MYSTERY READERS JOURNAL: Big City Cops II (33:4)

The latest issue of Mystery Readers Journal: Big City Cops II is now available. Check out the Table of Contents and links below. Great articles and reviews by and about your favorite authors. Thanks to everyone who contributed to make this such a terrific issue, especially Kate Derie, Associate Editor.


MYSTERY READERS JOURNAL: 
Big City Cops II (Volume 33:4)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Cop Writers: John Wainwright by Paul Bishop
• Wambaugh’s Big City Cops by John Patrick Lang
• Clip, Clop—Ten-Foot Cops by Elise Warner

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

• My Cop Is a Good Cop by Alvin Abram
• The Truth Is Coming: Lie Catchers in the Big City by Paul Bishop
• New York City Cops—No More Mean Streets by Casey Barrett
• My Heroes Have Always Been Lawmen by Michael A. Black
• What is Found by Trudy Nan Boyce
• How Technology Is Affecting Big City Cops by Rex Burns
• When Everyone Else Runs the Other Way by Tracy Clark
• From Fact to Fiction by Miles Corwin
• Policing the Peoples’ Republic of Berzerkeley by Jim Doherty
• Finding the Cops and Killers Within by Barbara Fradkin
• “You Belong to the City” by Brian Freeman
• Proof of Procedure by J.A. Jance
• Of Nicetown and the Devil’s Pocket by Richard Montanari
• A Police Officer’s Trauma by Radine Trees Nehring
• Bringing the Silver Rush (Further) West—San Francisco’s Officers in Blue in 1881 by Ann Parker
• The PI and the Cop: A Marriage Made in Heaven? by Clive Rosengren
• The Sketch Artist by Jonathan Santlofer
• Big City Perspective, a Greek Island Life by Jeffrey Siger
• Where Ideas Come From by Brian Thiem
• Realism by Mark Zubro

COLUMNS

• Mystery in Retrospect: Reviews by Craig Sisterson, L.J. Roberts, Maria Kelson, Lesa Holstine
• The Big Tens From the Big Towns—Part Two by Jim Doherty
• The Children’s Hour: Big City Cops by Gay Toltl Kinman
• Just the Facts: Out of the End of a Pen by Jim Doherty
• Crime Seen: What To Watch Where by Kate Derie
• Real-Life Big City Cops by Cathy Pickens
• From the Editor’s Desk by Janet Rudolph

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MYSTERY READERS JOURNAL: Big City Cops I (33:3)

The latest issue of Mystery Readers Journal: Big City Cops I is now available. Check out the Table of Contents and links below. Great articles and reviews by and about your favorite authors. The final issue for 2017 will be Big City Cops I.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to make this such a terrific issue, especially Kate Derie, Associate Editor.  

Contributors, if you don't see your article in this issue, it will appear in the next issue, Big City Cops II.

MYSTERY READERS JOURNAL: 
Big City Cops I (Volume 33:3)

Buy this back issue! Available in hardcopy or as a downloadable PDF.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Let’s Be Careful Out There… Wherever the Hell We Are by Jim Doherty
• The Crossing by Michael Connelly: A Book Group Discussion by Roberta Rood

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

• Cops These Days Aren’t What They Used To Be by Rennie Airth
• Big City Cops: Two Takes by Rona Bell and Sean McCluskey
• Cops and Writers by Paul Bishop
• A Good Fall(en) Guy by Craig Faustus Buck
• Chinatown Crime Time by Henry Chang
• My Heroes by Tim Chapman
• Cleveland’s “Untouchable” Top Cop by Max Allan Collins
• Why I Turned My Back on Big City Cops by Garry Disher
• When Big City Cops Have Four Paws by Sara Driscoll
• The Changing Face of Nashville by J.T. Ellison
• Are You Feeling Safe? by Lyndsay Faye
• Becoming Lou in La-La-Land by Rachel Howzell Hall
• Crime Fighter Turned Crime Writer by Isabella Maldonado
• Bronson: a Literary Crush by L.C. Hayden
• You Can Take the Big City Cop Out of the City, But… by Adrian Magson
• Lt. Sigrid Harald, NYPD by Margaret Maron
• Limitations of Big City Cops by Neil Plakcy
• The Stories I Tell by Lisa Marie Redmond
• Cold Case Prosecution by Brian Thiem
• Lizzie Borden: Murder—and Mistakes? by Christine A. Verstraete

COLUMNS

• Mystery in Retrospect: Reviews by Lesa Holstine, Michael Mayo, L.J. Roberts, Craig Sisterson
• The Big Tens From the Big Towns—Part One by Jim Doherty
• Just the Facts: Frank Hamer—Houston Heat by Jim Doherty
• The Children’s Hour: Big City Cops by Gay Toltl Kinman
• In Short: Big City Cops by Marvin Lachman
• Crime Seen: Metropolice by Kate Derie
• From the Editor’s Desk by Janet Rudolph

Call for Articles: Big City Cops

CALL FOR ARTICLES: Big City Cops

The next two issues of Mystery Readers Journal (Volume 33:3 & 4) will focus on Big City Cops. Looking for reviews, articles, and Author! Author! essays. Reviews: 50-250 words; Articles: 250-1000 words; Author! Author! essays: 1000-2500 words. Author essays are first person, about yourself, your books, and the 'Big City Cops' connection. Think of it as chatting with friends and other writers in the bar or cafe about your work and your Big City Cops connection. Add title and 2-3 sentence bio/tagline.  

Deadline: September 10. Let me know if you need more time. We will have two issues. There will be a second deadline.

Send to: Janet Rudolph, Editor. janet @ mysteryreaders.org. Please forward this request to anyone you think should be included.

SUBSCRIBE TO MYSTERY READERS JOURNAL: 2017 (Midwest Mysteries, Murder in Wartime, Big City Cops 1, Big City Cops 2)

Many back issues of Mystery Readers Journal are available as single copies in hardcopy or PDF.

Call for Articles for 2017 (Volume 33): Big City Cops 1, Big City Cops 2). Have titles, articles or suggestions for these upcoming issues? 

Want to write an Author! Author! essay?  

email Janet Rudolph  janet @ mysteryreaders.org