Nora Roberts’ ‘From the Heart’ is in Penguin’s ‘Read for the Heart’ campaign

Penguin Group (USA) has included Nora Roberts’ From the Heart as one of six titles it is promoting in connection with a new "Read for the Heart" campaign. The publisher will use February 2012, American Heart Month…

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Julianne, Kristen and Kari Larsen are three sisters who, when combined, become mystery writer K.J. Larsen, author of the Cat DeLuca mystery series. Poisoned Pen Press will release Sticks and Stones, Larsen’s second book in that series…

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Dorothy Gilman, author of the Mrs. Pollifax mystery series, passed away at her Rye Brook, N.Y. home on Feb. 2, 2012. The 88-year-old author’s death was caused by complications due to Alzheimer’s disease…

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"Unusual." That’s the one-word answer Sergeant Ben Kella provides to the question, "What kind of copper are you?" in Graeme Kent’s second Sergeant Kella and Sister Conchita mystery, One Blood (Soho…

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For those Nora Roberts fans uninterested in the outcome of Super Bowl 2012, Lifetime Television has provided a day of rebroadcasts of five made-for-television movies based on Nora Roberts' romantic suspense novels. These movies will air…

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Using as its theme, "Mining for Murder," the 22nd Left Coast Crime Conference will take place from March 29-April 1, 2012 at the Sacramento, Calif. Sheraton Grand Hotel. Mystery readers and mystery writers alike attend this annual…

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Superintendent Duncan Kincaid investigates the murder of a colleague in Deborah Crombie’s No Mark Upon Her (Morrow: Feb.7, 2012 release). This latest addition to Crombie’s Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James mystery series finds Kincaid…

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Noted romance fiction blogger Sarah Wendell will share the spotlight with Nora Roberts and Roberts' guests Mary Burton, Mary Kay McComas, Donna Kauffman, Mary Alice Baumgardner and Michael Douglas Jones at the Turn the Page (TTP) Bookstore&amp…

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Peter Helton introduced Detective Inspector Liam McLusky, who had just taken on a new post with the Bristol CID, in his 2010 novel, Falling More Slowly. Now the Inspector returns in Four Below (Soho Constable, Jan. 24, 2012 release) to…

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In a press release issued yesterday, Jan. 19, 2012, the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) announced its nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The following list of these Edgar® Award nominees indicates the MWA&rsquo…

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