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Literary calendar for week of April 13

Pioneer Press 13 Apr 2025
Marcie Rendon, enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, playwright, author of stand-alone novels and the Cash Blackbear crime series, gives the keynote address at this 15th annual festival, in ...
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Ted Kotcheff, ‘First Blood,’ ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ director, dies at 94

The Spokesman-Review 13 Apr 2025
He eventually reached Hollywood to work with stars such as George Segal and Jane Fonda in the crime farce “Fun with Dick and Jane” (1977) and Nick Nolte in the football satire “North Dallas Forty” (1979).
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Readers and writers: Three new books for spring from Minnesota authors

Pioneer Press 13 Apr 2025
Forensic psychologist Weber gives us a sort-of sequel to last year’s “Scandal of Vandals” in his new crime novel populated by am unsavory cast of characters except for Jon Frederick, ...
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Why home and garden fans will be interested in the Pasadena Showcase House

San Gabriel Valley Tribune 12 Apr 2025
Most of us have a secret (or not-so-secret) hankering to look at the estates of the rich and famous. Well, here’s a chance to check out one of the swankiest during the Pasadena Showcase House of Design ... He also wrote 16 crime novels ... When ... Where ... .
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Ted Kotcheff, ‘First Blood’ and ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ director, dies at 94

Toronto Sun 12 Apr 2025
He eventually reached Hollywood to work with stars such as George Segal and Jane Fonda in the crime farce “Fun with Dick and Jane” (1977) and Nick Nolte in the football satire “North Dallas Forty” (1979).
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The Story of Bhagat Singh’s Prison Diary

Kashmir Observer 12 Apr 2025
The Story of Bhagat Singh’s Prison Diary. By Kalpana Pandey ... He took extensive notes on history, philosophy, and economics ... B.R ... G.B ... He read Ibsen’s plays, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s renowned novel Crime and Punishment, and Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables.
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The crime novel 2025: Expanding and contracting at the same time

People's World 11 Apr 2025
This popularity was much in evidence recently at what is perhaps the world’s largest crime novel festival, the Quais du Polar in Lyon, which this year boasted 125 authors from 17 countries ... Crime novel ...
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Peter Lovesey, novelist who pioneered the period whodunnit with Victorian copper Cribb – obituary

The Daily Telegraph 11 Apr 2025
Lovesey wrote several more historical crime novels, including three featuring “Bertie” – the future Edward VII – as a somewhat erratic amateur detective ... CWA’s Gold Dagger for crime novel of the year.
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Chilling Thrillers out now: The Death of Us by Abigail Dean, The Final Wife by ...

The Daily Mail 11 Apr 2025
This third novel by an Edinburgh-based solicitor reads like true crime, but it is, in fact, very dark fiction ... Part investigation and part confession – Cole’s own novel about the killings is part of ...
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The art of words and pictures

Manila Bulletin 11 Apr 2025
The three novels today showcase the power of words and images ... It’s hard to believe that this is only the second novel from Natasha Brown ... At the center of the novel is the artist of the day, Thomas Halle.
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BOOK NOOK: This early bookmobile ran on railroad tracks in Montana

Springfield News-Sun 11 Apr 2025
In her novel “The Lost Book of ... Okay, so I have mentioned the murder and that gives us our crime novel element but there are also things here that qualify this story as a romance as well as a mystery.
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The best science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

The Observer 11 Apr 2025
A sharp, clever blend of science fictional gothic and crime, on a smaller scale than Martine’s previous two novels, but not to be missed ... A stunningly evocative, beautifully written gothic novel ...
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Weezer Bassist’s Wife Shot by Police, Arrested for Attempted Murder

New York Magazine 11 Apr 2025
Scott Shriner and Jillian Lauren. Photo. Getty Images ... Lauren posted bond and is “all right,” her husband said ... 9.44 a.m. ... She also wrote the 2011 novel Pretty, the 2015 memoir Everything You Ever Wanted, and the 2023 true-crime book Behold the Monster.
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Bits and Pieces 04.10.25

The East Hampton Star 10 Apr 2025
Premiering on Amazon Prime Video next month is “The Better Sister,” a limited-series thriller starring Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks and adapted from the 2019 novel of the same name by Alafair Burke, the best-selling author of 15 crime novels.
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