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Do Some Damage Further On Down The Road
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Mystery Fanfare Valentine's Day Mysteries
Here's another holiday mystery list for one of my favorite holidays, Valentine's Day . I'm posting early, so you'll have plenty of time to get...
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Do Some Damage Further On Down The Road
By Jay Stringer I finally saw The Road at the weekend. I didn ’t hold off for any particular reason, I wasn ’t to scared...
by
Jay Stringer
89 minutes ago
Detectives Beyond Borders We have lots of winners ...
... but only two get books. So many eye-opening and thought-provoking replies poured in for Friday's competition about fallen cities that I'll award two copies...
by
Peter Rozovsky
96 minutes ago
Crime Watch Good Reading magazine: crime fiction-related contents in the February issue
As I said last year , one of the magazines I write reviews and books-related features for is Good Reading , the Australian-based "magazine for...
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Kiwicraig
2 hours ago
Women of Mystery Two Sentence Tuesday - Those Twittering Twitterers
I've often said I don't use Twitter because my first thought is rarely my best thought and the temptation to just blurt stuff out might...
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Laura K. Curtis
2 hours ago
The Lipstick Chronicles My Fan, Richard Simmons. My Fear, Anne Rice.
By Sarah The email from Richard Simmons - yes, that's right THE Richard Simmons or, as he referred to himself, "Mr. Sweatin' To the Oldies...
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Book Tarts
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The Lady Killers Valentine's Day, lace, and chocolate
Ann Parker here, Monday's child on the Lady Killers. Valentine's Day approacheth, so I'm sending you to a nifty site The Scrap Album, where you...
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Ann Parker
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Inkspot Looking to the Elements
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Julia Buckley
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