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In GAD We Trust – Episode 10: Genre and Detective Fiction [w’ Ryan O’Neill]

August 1, 2020July 31, 2020 / JJ / 29 Comments

In GAD We Trust

A final (for now) podcast episode before I head off on hiatus, this time discussing the idea of genre with author Ryan O’Neill.

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#643: Minor Felonies – Waste of Space (2018) by Stuart Gibbs

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020 / JJ / Leave a comment

Waste of Space

I’ve mentioned before how I grew up reading a lot of SF — Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula Le Guin, Larry Niven, E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith — and how certain authors like Philip K. Dick, Sheri S. Tepper, and Connie Willis still delight me in my dotage.

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#637: Adventures in Self-Publishing – A Eulogy for Reason (2019) by DWaM

February 25, 2020February 23, 2020 / JJ / 7 Comments

Eulogy for Reason, A

With a lot of Agatha Christie fans — Puzzle Doctor included — throwing their hands up at yet another televisation taking excessive liberties with the source material, I’d like to make you all feel better with the following words: I am a Philip K. Dick fan.

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#580: Minor Felonies – Spaced Out (2016) by Stuart Gibbs

October 15, 2019March 10, 2020 / JJ / 1 Comment

Spaced Out

Space Case (2014), the opening volume in Stuart Gibbs’ Moon Base Alpha trilogy, did a very good job of marrying some intelligent scientific speculation with an appealing juvenile detective and a decent whodunnit plot, and follow-up Spaced Out (2016) is even better again.

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#488: A Murder is Announced – Case for Eight Detectives in The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (2018) by Stuart Turton

January 19, 2019January 18, 2019 / JJ / 25 Comments

seven death of evelyn hardcastle

For once, I, on my blog typically concerned with titles from some 60 to 80 years ago, am allowing external factors to influence me here. Not just in looking at a book published during my own lifetime (that happens not infrequently) but one that’s been in the news of late, too.

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#483: Adventures in Self-Publishing – The Locked Room Murder (2016) by Nancy McGovern

January 8, 2019January 7, 2019 / JJ / 14 Comments

Locked Room Murder, The

If last week’s self-published impossible murder didn’t work for you then, well, firstly have a quiet word with yourself, but also perhaps this week will make you more comfortable.  Perhaps even…cozy.

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#474: Minor Felonies – The Last Chance Hotel (2018) by Nicki Thornton

December 18, 2018December 16, 2018 / JJ / 4 Comments

Last Chance Hotel, The

Welcome to the Last Chance Hotel, standing alone in seemingly endless woodland, where a coterie of oddballs are about to descend and usher in an impossible murder over dinner.

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#464: The Wrong Stuff – Patience and the Detective Story via Station (2008) by Johanna Stokes and Leno Carvalho

November 24, 2018November 23, 2018 / JJ / 10 Comments

Station.jpg
I was lured into Station by its format as much as its premise: a graphic novel telling a tale of murder on the International Space Station.

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#455: With Reiterated Crimes He Might Heap on Himself Damnation – Failure (Holy) Writ Large in The Sinister Student (2016) by Kel Richards

November 3, 2018November 2, 2018 / JJ / 22 Comments

The Sinister Student

Had I gotten round to this sooner, it may have qualified as a Modern Locked Room Mystery for TomCat attempt, but TomCat has already read this one and so really all that remained was to see if I was equally underwhelmed by it.

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#443: A Little Help for My Friends – Finding a Modern Locked Room Mystery for TomCat Attempt #9: By the Pricking of Her Thumb (2018) by Adam Roberts

October 6, 2018October 6, 2018 / JJ / 2 Comments

By the Pricking of Her Thumb

The last two Saturdays on here have seen me dive into modern hardback novels, so I thought I would continue that trend and pretend once more that I’m doing this purely for TomCat’s benefit.

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