Lest I Forget to Mention ...

In Mystery Fanfare’s latest “Partners in Crime” post, Jeffery Deaver writes about collaborating on the two serial thrillers featured in the new Vanguard Press released, Watchlist. ... 007 Magazine is back, now as two separate publications. ... In his Permission to Kill blog, David Foster has begun “a series of posts that will look at actors, actresses, directors, and composers who have worked on a [James] Bond film. These reviews will look at their work Beyond the Bond series. For some people, landing a role in a Bond film is a great stepping stone to bigger and better things. For others, it can be a curse of which they are unable to break free.” You can keep up with Foster’s series here. ... California novelist J. Sydney Jones, author of the delightful new historical mystery, Requiem in Vienna, has inaugurated his own blog, Scene of the Crime. He promises it will be “devoted to interviews with authors of mysteries and thrillers who have a particular connection with a city or locale. Think Simenon and Paris, Conan Doyle and London. Now think extant writers: Cara Black and Paris, Philip Kerr and pre-war Berlin, Robert B. Parker and Boston, Matt Beynon Rees and Jerusalem, Donna Leon and Venice, Jason Goodwin and early nineteenth-century Istanbul, and yes, yours truly for Vienna 1900.” (Hat tip to Lesa’s Book Critiques.) ... And the latest episode of the postcast series, I Hear Sherlock Everywhere, continues the enlightening discussion about Sherlock Holmes movie portrayals over the last century. Listen here.