Scottish Mysteries: Mystery Readers Journal

Mystery Readers Journal: Scottish Mysteries (Volume 31:3) is a great issue, filled with articles, reviews, and essays by your favorite writers. It's still available as a PDF. Buy the PDF.  Here's the Table of Contents and a few sample articles. Enjoy! 

MYSTERY READERS JOURNAL:
SCOTTISH MYSTERIES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

• Performing Scottish Crime: Ian Rankin’s Dark Road by Charlotte Beyer
• The Many Hues of Tartan Noir by Nancie Clare
• Escape Through Idyllic Scotland by Ann-Marie Lamb
• Tartan Noir: Scottish Mystery Fiction by Chris Longmuir
• Beautiful Mysterious Scotland by Patricia Smiley

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

• Crime Writing — Scotland’s Other National Export by Lin Anderson
• Beatrice Who? Some Thoughts on Scotland by Rhys Bowen
• Rain and Scottish Crime Writing by G.J. Brown
• The Deadly Flower of Scotland by Lillian Stewart Carl
• At Home in Edinburgh by C.S. Challinor
• Casanova and the Scottish Connection by Myra Duffy
• Finding My Scottish Essence by David Hagerty
• By Yon Bonnie Braes by Jo A. Hiestand
• A Brief History of Bodysnatching by Anna Lee Huber
• My Search To Belong by Coco Ihle
• Scottish Heads and Scottish Hearts by Paul Johnston
• Mystery and Murder in the Heart of Scotland by Chris Longmuir
• Ghosts, Whisky, Fire… and a Single Flower by Bonnie MacBird
• The Angel’s Share by Diane Gilbert Madsen
• The Emergence of Muirteach Macphee by Susan McDuffie
• Writing About Scotland by Peter May
• Land of My Heart by Catriona McPherson
• Grunt Goes to Canada by Grant McKenzie
• What’s in a Name? by T. Frank Muir
• Childhood Adventures in Scotland by Gigi Pandian
• A Tale of Haggis, Neeps, and Tatties by Martha Reed
• Scotland the Grave by Craig Robertson
• My Heart’s in the Highlands by A.D. Scott
• An American Guide to Scotland by Alexandra Sokoloff
• Shetland? But what do you find to do with yourself up there… ? by Marsali Taylor
• Is This Edinburgh? by Marty Wingate

COLUMNS

• Mystery in Retrospect: Reviews by Sandie Herron, John Patrick Lang, Lesa Holstine, L.J. Roberts, Craig Sisterson
• Scotland and British Crime Fiction: Some Observations by Philip L. Scowcroft
• Children’s Hour: Scotland by Gay Toltl Kinman
• Crime Seen: Detecting Scotsmen by Kate Derie
• In Short: The Short Scottish Mystery by Marvin Lachman
• Scotland’s Classic Mysteries by Cathy Pickens
• From the Editor’s Desk by Janet Rudolph

Cartoon of the Day: Cat Valentine

 

BLOODLANDS, SEASON 2 release date

BLOODLANDS, Season 2, premieres on Acorn TV.

Episodes 1-2 Premiere February 6; two episodes premiere weekly through February 20

This gritty Irish crime thriller features DCI Tom Brannick (James Nesbitt). Tom Brannick returns as the murder of a crooked accountant unravels a trail of greed that threatens to expose the true identity of the legendary assassin codenamed Goliath. Between Tom and redemption stands the accountant’s widow, Olivia (Victoria Smurfit), whose intentions may be far from innocent. 

Cartoon of the Day: Cats

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AGATHA AWARD NOMINATIONS: Malice Domestic

MALICE DOMESTIC announced the Agatha Award Nominees. Congratulations to all. The Agatha Awards will be presented Saturday, April 29, 2023, during Malice Domestic 35.

Best Contemporary Novel

Bayou Book Thief, Ellen Byron (Berkley Prime Crime)
Death By Bubble Tea, Jennifer J. Chow (Berkley)
Fatal Reunion, Annette Dashofy (Level Best Books)
Dead Man's Leap, Tina de Bellegarde (Level Best Books)
A World of Curiosities, Louise Penny (Minotaur)

Best Historical Novel

The Counterfeit Wife, Mally Becker (Level Best Books)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death, Amanda Flower (Berkley)
The Lindbergh Nanny, Mariah Fredericks (Minotaur)
In Place of Fear, Catriona McPherson (Mobius)
Under a Veiled Moon, Karen Odden (Crooked Lane Books)

Best First Novel

Cheddar Off Dead, Korina Moss (St. Martin’s)
Death in the Aegean, M. A. Monnin (Level Best Books)
The Bangalore Detectives Club, Harini Nagendra (Constable)
Devil’s Chew Toy, Rob Osler (Crooked Lane Books)
The Finalist, Joan Long (Level Best Books)
The Gallery of Beauties, Nina Wachsman (Level Best Books)

Best Short Story

"Beauty and the Beyotch," Barb Goffman (Sherlock Holmes Magazine, Feb. 2022)
"There Comes a Time," Cynthia Kuhn, Malice Domestic Murder Most Diabolical (Wildside Press)
"Fly Me to the Morgue," Lisa Q Mathews, Malice Domestic Mystery Most Diabolical (Wildside Press)
"The Minnesota Twins Meet Bigfoot," Richie Narvaez, Land of 10,000 Thrills, Bouchercon Anthology (Down & Out Books)
"The Invisible Band," Art Taylor, Edgar & Shamus Go Golden (Down & Out Books)

Best Non-Fiction

The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators, Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)
The Handbook to Agatha Christie: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie, Mary Anna Evans and J. C. Bernthal (Bloomsbury Academic)
The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie, Carla Valentine (Sourcebooks)
Promophobia: Taking the Mystery Out of Promoting Crime Fiction, Diane Vallere Ed. (Sisters in Crime)
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, Lucy Worsley (Pegasus Crime)

Best Children's/YA Mystery

Daybreak on Raven Island, Fleur Bradley (Viking Books for Young People)
In Myrtle Peril, Elizabeth C. Bunce (Algonquin Young Readers)
#shedeservedit, Greg Herren (Bold Strokes Books)
Sid Johnson and the Phantom Slave Stealer, Frances Schoonmaker (Auctus Publishers)
Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade, Nancy Springer (Wednesday Books)