I’VE BEEN TO A MARVELOUS PARTY!!! NOT. |
The Edgar Awards Banquet was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on May 1st. How can an event honoring the best in mystery writing and attended by the wittiest, the most erudite, attractive,&nbs...
Posted by Sally Owen, Bookseller on Sat, 03 May 2008 11:34:00 PST |
An Omission from the Edgar Nominations? |
I've been sulking since the Edgar Nominations were announced! Where's the nom for Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke? It is surely JLB's best book (in my not so humble opinion)...
Posted by Sally Owen, Bookseller on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:43:00 PST |
Read David L. Robbins |
Last year I read ASSASSINS GALLERY by David L. Robbins and was much impressed. It was about an assassination attempt on FDR during the waning months of WWII. I understand there's a sequel ...
Posted by Sally Owen, Bookseller on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:29:00 PST |
Review of PYRES by DEREK NIKITAS |
So here's one of those moments that come along once or twice a year for a reviewer. A book to go crazy over! It starts out like this: Lucia (known as Luce) Moberg persuades her father to d...
Posted by Sally Owen, Bookseller on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:21:00 PST |
BOOKAHOLIC REVIEWS |
Don't forget to check out the latest issue of BOOKAHOLIC on my website:
www.owenbookseller.com
Lots of reviews and descriptions of the latest books. (I'm writing this again because...
Posted by Sally Owen, Bookseller on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:59:00 PST |
REVIEW of 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill |
This terrific collection was originally published in 2005 and is being reissued because, I assume, of the success of HEART-SHAPED BOX, a novel which I found to be rather underwhelming. Short sto...
Posted by Sally Owen, Bookseller on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:19:00 PST |
Review of ABSOLUTION by Caro Ramsay |
Back in 1984, PC Alan McAlpine was given the job of guarding a young woman in a hospital after she had been savagely attacked with acid. Twenty years later, McAlpine, now a Chief Inspector, is t...
Posted by Sally Owen, Bookseller on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:22:00 PST |
We Few, We Happy Few.... |
The Associated Press Ipsos Poll recently reported that one in four adults read no books in the past year. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around that one.
Sara Nelson of Publishers We...
Posted by Sally Owen, Bookseller on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:44:00 PST |
Drop everything and read this book! |
That's what I was told!
Customers of The Mysterious Bookshop have been very vocal about reading James Lee Burke's latest, TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN.
They told me it is his best book. They told me...
Posted by Sally Owen, Bookseller on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:57:00 PST |
Hot Book of the Year? |
You're going to be hearing a lot about Heartsick by Chelsea Cain. A couple of years ago she wrote a Nancy Drew pastiche. Then she got pregnant and decided to write a trilogy featuring a se...
Posted by Sally Owen, Bookseller on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:51:00 PST |
