Reading Laura Lippman is as addictively satisfying as crunching on potato chips from a freshly opened bag but without the salt or calories. She celebrated her 25th anniversary as a fiction writer in 2022 and each new publication should be heralded with fanfare. Her work is contemporary noir, bittersweet as…
There's nothing quite like a thriller that embodies everything we love about the noir genre: the mind games, cat-and-mouse-like chases, forbidden desires, dark pasts and even darker secrets. Literary noir is in a whole realm of its own. The latest and most anticipated addition to the genre is Laura Lippman's Sunburn. …
Rachel Fogle De SouzaFebruary 26, 2018
BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content. In order to be a good author, you’ve got to be a good reader, right? That’s what we’ve always thought anyway. To keep our shelves stocked with must-read recommendations, we scoured social media to discover the books that our favorite writers recommend. Looking for…
BookishFebruary 28, 2018
Happy Silver Anniversary to Laura Lippman who made her debut as a fiction writer in 1997 during her 15-year tenure as a Baltimore Sun reporter. Her celebratory gift to avid fans and new readers alike is Seasonal Work (William Morrow), an electrifying collection of short stories, which includes a compelling…
Linda HitchcockJanuary 4, 2022
Book clubs have a bad reputation among people who like to read, mocked for being a nice excuse to sit with your friends and drink wine, but certainly not an opportunity to talk about books with fellow bibliophiles. At least, this is what I thought before I joined one. I…
Melissa DuclosFebruary 3, 2014
In the beginning, there were stories. Always stories. And with stories come writers. So begins Louise Fitzhugh’s 1964 classic, Harriet the Spy: Harriet was trying to explain to Sport how to play Town. “See, first you make up the name of the town. Then you write down the names…
Jordan FosterFebruary 25, 2014
It’s a star-studded lineup of authors as Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman, Rachel Howzell Hall and Val McDermid headline this year’s nominees for the Strand Critics Awards from The Strand Magazine. Meanwhile, Sandra Brown and Nelson DeMille will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards, and Morgan Entrekin of Grove/Atlantic Inc. will receive the…
BookTribJune 29, 2022
You can instantly recognize a good beach book. It’s the one with the grits of sand in the binding, and translucent splotches made by Coppertone fingers turning the pages. The ones you find on the shelves of that musty-smelling summer cottage by the ocean you rented, tattered and swollen by…
Hank Phillippi RyanJuly 30, 2020
Having a journalist as the main character is good news and bad news. The good news is that it solves one of the trickiest problems in crime fiction writing: if your character is not in law enforcement of some kind (or at least a private detective) and they come across…
Hank Phillippi RyanJuly 29, 2021
Looking for a good book to curl up with this winter? We’ve got you covered! In this week’s episode of Just the Right Book Podcast Roxanne is joined by Ellen Gamerman, the Arts and Culture reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Ellen takes us inside the Journal and shares some winter reads and even talks Oscars. Also,…
Just The Right Book PodcastFebruary 2, 2018