We are now going to include a weekly reminder that there are also new articles up on our other website KRL News & Reviews! Every week there will be book reviews and giveaways, plus sometimes pet articles, theatre articles, and more!
Once again another year has ended, and we take a look back at a few of the many books reviewed in KRL in 2017. All but one of our main reviewers share in this post their top 5 favorite books they reviewed in 2017 (well some of them may fudge on that a bit).
I have been a fan of Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone series from the very beginning--they were some of the first mysteries I ever read as an adult, and 33 books later they are just as good! Marcia Muller not only writes a great mystery, but she writes great characters. After all of these years I feel like I know Sharon, and the secondary characters are just as interesting and diverse.
Another year is coming to a close and the main reviewers of KRL have been asked to pick their top 5 books of 2014, but most of us couldn't keep it to 5! Let us know if you have a few we haven't mentioned you'd like to share about in the comments, and while you are here check KRL's book review section for many more great books that may not have made it on the list!
Last week we reviewed Marcia Muller's latest Sharon McCone mystery, The Night Searchers, and this week we had the privilege of interviewing her.
Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone mystery series were my introduction to contemporary mysteries-- before that I'd only read Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes in my mid teens. I can't believe her 32nd book in the series, Night Searchers, has just come out!
Carolyn Hart has written fifty-one mystery novels and won every major mystery-writing award at least once. Since the days when she wrote her first mystery, Hart has seen many changes in the publishing industry, and that’s where this story begins. “In the 60s and 70s,” said Hart, “New York ignored most American women mystery authors. Publishers thought the American mystery was written by American men with male protagonists and the traditional mystery was written by dead English ladies.”
