Give It a Shot

Among the topics subject to raconteur Mike Ripley’s trenchant observations in his latest “Getting Away with Murder” column are: London’s recent Nordicana conference on Scandinavian crime fiction; Dublin-based author Declan Hughes’ new, non-Ed Loy novel, All the Things You Are; the 25th anniversary of Ripley’s second novel capturing the very first Last Laugh Award from the Crime Writers’ Association; the British Library’s move into publishing vintage mystery fiction; and new paperback editions of Ellery Queen novels from UK publisher Orion. Read about all that and more in Shots.