The summer edition of Canada-based Spinetingler Magazine includes: new short fiction by Megan Powell, Stephen Blackmoore, Joe Swope, and January Magazine contributor Sarah Weinman; advice for the budding modern crime novelist from Margaret Murphy (Now You See Me); the second and final part of an interview with Cornelia Reed, author of A Field of Darkness (with the first part being found here); and reviews of new books by John Morgan Wilson, Carla Banks, Michael Connelly, and others.
While we’re on the subject of fresh-off-the-shelf crime mags, managing editor Elizabeth Foxwell was kind enough to send along the Spring 2006 issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection, which is all over the subject Hispanic detective fiction. I hadn’t realized before this just how egregiously unversed I was in this subgenre. Although Clues is rather academic in tone, the latest edition carries intriguing essays about Rolando Hinojosa’s police procedural novels set on the U.S.-Mexico border, contemporary Central American crime fiction as social criticism, the connection between Spain’s politics and its detective novels, and the detective story as cultural unifier in mid-20th-century Argentina.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
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