Sunday, January 13

Browsing Around -

Murder off Miami by Dennis Wheatley was originally published in 1936 and then reprinted in the 1970s. Today, it has become a collector’s item. Christopher Fowler wrote about it recently on his blog.

# Anyone miss Max and Freddy, the bicker team of Cologne detectives, from the German Tatort TV series shown here on the MHz Network? Alexandra Alter reviews Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus, newly translated from German.

# Adam Woog's Mystery column this month includes the return of the precocious detective Flavia de Luce.

# British author Warren Ellis debuts his novel Gun Machine which Douglas Wolk reviews at LAT.

# Hatchet Job of the Year: "searching for the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the past twelve months." Shortlist of nominees for the past year revealed.

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