Mystery Writers of America announces Edgar winners: Best Novel, The Chatham School Affair, Thomas A. Cook (Bantam); Best First Novel by an American Author, Simple Justice, John Morgan Wilson (Doubleday); Best Paperback Original, Fade Away, Harlan Coben (Dell); Best Critical/Biographical, The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes, Michael Atkinson (University of Michigan Press); Best Fact Crime, Power to Hurt, Darcy O'Brian (HarperCollins); Best Short Story, "Red Clay" by Michael Malone (Murdered for Love, Delacorte); Best Young Adult, Twisted Summer, Willo Davis Roberts (Atheneum); Best Juvenile, The Last Piper, Helen Cavanaugh (Simon&Schuster); Best Episode in a Television Series, "Deadbeat" written by Ed Zuckerman and I.C. Rappaport (Law and Order, NBC); Best Television Feature or Miniseries, "Brotherly Love" written by Jimmy McGovern (Cracker, A&E); Best Motion Picture, Sling Blade, Billy Bob Thorton (Miramax). The North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers announces the winner of the organization's sixth annual Hammett Prize for a work of literary excellence in the field of crime writing: Rose by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House). (Go to Library for back issues) |
Ori Takes Aim 27 April 1997---A Book Review is a Book Review, or Is It? I read very few reviews these days because they give away so much of the story I find myself no longer interested. Why should I buy the book? There are catalogs that do this, too, but I'll save that discussion for another time. Too many of them stop just short of giving away the ending. And because I've read a lot of books, I can pretty much figure it out from there. This is not fair play and it is not a review....(con't) Ori Hardy-Sayles edits The Magnifying Glass |
Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem, Oh My! 25 April 1997, by Cherie Jung Is the mystery genre dying? Some say, yes. Rumors regarding well known (and not so well known) authors being dropped by their publishers ....(con't) Cherie Jung edits Over My Dead Body! |
Armed and Dangerous Spring 1997-Deadly Pleasures Editorial by George Easter Don Sandstrom. Don, whose words you have been reading for the last three years in Deadly Pleasures (DP), has been battling leukemia for the last several months. After a long stay in the hospital, his doctors allowed him to go home for a few weeks. His leukemia is considered in remission, but he has had to go back to the hospital...(con't) George Easter edits Deadly Pleasures |
What Ori's Reading 23 April 1997 This week in Mrs. Castro's Fifth Grade Class at Cumberland Grammar School in Sunnyvale, CA, Ori is reading Gallow's Hill by Lois Duncan. (con't) |
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