Books: Ripple Effects (4#) -

The 7/22 Massacre -
What would Varg Veum do?

Andrew Anthony reports the reactions of some of Norway's top mystery authors to the mass murder that took place on an island there last July.

# An aging, recently retired police detective goes up against a New Age cult guru in The Great Leader by Jim Harrison; reviewed by Tim McNulty.

# Eddie Vega and some of his pals have started a new online publication called Noir Nation: International. Dennis Tafoya interviews one of the editors working on it.

They've got quite a collection of sidebar links to other blogs and such in French and in other languages.

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