murder

Nov 2013 2

More Penguin Mysteries For Your Fall Reading Fun

2013 Articles, Cynthia Chow, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sandra Murphy

Penguin continues to release a lot of great cozies for our mystery reading fun! Here are a few more reviews of books that came out in October and September of 2013! This week we have food, clothing, supernatural and Amish country. A Finder’s Fee: A Missing Pieces Mystery by Joyce and Jim Lavene, Postcards from the Dead by Laura Childs, Bran New Death by Victoria Hamilton, Going Through the Notions by Cate Price, and Murder, Plain and Simple by Isabella Alan. Details on how to win all 5 of these fun mysteries at the end of this post.

Oct 2013 30

Dunbar Hollow: A True Scary Story For Halloween

2013 Articles, Margaret Mendel, Mysteryrat's Maze, Terrific Tales

by Margaret Mendel

Once a year during the summer I go camping in upstate New York, on property my daughter and her husband purchased with a friend. The area is known as Dunbar Hollow. It is a quiet place surrounded by rolling hills, wildflower meadows, acres of rambling blackberry bushes and it’s hard to imagine that a horrific crime once took place here.

Dec 2011 17

Sanity Clause by Steve Brewer: Novella Review

2011 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Pat Browning

P.I. Bubba Mabry needs Christmas cash to buy his wife, a newspaper reporter, a laptop computer. He takes an undercover job at Albuquerque’s new mall, where all he has to do is monitor Santa's workshop for shoplifters, pickpockets, lost kids and perverts posing as Santa. “Albuquerque loves the ‘new’ the way a monkey loves a shiny penny," he says of the hordes flocking through the doors.

Dec 2011 17

The Holiday Bonus: A Christmas Mystery Short Story

2011 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Katherine Fast

For your Christmas pleasure here is another Christmas mystery short story. The Holiday Bonus was first published in 2007 by NEWN (New England Writers Network) where it won a Flash Fiction award.

Nov 2011 5

Hop A Dog: An Original Mystery Short Story

2011 Articles, Books & Tales, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Patricia Brown

Hop A Dog is an original mystery short story that has never before been published and is set in Fresno. Patricia Brown is a member of the San Joaquin Chapter of Sisters In Crime and this is her first published short story, but KRL has some more stories in this series coming up in the next couple months.

May 2011 17

Local Historians Debate the Importance of Valley History

2011 Articles, Books & Tales, Every Other Book, Hometown History, Lorie Lewis Ham, Mysteryrat's Maze, Reedley News

by Lorie Lewis Ham

This weekend a group of local history writers from the Fresno area will be debating whether knowledge of local history improves Fresno and the Valley, in a discussion at the Woodward Branch Library called “Rediscovering the Valley’s Past: A Panel Discussion on Local History by Local Historians.”

Feb 2011 26

Bones: TV Show Review

Books & Tales, Mysteryrat's Maze, Teens, TV

by Stephanie Barnett

Bones, a murder/mystery/comedy staring Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan, a world renowned Forensic Anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institution, and David Boreanaz as Special Agent Seeley Booth, a former U.S. Army Ranger and Special Forces sniper, tells the story of two completely different people coming together to solve murders in an unusual way.