When Texas turkey farmer Maggie Schneider is shot to death one morning in 1958, Amos Becker is the prime suspect, but he’s disappeared. Well of Deception (Cynthia Massey)is about what happens in a society when men can basically get away with anything. newbooksnetwork.com/cynthia-leal...

An elite combat soldier returns from Gaza with PTSD, sinks into addiction, finds Dog, meets Doris, decides to get clean, uses his last heroin, wakes up covered in blood, is accused of murder, and doesn’t remember a thing. #https://newbooksnetwork.com/yishay-ishi-ron-dog-soncata-press-2025

G. P. Gottlieb recommends Floats the Dark Shadow (The Paris Trilogy, #1) A young American painter has moved to Paris, and things are going awry. Children she knows have gone missing, a close friend is killed in a fire, and she might be in love with her cousin. Inspector Mi...

A gripping, late 19th-century historical mystery:

Agnes is stuck in a magnificent Swiss castle investigating a murder during a huge storm. Then a child disappears. Everyone has something to hide in Swiss Vendetta, the first in a mystery series by @Tracee de Hahn. newbooksnetwork.com/tracee-de-ha...

G. P. Gottlieb recommends A Murder of Furies: The Bronze Age Crete series Martis is a spirited young woman, a bull dancer in the court of the High Priestess of Crete (c1450 BCE), who is drawn into increasingly dangerous royal dramas. When the High Priestess is murdered, Mar...

Love a good YA mystery, especially one set in the Bronze Age!

G. P. Gottlieb recommends The Case of the Christie Conspiracy The Detection Society really did gather in 1926 to drink and talk shop about mystery writing. Still, Kelly Oliver imagines Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, and the others at a meet...

www.bookbub.com/reviews/2929... Adorable new mystery series featuring Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and a whole gang of famous authors.

If you're going to Left Coast Crime, stop in and see a few Blackbird Writers!

Salome at the Chicago Lyric Based on the play by Oscar Wilde

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G.P. Gottlieb In 1976, Janet Kintner was appointed to the bench as the 3rd female judge in San Diego history by Governor Jerry Brown. Two years later, she fought for her seat in a grueling, highly contested...

Janet Kintner was appointed to the bench in 1976, one of only 3 female judges in San Diego. Sixty years later, we still don't have an Equal Rights Amendment, and loud voices are calling for women to get back in the kitchen!

G.P. Gottlieb Just added #31 to my list of All-Time-Favorite-Mystery-Authors! I've adored reading Orenduff's Pot Thief Mysteries; can you check my list and recommend other mystery authors whose writing is crisp...

Just added #31 to my ALL-Time-Favorite-Mystery-Author list!
J Michael Orenduff:

My Dream of Being Like Reese or Zibby by GP Gottlieb - Debra H. Goldstein I’m probably not the only author to dream of having a platform like Reese Witherspoon or Zibby Owens. They’ve helped hundreds of authors with their recommendations. Oprah Winfrey was amazing at helpin...

Honored to have my essay posted today on well-known mystery author Debra Goldstein's blog!

G. P. Gottlieb recommends Ant Farm (Seamus McCree Book 1) Seamus McCree loves birds, jogging, ferreting out financial fraud, and singing in the church choir. When a choir friend asks for help in figuring out who killed her fiancé, Seamus steps up. Soon after...

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G. P. Gottlieb recommends Suitable for Framing (Callie Cassidy Mysteries Book 1) Callie left Denver, where she worked for 20 years as a photojournalist, to return home to the Colorado mountain town where her parents run a small ski resort. She agrees to photograph a town event, bu...

A well-written cozy mystery!

G. P. Gottlieb recommends The Prisoner of Paradise Nick O’Connor is enjoying a dream trip to Venice with Julia, his beautiful wife, when he hears a mysterious voice calling to him from a Tintoretto painting. Julia fears that he is ill, but Nick become...

Art history, time travel, and a mystery!

G.P. Gottlieb I've just added Rhys Bowen as the 27th author on my Favorite-Mystery Authors-of-All-Time page (see below)! The page is by no means complete. Neither Agatha nor Rex (among others) are up yet because...

