UAlbany Criminal Justice Professor Frankie Bailey's new crime novel, What the Fly Saw (2015), is reviewed in this week's Publishers Weekly:
"The murder of funeral director Kevin Novak, found dead with an arrow in his chest and a skeleton clutched in his arms, propels Bailey’s appealing second near-future mystery featuring Albany, N.Y., detective Hannah McCabe (after 2013’s The Red Queen Dies). Kevin’s family reports that he was coping badly with the sudden death of his best friend, and he was seen acting skittish toward a self-proclaimed psychic, Luanne Woodward, whom he had recently met. In addition, Kevin’s son is showing disturbing signs of irrationality, the minister of Kevin’s church is evasive, and someone serves an arsenic-laden pie with fatal results after a séance. Hannah and her detective partner, Mike Baxter, retrace Kevin’s steps, uncovering evidence that the seemingly steady husband and father was enmeshed in a crisis with significant repercussions for Kevin’s circle. Other deaths, ostensibly from drugs, pose complications for Hannah that promise to carry into the next book, which readers are sure to look forward to. Agent: Josh Getzler, Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency. (Mar.)"
PW link: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-04830-1
Frankie's website: http://www.frankieybailey.com/
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
What the Fly Saw in Publishers Weekly
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award
A call for applications....
The Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award is a one-time grant of $1,500 for an emerging writer of color.
An unpublished writer is preferred, although publication of one work of short fiction or academic work will not disqualify an applicant. This grant is intended to support the recipient in activities related to writing and career development. These activities include workshops, seminars, conferences, and retreats; online courses; and research activities required for completion of the work.
The grant is administered by Sisters in Crime, a 3,600-member organization of mystery authors, readers, publishers, agents, booksellers and librarians. Sisters in Crime was founded by Sara Paretsky and a group of women at the 1986 Bouchercon in Baltimore. In 2014 the group invites members to: “SinC Up With Great Crime Writing! Our mission is to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers.”
More: http://www.sistersincrime.org/associations/10614/files/14EleanorTaylorBland-GrantAnnouncement.pdf
Picture: Mystery writer Eleanor Taylor Bland (1944-2010).
Friday, January 31, 2014
Crime is the High Road to Philosophy
Crime is the high road to philosophy for Walter Mosley. In fact, what draws him to write mysteries is the chance to attack moral questions, and the novel that has most affected his writing and his outlook is not a crime story but ''The Stranger'' by the French existentialist Albert Camus.
''Mysteries, stories about crime, about detectives, are the ones that really ask the existentialist questions,'' he says, ''such as 'How do I act in an imperfect world when I want to be perfect?' I'm not really into clues and that sort of thing, although I do put them in my stories. I like the moral questions.'' Mr. Mosley's sometimes mischievous humor is habitually expressed in understatement. The ''imperfect world'' in which ''Devil in a Blue Dress'' is set is the Watts section of Los Angeles in the late 1940's. It is an area where policemen and rotten politicians are presiding menaces but no more dangerous to ordinary citizens like Easy Rawlins than some of his neighbors and friends.
More: http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/15/specials/mosley-moral.html
More about Mosley's visit with Frankie Bailey: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/mosley_bailey14.html Read More......
A Serial Killer in Albany
More about the events: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/mosley_bailey14.html
Here's the Booklist review: "In 2019, a serial killer is on the loose in Albany, New York. Two women in their twenties have been murdered by having phenol injected into their hearts, and when Broadway actress Vivian Jessup, known as the Red Queen for her role in Alice in Wonderland, is killed in the same manner, Albany PD detective Hannah McCabe and partner Mike Baxter struggle to connect the dots in what has become an even higher-profile case. In the near future, everyone has an ORB (smartphone successor?), a drug named Lullaby can erase memories of crime victims (but causes a problem when used by a witness), and a threader (blogger successor?) with inside knowledge plagues the police. What has not changed is that crime solving requires hard work and good instincts. McCabe shows she has what it takes to succeed at her work and to win readers. University of Albany criminal justice professor Bailey, author of the Lizzie Stuart mysteries, leaves some intriguing questions unanswered in this strong start to a projected series." Read More......
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Major Crime Fiction Convention in Albany, Sept. 19-22
This year's Bouchercon (the Anthony Boucher Memorial World Mystery Convention), the world's largest crime fiction convention, will be held at Empire State Plaza in Albany, September 19-22.
Celebrity mystery writers in attendance will include Sue Grafton, Anne Perry, Tess Gerritsen, Steve Hamilton, and others.
Crime fiction fans and writers from all over the world will gather in downtown Albany to celebrate their genre.
The Bouchercon website: http://bcon2013.com/
There is a fee to register.
New Sci-Fi Mystery Set in Albany in 2019
The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza will host a book launch party for a new futuristic mystery by Frankie Bailey, Professor in the School of Criminal Justice and frequent Writers Institute programming co-conspirator, Saturday, September 14, 2013, 3 – 5:30 PM (you're invited!).Here's the Booklist review by Michele Leber, "In 2019, a serial killer is on the loose in Albany, New York. Two women in their twenties have been murdered by having phenol injected into their hearts, and when Broadway actress Vivian Jessup, known as the Red Queen for her role in Alice in Wonderland, is killed in the same manner, Albany PD detective Hannah McCabe and partner Mike Baxter struggle to connect the dots in what has become an even higher-profile case. In the near future, everyone has an ORB (smartphone successor?), a drug named Lullaby can erase memories of crime victims (but causes a problem when used by a witness), and a threader (blogger successor?) with inside knowledge plagues the police. What has not changed is that crime solving requires hard work and good instincts. McCabe shows she has what it takes to succeed at her work and to win readers. University of Albany criminal justice professor Bailey, author of the Lizzie Stuart mysteries, leaves some intriguing questions unanswered in this strong start to a projected series."
There’ll be food, drink, a door prize, and volunteers who have agreed to read scenes from the book.
Book House event link: http://bookhouse.indiebound.com/event/bh-frankie-failey-signs-her-newest-book-red-queen-dies
Frankie Bailey's website: http://www.frankieybailey.com/
Professor Bailey cooked up our Food, Crime, and Justice Film Series which features "The Garden" on October 11th, and Exterminating Angel on November 1, followed by a Q&A with William Kennedy and Donald Faulkner. More: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/cfs.html Read More......
Thursday, July 12, 2012
The Dark Lady of American Letters, This Friday
All events in the series are free and open to the general public
Her most recent book is The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares: Novellas and Stories of Unspeakable Dread (2011).
Publishers Weekly said, "The seven stories in this stellar collection from the prolific Oates (Give Me Your Heart) may prompt the reader to turn on all the lights or jump at imagined noises.... This volume burnishes Oates’s reputation as a master of psychological dread."
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