Story Anthology Named One of Best Books of 2012
Suspense Magazine named SoWest: Desert Justice, the anthology of mystery stories that includes my story “A Season for Death,” one of the Best Books of 2012.
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Judith Starkston
Judith Starkston has spent too much time exploring the remains of the ancient worlds of the Greeks and Hittites. Their myths and clashes inspire her fiction and open gates to magical realms. She has degrees in Classics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Cornell. She loves myths and telling stories, and her novels imbue fantasy with the richness of ancient worlds. The first book in her Trojan Threads Series, Hand of Fire was a semi-finalist for the M.M. Bennett’s Award for Historical Fiction. Priestess of Ishana, the first in her historical fantasy Tesha series, won the San Diego State University Conference Choice Award. Judith is represented by Richard Curtis.
The Next Big Thing: My Novel-in-Progress
The Next Big Thing Blog Chain: Judith Starkston’s novel-in-progress, Hand Full of Fire.
Review of The Sanctity of Hate by Priscilla Royal
Priscilla Royal has brought her fine historical and story-telling skills to a heartbreaking and complex period in medieval England: the treatment of Jews under Edward I. Murders, a love story, and mob violence make for a good mystery.
Review of iFrankenstein by Bekka Black (aka Rebecca Cantrell)
For Halloween: Bekka Black has retold Frankenstein in the 21st century by text, email, tweet, and web browsers, primarily for a teen audience.
Review of The Wrong Hill to Die On by Donis Casey
Set in Tempe, AZ in 1916 this gracious mystery takes on tough themes such as anti-immigration phobias and racism while keeping you turning pages to find the murderer among movie stars, lawyers, Pancho Villa’s men, and a couple caddish ladies’ men.
Review of The Terrorist Next Door by Sheldon Siegel
This is a scary book—not in the Halloween sense but because it portrays our collective “worse nightmare” in post 9/11 America: a bomber right here “next door” as Siegel’s title says. A mysterious person, identified as “the young man” until the end, brings Chicago to its knees with fairly low-tech bombs, high-tech tools and carefully planned villainy.
Interview with Susan Elia MacNeal
Interview with Susan Elia MacNeal author of Princess Elizabeth’s Spy
Review of A Whispering of Spies by Rosemary Rowe
Set in 191-192 AD in Roman Britannia, A Whispering of Spies features Libertus, Rowe’s “sleuth” in this series, accused of theft and murder. Seeking information about a newly arrived ex-lictor with a sinister background, Libertus’s innocent actions on behalf of his patron Marcus Aurelius become fodder for charges.
Informal Bibliography: Nonfiction Books about Troy and the Hittites
An informal bibliography of scholarly but accessible books about Troy and the Hittites.
Review and Giveaway of Princess Elizabeth’s Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal
With the recent celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee, it’s especially engaging to read a novel about her as a young Princess—set in some of England’s darkest days during the brutal bombing attacks by Germany during WWII. While the adventures of Maggie Hope, spy and mathematician, with the fourteen-year-old Princess are fictional, MacNeal’s portrayal of Elizabeth rings delightfully true.