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Hello Everyone,
Spring is on the horizon and the mystery award season is upon us. You can read about the latest Agatha, Edgar, Tony Hillerman Prize, and Ellery Queen awards at our site as well as some of Mystery Scene's favorites from 2015 in "Fave Raves of the Year" featured in #143 Winter Issue of Mystery Scene.
You'll also find reviews of many of these best books of 2015 at MysterySceneMag.com. Here are just some of the best novel nominees:
We're always interested in hearing your recommendations as well. Please send in your fave raves for our next issue. Email info@mysteryscenemag.com and you'll be entered to win a free book.
Kate Stine
Editor-in-Chief
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 Lisa Lutz on a love of J.D. Salinger and the unexpected
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I have trouble encoding short-term to long-term memory. This is a psychiatrist's way of explaining that I have really crappy recall. When I read a novel I can follow the story, but afterward the details generally elude me...
I couldn't tell you the first book I read (although I recall being a huge Dr. Seuss fan), but I do retain one indelible memory from when I was 11 or 12. It was late at night, my parents were out, and I was reading J. D. Salinger's Nine Stories, specifically "A Perfect Day for Bananafish."
Lisa Lutz's latest is The Passenger (Simon and Schuster, March 2016). www.lisalutz.com
"Writers on Reading" is a special ongoing Mystery Scene series available as a first-look exclusive to our newsletter subscribers.
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 Monday Night Crime
TV's Major Crimes and Better Call Saul
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| | Bob Odenkirk plays Jimmy McGill, a shady lawyer who eventually becomes Breaking Bad's Saul Goodman. |
Monday night television just got more fun and intelligent with the return of two series, Major Crimes and Better Call Saul. While different in many ways, both these shows make a good pairing.
Read why Oline Cogdill loves these two great shows at MysterySceneMag.com
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Online Exclusive Review: The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish
reviewed by Joseph Scarpato
After returning from a five-year stint on the fictitious Venus Island where he lived among the natives there, young anthropologist Archie Meek returns to Australia and the Sydney Museum in 1932 with a marvelous collection of artifacts, hoping for a promotion to curator and a reunion with the young woman he hopes to make his bride.
Unfortunately, things don't seem to be working out. Worse yet, something mysterious and possibly deadly seems to be going on at the museum. Several of the museum's older curators have died or gone missing, and some of the 32 human skulls on the famous Venus Island Fetish mask seem to be somewhat discolored, including one with a decayed tooth that closely resembles the tooth of one of the missing curators. Is it Archie's imagination, or is something sinister going on?
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by Oline Cogdill
Two very different, but compelling characters from two of the best reads of the month.
by Mystery Scene
Congrats to all the nominees!
Did you know that MS features even more reviews online? Look for the tag "Online Exclusive."
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