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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)

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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

DAY OF THE DEAD CRIME FICTION

What holiday could be more fitting to Mysteries than El Dia de los Muertos: Day of the Dead? You'll love this list. Be sure and check my updated Halloween Crime Fiction list for other mysteries that start on Halloween and include Day of the Dead. 

Day of the Dead Crime Fiction

Scrapbook of the Dead by Mollie Cox Bryan
The Day of the Dead by John Creed
Trick or Treason by Kathi Daley
The Day of the Dead: the Autumn of Commissario Ricciardi by Maurizio de Giovanni
Days of the Dead by Barbara Hambly
Sugar Skull by Denise Hamilton
Dios De Los Muertos by Kent Harrington
The Wrong Goodbye by Chris Holm
Day of the Dead by J.A. Jance
Devil's Kitchen by Clark Lohr
Weave Her Thread with Bones by Claudia Long
Day of the Dead by Manuel Luis Martinez
Bread of the Dead by Ann Myers
Oink by Judith Newton
Day of the Dead by Mark Roberts
The Day of the Dead by Bart Spicer

Any titles missing?