VERA, Season 12, will premiere on BritBox January 29! YAY! We have a date at last!
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
VERA, SEASON 12, RELEASE DATE!
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
DI RAY, Season 1 on PBS
DI RAY, Season 1
Monday, January 23, 2023
Mystery in Asia: Mystery Readers Journal

- Judge Dee: a Look at Van Gulik’s Chinese Master Detective by Michael Kurland
- Ethel Proudlock and the Murder of William Steward by Roberta Rood
- A Yen for Mystery: Four Japanese Women by John Apostolou
- Flatfoots in the Far East by Jim Doherty
- White House Travel and Intrigue in Asia by Karna Small Bodman
- Panic and Desperation in Hong Kong by Susan Blumberg-Kason
- The Apothecary Shop by Laura Boss
- The East Is Different by John Burdett
- Digging into the Thai Underbelly by Colin Cotterill
- The Crimson Masquerade by Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson
- The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay
- Writing the Past by Dale Furutani
- Armchair-Traveling in China by Chris Goff
- Darkness in the Land of Smiles by Timothy Hallinan
- Murder at the Grand Raj Palace: Why Crime Writers Love a Good Hotel by Vaseem Khan
- From the Mountain to the City by Elsa Hart
- Talking Story—Japan by Barry Lancet
- Mysteries of the Orient by Joan K. Lacy
- Prawns in the Game by Ed Lin
- Murder, Money and Music in Hong Kong by Charles Philipp Martin
- Adventures in South Korea by J. R. Lindermuth
- Noodle in a Haystack by Saul Maskell
- One Morning in Mumbai by Sujata Massey
- The World of Vincent Calvino, P.I., Bangkok by Christopher G. Moore
- Some Notes From a Long, Strange Journey by Jake Needham
- Up Like Thunder by Colin T. Nelson
- Murder and Mayhem in Imperial Japan by I.J. Parker
- It’s Good to Be Thought Stupid by 22 Million People by David Rotenberg
- Tokyo—Stories, Culture, Murder by Michael Pronko
- China, Korea, Macao, Hong Kong and the Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah Shlian
- Sumatra: Perfect Scene For A Crime by Nancy Raven Smith
- Art Leads to Mystery in Southeast Asia by Nancy Tingley
- Durian Days by Ovidia Yu
- Murder in Retrospect: Reviews by L.J. Roberts, Craig Sisterson, Jonathan Woods, Lesa Holstine, and Tuhin Giri
- The Children’s Hour: Mystery in Asia by Gay Toltl Kinman
- Crime Seen: Sherlock in Japan by Kate Derie
- Real Crime in East Asia by Cathy Pickens
- A Personal Overview of Asian Mysteries by Thom Walls
- From the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph
Sunday, January 22, 2023
CHINESE NEW YEAR MYSTERIES: Year of the Rabbit!
恭賀發財 Gung Hay Fat Choy! This is the Year of the Rabbit. To celebrate the Chinese New Year, I've put together a list of mysteries that take place during the Lunar New Year. As always, I welcome any additions. I'd like to include any other Asian New Year Crime Fiction, so please send author/titles.
CHINESE NEW YEAR MYSTERIES
The Corpses Hanging Over Paris by Cathy Ace
The Chinese Parrot by Erle Derr Biggers
Year of the Dog by Henry Chang
Year of the Dragon by Robert Daley
Serpent's Doom by Connie di Marco
Neon Dragon by John Dobbyn
Dim Sum Dead by Jerrilyn Farmer
The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen
Murder on Bamboo Lane by Naomi Hirahara
Chop Suey by Ty Hutchison
The Chinese New Year Mystery (Nancy Drew) by Carolyn Keene
The Skull Cage Key by Michael Marriott
The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan
City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley
Breezy Friends and Bodies: A Raina Sun Mystery by Anne R. Tan
The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee by Robert Van Gulik (7th Century China) "New Year's Eve in Lan-Fang"
Children and Young Adult:
The Nancy Drew Notebooks: The Chinese New Year Mystery by Carolyn Keene
The New Year Dragon Dilemma by Ron Roy
Short stories:
"The Lady Fish Mystery" by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer, EQMM, September/October 1996.
"Murder Keeps No Calendar" by Cathy Ace.