Bookish: MURDER & MAYHEM (4#) -

Akashic has published Istanbul Noir, one of the latest in its Noir Cities theme. It is edited by Mustafa Ziyalan and Amy Spangler with 16 original stories. Glenn Harper writes more about it.

"Most of the stories are fittingly dark,
though a couple are lit by a macabre humor." [pw]

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True Crime: Death in a Prairie House
by William R Drennan revisits the
Taliesin Murders; reviewed by Jason Shamai.

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:: Judith Woods interviews
mystery writer Lynda La Plante. [tgraph]

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