Bookish: Mixed Focus (5#) -

in which a novelist is accused of murder . . .

University of Alabama shooting suspect
Amy Bishop is also a novelist, Jason Boog
reports (with links) at Galley Cat.

# Jeff VanderMeer explores the
2009 Nebula Award finalists at Shelfari.

# Travel writer Paul Theroux has
turned his hand to craft an exotic Mystery
novel which has received mixed reviews:
A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta.

# Nicholas Wroe interviews
Henning Mankell, creator of the Swedish
detective Kurt Wallander, at The Guardian.

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