Crime / Mystery Books & Stories: Buy or Read Any Recently?

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I also picked up these two books as well.

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Recently got delivery of:

The Complete Cases of the Cass Blue, Volume 1
by John Lawrence

Now waiting to receive delivery of:

Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith
by Robert Reeves

and

The Complete Cases of the Secrets, Inc., Volume 1
by Frederick C. Davis

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And I got delivery from Amazon yesterday of:

The Big Book of the Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett, edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett
(Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Original, November 2017)

and

Murder's Masquerade: The Complete Cases of Mike & Trixie, Volume 1 by T.T. Flynn <The Argosy Library>
(© 2021 Popular Publications, an imprint of Steeger Properties, LLC)

for myself;
I also got

Death of a Wicked Witch by Lee Hollis
<Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mystery - #13>

for my Mom.

It's going to be one of the books I give to her in her Trick-or-Treat pumpkin bucket for Halloween later next month (along with some chocolate candy, of course).

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Got delivery today of two more books reprinting old pulp magazine stories:

The Complete Cases of The Rambler, Volume 1
by Fred MacIsaac

and

The Complete Cases of the Secrets, Inc., Volume 2
by Frederick C. Davis

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The Witch Elm by Tana French. It was a recommendation. Would not have picked it up otherwise. Hope I ll also make it through Even Dogs In The Wild and The Witching Hour in Oktober. Maybe I pick up People of Darkness since it gets a TV adaption.

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Got delivery last week of

The Crime That Binds by Laurie Cass
<Bookmobile Cat Mystery #10>

for my Mom. It came out at the start of this month, though it was originally due out this past May. (And I had pre-ordered it back in January!)

Now waiting for delivery of

The Complete Cases of Bookie Barnes
by Robert Reeves

which I bought for myself online on Columbus Day.

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Borrowed some more new cozy mysteries from a library recently for my Mom:

Dashing Through the Snowbirds by Donna Andrews
(A Meg Langslow Mystery)


A Dark and Snowy Night by Sally Goldenbaum
(Seaside Knitters Society Mystery)

and


The Plot and the Pendulum by Jenn McKinlay
(A Library Lover's Mystery)

Coming out next week is Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine by Janet Evanovich in the Stephanie Plum series, which she also reads. Not soon how soon that will be available from the library, but I did already put in a reserve on it.

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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/ has a 25% off sale for pre-ordered books (the sale ends tonight), so I pre-ordered three paperback mysteries due out in August for my Mom:

Death of a Clam Digger by Lee Hollis
(A Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mystery #16)


Nine Lives and Alibis by Cate Conte
(A Cat Café Mystery #7)

and A Troubling Tail by Laurie Cass
(Bookmobile Cat Series #11)

So I'll probably use one of those for part of her Halloween pumpkin pail and the other two in her Christmas stocking.
(Still have to come up with books for her Easter basket, Mother's Day, and her birthday, all of which are before those books are due to be published.)

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I ordered the upcoming C.J. Box thriller Storm Watch using the sale. There's so many books by authors I read that are coming out that I just can't buy them all right now.

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I ordered the upcoming C.J. Box thriller Storm Watch using the sale. There's so many books by authors I read that are coming out that I just can't buy them all right now.

I was just focusing on specific paperback series I know my Mom has liked since those aren't as likely to be available from the area libraries I use.

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Went to a library book sale yesterday and picked up:
- Lullaby by Ed McBain <87th Precinct> (© 1989 / first Avon Books printing January 1990)

Also got some books for my Mom to try:
- Hearse and Buggy by Laura Bradford <An Amish Mystery #1> (2012)
- Deck the Hallways by Kate Carlisle <Fixer-Upper Mystery #4> (2016)
- Murder, She Barked by Krista Davis <Paws and Claws Mystery #1> (2013)
- Murder in a Cape Cottage by Maddie Day <Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery #4> (2022)
- Dead as a Door Knocker by Diane Kelly <House-Flipper Mystery #1> (2019)

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I went to the library book sale and got State of the Union by Brad Thor and Assassin's Run by Ward Larsen.

Then I went to the library and got Paige Shelton's Fateful Words.

Found out that I'm getting an advance copy of Joanna Schaffhausen's Dead And Gone.

Got contacted by an author on Facebook and they are sending me a signed copy of their latest book.

Picked up a copy of the new Alfred Hitchcock Mystery magazine that has a short story by Nikki Knight from her Vermont Radio series.

And then received in the mail on Saturday a finished hardcover copy of the new Jack Carr thriller Only The Dead, which is not due out until May 16th.

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Looking for some new mystery novels to buy and read?

The Youtube series We Are What We Read has posted its 3rd episode.

This series gathers guests from across the mystery community from authors, fans, reviewers, bloggers and more.

Episode 3 features John Copenhaver, Robyn Gigl, Sherry Harris, Grace Koshida, James L'Etoile, Delia Pitts, LynDee Walker and in a bit of shameless self-promotion...me.

My part begins with my introduction around the 34:10 mark.

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Got delivery yesterday of

The Case of the Rolling Bones
(A Perry Mason Mystery) by Erle Stanley Gardner
(originally published in 1939 /
reissue from Penzler Publishers due out November 7th)

which I pre-ordered from Barnes & Noble back in April.

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Got delivery yesterday of

The Case of the Rolling Bones
(A Perry Mason Mystery) by Erle Stanley Gardner
(originally published in 1939 /
reissue from Penzler Publishers due out November 7th)

which I pre-ordered from Barnes & Noble back in April.

Nice.

I helped arrange an in-person author visit to the Mystery Book Club I co-run at the local library for this month. We'll have Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) there for a discussion about MURDER ON CAPE COD, the first book in the Cozy Capers Book Group mystery series plus a Q&A about her books in general as well.