Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Seeing Is Deceiving

By Suzanne North

Classic Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett detectives are urban updates of the Old West cowboy: tough guy loners, ropin’ and ridin’ outside the confounded confines of the family, who find females appealing so long as ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ear-witness

By Mary Ann Scott

“It was 7:35 a.m. and I was desperate.” From the opening sentence of Ear-Witness the territory is clearly defined. We are in the gritty, mean-street world of detective fiction. All the gumshoe conventions are here ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Devil’s Hunt

By P.C. Doherty

Aspiring authors looking for an entrée into publishability and as yet unencumbered with genre might consider writing a historical mystery. Readers, no longer satisfied with the pure entertainment value of a thriller, are craving a ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shinju

By Laura Joh Rowland

Aspiring authors looking for an entrée into publishability and as yet unencumbered with genre might consider writing a historical mystery. Readers, no longer satisfied with the pure entertainment value of a thriller, are craving a ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels