Cold Winter Nights
A Lake George Mystery
by Anne White
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village of
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New Site, New Issue, More Great Mystery
Spring Issue #114 Out Now!  | Mystery Scene is welcoming spring with a new issue and a brand new website. Go there for web-exclusive content like Tom Nolan's piece "Watchlist: A Serial Thriller" about the collaboration between 21 of the world's best thriller writers including Jeffery Deaver, Lisa Scottoline, and Joseph Finder. City of Dragons author Kelli Stanley was kind enough to dub the new site "really cool" when she stopped in at the Barnes & Noble Mystery forum hosted by Mystery Scene last week. We hope you like it, too!
Spring Issue #114 featuring the very funny Lisa Lutz, author of The Spellmans series, should be arriving soon. You'll find a chat with Cara Black about her Aim�e Leduc series set in Paris, a wonderful remembrance of Donald Westlake from Lawrence Block, a survey of Great Gangster Movies, an appreciation of Lee Child's iconic Jack Reacher, and a lot more. If you don't get MS, you can see the entire table of contents with select online articles here.
As newsletter subscribers you also get first look at our "Authors on Reading" series, which begun last month with Carolyn G. Hart. This month we hear from Elizabeth George. Read on to find out about the book that made a big impact on the author of the Inspector Lynley novels, including the newly released This Body of Death.
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Kate Stine
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Writers on Reading: Elizabeth George
"I hold no book dearer than Possession."
 I would have to say that I hold no book dearer than Possession by A.S. Byatt. For me, this book has it all. It's a real writer's book, which is one of the reasons I love it so much. The term tour de force is over-applied in the writing world, but no other term could be used to describe Possession. In one breathtaking piece of work, A.S. Byatt writes a Victorian era love story, a modern-era mystery, an epistolary novel, and a number of pieces of Victorian poetry penned by two different poets. All of this Byatt does while maintaining the individual voices of each of the characters.
It is a dazzling work, a sleight of hand unlike anything I've ever read. John Fowles went far with his turn in this direction when he wrote The French Lieutenant's Women. But Byatt takes it into the stratosphere. It's special to me because it's a masterpiece. Really. That's it. It blew me out of the water. I always read "up" and I don't think I've ever read any "upper."
 Elizabeth George's latest Inspector Lynley novel is
This Body of Death (Harper, April 2010).
www.elizabethgeorgeonline.com
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How Sweet It Is!
And the 2010 Edgar Award winners are...
It's sweet at the top! Congratulations to this year's Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award winners, announced last week. The winners are...
Best Novel
The Last Child, by John Hart
Best First Novel
In the Shadow of Gotham, by Stefanie Pintoff
Best Paperback Original
Body Blows, by Marc Strange
Best Critical/Biographical Book
The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives, edited by Otto Penzler
Best Fact Crime
Columbine, by Dave Cullen
Best Short Story
"Amapola" in Phoenix Noir, by Luis Alberto Urrea
Best Young Adult Novel
Reality Check, by Peter Abrahams
Best Juvenile
Closed for the Season, by Mary Downing Hahn
Best Television Episode Teleplay
"Place of Execution," Teleplay by Patrick Harbinson
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
"A Dreadful Day" by Dan Warthman from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Simon & Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark Award
Awakening by S.J. Bolton
Grand Master
Dorothy Gilman
Raven Awards
Mystery Lovers Bookshop, owned by Mary Alice Gorman & Richard Goldman, Oakmont, Pennsylvania
Zev Buffman, International Mystery Writers' Festival
Ellery Queen Award
Poisoned Pen Press, owned by Barbara Peters & Robert Rosenwald
Pictured: Edgar Allan Poe at the top of the MWA Edgar's banquet dessert courtesy of Neil Numberman.
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Overheard 
"There are no happy
endings ... there are only
happy people."
- Mrs. Emily Pollifax, Mrs. Pollifax
on the China Station, 1983 by Dorothy Gilman
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