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Tag Archives: Mysterious Bookshop
Launch Party for “Down To the River,” New Crime Fiction Anthology
That’s crime novelist Tim O’Mara with my amazing wife Patricia Smith at New York City’s Mysterious Bookshop last night. We were there to help launch the publication of Down to the River, a great short story anthology of crime fiction … Continue reading
Why I Never Outline My Novels, Preferring to Discover The Story As I Go Along
Some novelists outline their plots before they start to write. Others don’t. There’s no right way to do it. Each writer does what’s best for him or her. I never outline my hard-boiled crime novels. In this guest blog I … Continue reading
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Tagged A Scourge of Vipers, Bruce DeSilva, crime novels, Elmore Leonard, hard-boiled, investigative reporter, james Ellroy, Liam Mulligan, Mysterious Bookshop, noir, Patricia Smith, Providence Rag, Rhode Island, Robert B. Parker, Rogue Island, sports betting, Timopthy hallinan
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April Book Tour Schedule for “A Scourge of Vipers,” the New Mulligan Crime Novel
I’ll be on tour for most of the month of April, signing copies of my new hardboiled Mulligan crime novel, A Scourge of Vipers, and talking to readers. Please come by to see me if I’m I a city near … Continue reading
Notes On A Book Tour From A Tired But Grateful Novelist
Home at last. After twenty-eight days on the road, with fifteen events stretching from New York City in the East to San Francisco in the West, I’m both exhausted from all the travel and grateful for the scores of folks … Continue reading
“Providence Rag” Book Tour Schedule
The cross-country book tour to promote Providence Rag, the third novel in my Edgar Award-winning Mulligan crime series, started on March 11 with a book release party at Manhattan’s famous Mysterious Bookshop. From there, I’ll be crisscrossing the country from San … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Carnival, Book People, book tour, Booklist, Borderland Books, Bruce DeSilva, edgar award, left coast crime, Mulligan crime, Murder By the Book, Mysterious Bookshop, Mystery Writers of America, Once Upon a Crime, Poisoned Pen, Providence Rag, Publshers Weekly, Seattle Mystery Bookshop, starred review
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Crime Novelist Chris Knopf Interviews Me about “Cliff Walk.”
Fellow crime novelist Chris Knopf interviewed me for his website. He asks, among other things, why so many journalists are turning to crime fiction and what makes Rhode Island, the setting for my Mulligan novels, such an odd place. You … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce DeSilva, Chris Knopf, Cliff Walk, crime fiction, Mulligan, mysteries, Mysterious Bookshop, Providence, Rhode Island
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“Cliff Walk” at The Mysterious Bookshop
My new Mulligan mystery novel, Cliff Walk, on sale at the famous Mysterious Bookshop in Manhattan. It’s the sequel to my Edgar Award-winning first novel, Rogue Island. If you don’t shop there, you can find them here.
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Tagged Bruce DeSilva, Cliff Walk, edgar award, hardboiled, Mulligan, mysteries, Mysterious Bookshop, noir, Providence, Rhode Island, Rogue Island, thrillers
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Thank You, Mysterious Bookshop, for a Great Book Launch Party
Publication day is always an exciting time for an author, and last night’s book-release party for my new Mulligan crime novel, Cliff Walk, at The Mysterious Bookshop on Warren Street in Manhattan couldn’t have been sweeter. A full house showed … Continue reading
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Ace Atkins Brings Back Robert B. Parker’s Iconic P.I., Spenser
A few months after Robert B. Parker died of a heart attack at his writing desk in January of 2010, his publisher, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, approached Ace Atkins with a proposition. Parker’s family wanted Spenser, one of the most … Continue reading
