Tag: restless in the grave

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So a while ago at the Poisoned Pen I pinch hit as host for Barbara Peters, who was slugging back Singapore Slings in the bar at the Raffles Hotel in, you guessed it, Singapore at the time. We’re still not speaking to her. The guest du soir was Paula Lafferty, of the bestseller The Once…

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Being a sometime dive down the rabbit hole of the craft and business of writing. I wrote a piece about research rabbit holes a minute ago (in Internet time, anyway) when researching Abduction of a Slave (Isis4, publishing in January 2025), and it crystalized a realization that has been coming on slowly over, oh, say…

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“So, you’re not even sure a murder has taken place,” Kate said.

From Restless in the Grave, the nineteenth Kate Shugak novel: “So, you’re not even sure a murder has taken place,” Kate said. “No.” “And without more evidence, you can’t justify investigating it yourself.” “Plus press of other business,” Campbell said.  “Mocassin Man’s started a meth lab somewhere, and I’m riding herd on the usual assortment…

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