Maine Crime Writers

I don’t doubt you’ve had enough of my knee adventure this winter but it was, as you can imagine, a major change to the body and one that echoes out into the future as the healing continues. It was not, I admit, so much as the surgery and the immediate aftermath that interested me—the painkillers took care of that—but what went on in the slow regaining of function and movement...

Next week at Maine Crime Writers there will be posts by Dick Cass (Monday), Vaughn Hardacker (Tuesday), Matt Cost (Thursday), and Rob Kelley (Friday).

In the news department, here’s what’s happening with some of us who blog regularly at Maine Crime Writers:

Today, Saturday, May 23, Matt Cost will be participating in MYSTERY MAKING MAYHEM...

The Accidental Crime Writer
By Elizabeth DeWolfe

I hadn’t intended to write about crime. A graduate school class on Women and the Law was as close as I got to nineteenth-century disorder. And while the subject of my first book, an anti-Shaker activist, had her day in court, nobody committed a crime, or at least, no violent ones. Women’s history, cozy-style.

Spring in Maine! One day it’s in the 80s, the next frost kills the forsythia. After the bugless joy of winter, it’s ants in the mailbox and ticks on your pants and the brown-tailed moth microscopic poison in the air.  After the dead quiet of winter, it’s early-bird summer people walking down my lane talking on their phones on speaker and lawn-care companies revving up ha...

Moe Claire is the author of the Pyke Island Mysteries in Downeast Maine published by 12 Willows Press with three titles (A Fickle Tide, Granite and Bones, Black Veil, White Rose) and a fourth (A Blind...