In the mystery course I recently taught, we found the ending of Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced to be both disconcerting and glorious. There are many wonderful aspects to her writing, but we were most engaged by how she gracefully “undoes” the characters we felt we knew because she had built them so convincingly. On the flip side, we were slightly less excited about … Continue reading Endings and Undoings
Happy book birthday to The Art of Vanishing, written by fellow Chick Cynthia Kuhn! This is book two in the Lila Maclean Academic Mysteries, and it’s available today at Amazon and other fine retailers. What else do you need to know? Just the fact that it’s awesome—as is Cynthia! Continue reading “Announcing our newest Chicks release: The Art of Vanishing”
When Ikea opened in our town a number of years ago, I thought it would be fun to check it out. What I didn’t know was that the store is set up so that you are shuttled through every single section until you reach the end. You are swept along in one relentless flow through department after department, with no sense of When It Will … Continue reading The Bookshelves: A Complicated Case
We’re as excited as baby goats in springtime to announce the two latest Chicks to join us here at Chicks on the Case: Cynthia Kuhn and Vickie Fee. And in related news, we’re adding Wednesday posts! Vickie writes the Liv and Di in Dixie Mysteries, and Cynthia writes the Lila MacLean Academic Mysteries. We couldn’t be more thrilled that these two awesome cozy … Continue reading Introducing Vickie and Cynthia: Our Two Newest Chicks!
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