All the Updates

Sixth Status Report on the Project 'KEEP THE READING QUEUE UNDER CONTROL', with this month the subtitle of, The Wheels are Being Realigned.

As always - the last fortnight entries and The Next Up Reading List in full.

Successes

• Finally finished my review of The Freezer, Kim Hunt which delay was everything to do with my workload and nothing whatsoever to do with what a great series this is!
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Soho Crime's weekend newsletter shared the sad news that yet another great crime writer has died - this time the English writer Peter Lovesey

Their tribute does it best:  https://mailchi.mp/sohopress/remembering-peter-lovesey

But the line:

In addition to the scope of his unparalleled crime fiction career, Peter Lovesey will be remembered by his many grieving friends as the paragon of decency, compassion, loyalty, self-discipline, and pride in good work—in short,

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Book lovers around the world are coming together from April 21-27 for the Global Book Crawl, and of course Australia’s local bookshops are in on the action! The Global Book Crawl is a worldwide celebration of local bookshops and those who love them. There’ll be seven different Aussie Book Crawls taking place, alongside crawls in Firenze, Nairobi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaga, Basel, Brooklyn NYC and many more (click  ... Read Update

Yesterday Andrew Nette, on BlueSky, posted a link out about the death of the Irish Author Ken Bruen. Only 74 years old, had led a life no two ways about that, and wrote some of the most wonderful, dry, noir styled works I've had the pleasure to read. As Andrew put it in his post "I loved his inspector Brant series, a terrifically lean & nasty series of novels in which it was often difficult to tell the difference between the cops and the criminals." For a start, 74 is too young to die, and for a ... Read Update

Third Status Report on the Project 'KEEP THE READING QUEUE UNDER CONTROL'. 

Successes

• Read Better Left Dead, Catherine Lea (review to come)
• Read Nothing But Murders and Bloodshed and Hanging, Mary Fortune (review to come)
• Read The Freezer, Kim Hunt (review to come)
• Started Humidity, Dan Kaufman
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Think of this, if you will, as a Status Report on the Project 'KEEP THE READING QUEUE UNDER CONTROL' which is officially now a thing around here. You never know, reporting on it like a project might keep the targets clear, and the deliverables.. err ... delivered.

The reader of these updates might remember I went into Christmas 2024 intending to read as many as possible from a pile of books that I listed in my December 2024 newsletter. Surprisingly given the ... Read Update

Things are progressing in the catch up of books / reviews etc onto this new site. It's taking a while, I'd forgotten just how many reviews / books had been added in the last 18 years.

The plan was to pull in books as new ones from the same author came out. That has "sort of" worked, but I've also been working my way backwards through the most recent reviews posted, and sideways as somebody triggers a memory, or something pops up in a list somewhere.

Basically there is no plan, I'm getting there. Read Update

Along with the RSS Feeds, there is now a newsletter option on AustCrimeFiction - the link to subscribe is down the bottom of the site, there won't be a lot of newsletters, basically I'll send one when there's been a reasonable number of new posts gone live.

Also, in order to provide a regular update on activities, there's now a single page:

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/last-fortnight-on-austcrime

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