Who's on your All-Time-Favorite-Mystery-Author list?

On her 15th birthday, Brigit Quinn learns that she descends from an ancient line of clever, magical Celtic women. This is a charming YA novel about learning who you are, where you’ve come from, and what choices will serve you best.

Becoming Sarah Sarah Vogel was born in Auschwitz and liberated at age three, but she has no memories of being there and nobody to tell her the story of her birth or her mother.

Diane Botnick's beautiful and moving debut novel is about identity, memory, survival, and belonging. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/bec...

Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing Chicago Shakespeare at Navy Pier

Theater review (and general criticism of Chicago's Navy Pier)

Aftertaste In Aftertaste (Simon & Schuster, 2025) Konstantin Duhovny’s father died when he was young, and his mother is too anguished to raise him, so he raises himself, but not very well.

Daria Lavelle's zany, well-written novel is about New York’s food scene, the most esoteric and expensive foods, ghosts, finding a soulmate, and losing one’s soul. #Aftertaste #novel #ghosts #podcast

G. P. Gottlieb recommends Who Killed One the Gun? One the Gun is a Humphry Bogart kind of gumshoe who has a thing for his secretary and is racing against time before his time is up in this clever and unusual mystery. I love the fun names (One the Gun...

A unique mystery with time loops and a 1950s feel.

Fun City Heist Mo Melnick has perfect pitch, which didn’t help him in his career as a drummer, but he used to be in a rock band and now his job is sitting on the Jersey Shore renting out chairs and beach umbrellas.

Looking for a cute mystery about an aging drummer who's talked into planning a robbery while rehearsing for an amusement park show?

G. P. Gottlieb recommends Part of the Solution: A mystery A group of young friends is playing at adulthood, sharing a house in a cute Berkshires village while pursuing their dreams. Some work in the café, like Jennifer Morgan, and there are also a poet, a wo...

Just read a lovely mystery set in 1978-

Sarah Cartell was raised in a small town in Canada, in a family of white supremacists. As a college student, she decides to infiltrate a racist group so she can sabotage their despicable plans to hurt others, but her duplicity becomes unbearable.

Carmina Burana at the Lyric Opera Written by Carl Orff, who passed as Aryan and was employed by the Reich Chamber of Culture

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If the Owl Calls As the Sami community (Norway) struggles to protect ancestral lands from the building of a damn in 1979, Oslo detective Hans Sorensen arrives in the north of the country to investigate sabotage on a d...

Latest New Books Network podcast - IF THE OWL CALLS by Sharon White. Set in Norway in the 1970s, an investigator heads to the northern region where the “Sami” people live to investigate the sabotage of a dam. While he’s there, a body is found in a hidden ravine. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/if-...

G.P. Gottlieb on Being Derailed Sometimes changing direction is what you need to do

G.P. Gottlieb on Being Derailed

Guest Blog: The Third Editor by GP Gottlieb

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Guest Chick: GP Gottlieb When I first started writing Battered, the first Whipped and Sipped Mystery, Ruthie Rosin, the character of the protagonist’s best friend and pastry chef, appeared before me almost immediately. She…

Thanks to Chicks on the Case for posting my essay: Basing Characters on Friends and Adversaries:

Happy New Years After finishing her teaching degree in Israel, Leah emigrates to the U.S. for a teaching position that she thinks of as temporary. She ends up staying for 5 decades.

For 50 years, Leah has written an annual New Year's letter to her fellow teachers' college colleagues in Israel. She falls in love, is unfairly maligned, makes bad decisions, is proud or aggravated about her sons, and is betrayed more than once. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/hap...

Reading, Writing, & Roaming with Author Valerie Biel Award-winning indie author, book marketing professional, & writing educator Valerie Biel brings you the latest publishing news, writing craft advice, book marketing & promotion tips. . .and occasional...

Thanks To Valerie Biel for posting my essay: Always Wear a Scarf (about a long-ago train incident involving a hemp plant).