Pacific Palisades Library–which has its very own Mysterious Book Club!  The library will get a whole box of Russells, as soon as they choose which title they want to read How about you–would your library like a box…

I like to mix things up a little for my liturgical celebrations, so I made a Chinese recipe that actually would be great for Halloween: Then I deviled them, which interrupts the pretty surface a bit but made them quite tasty: They’re not hard to make.  Thoroughly hard boil your eggs (I have best luck…