LADIES OF THE 60s, Volume 1 and ORIGINALS: STILL THE GREATEST, VOLUME 11 1960-1962 I was listening to 1960s music last week and these two compilation CDs stood out. Ladies of the 60s starts off with Marcie Blane’s “Bobby’s Girl,” a song I haven’t heard in 50 years. While Ladies of the 60s includes familiar songs like Petula Clark’s “Downtown” and Betty Everett’s “The Scoop Scoop Song (It’s In […]
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How Four Investigative Reporting Experiences Led to Great Mystery “Material” During my career as an investigative reporter – and as the wife of an expert in the field of computer-assisted investigative reporting – I have experienced situations that could be distressing if you didn’t realize this is all great material for writing mysteries! The first occurred early in my career when I was assigned to […]
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My First Thriller: I.S. Berry For three months after its launch in May 2023, I.S. Berry’s spy novel was flying under the radar, as most debut novels do. Then a rave review from The New Yorker set off a firestorm of other favorable notices that resulted in numerous publications and National Public Radio naming it one of the best novels […]
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Drumroll...  Barbara here, finally. I have been AWOL from this blog for a month due to unexpected medical challenges but I am back!Albeit late and with a short post. In my last post I revealed the official title of my next Inspector Green novel (number 12: SHIPWRECKED SOULS. The book is due out in January 2025 and is currently grinding its way through the promotional and editorial phases. At the moment
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Nicholas Meyer on the Great Escape of Art (and the Art of Detective Fiction) Leo Tolstoy, author of my favorite novel, War and Peace, said that the purpose of art is to teach us to love life, an observation that has pleased me since I first read it. But on reflection, I think it fair to say there are other things that art can do in relation to life; […]
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