Friday Vintage Covers: Let’s go Sleazy! (Sort of)
It’s Monarch day! (Planning on a Midwood day, soon)
Carnivorous: A Steady Diet of Crime Fiction
I've been writing about crime fiction since the early 1990s. My reviews, interviews, and profiles have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Portland Oregonian, the long-defunct Pages Magazine, Mystery Reader’s Journal, The RapSheet and CrimeReads.
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P D James, Cover Her Face
OOPS
Wrong 's" in title of my post
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