Author Jeri Westerson has done it again: She's managed to craft another fascinating, entertaining, engaging book in a style that's been dubbed "medieval noir." Her latest book, Blood Lance, is the ...

One of her cats -- Acker, not Dobbler, because Dobbler "loves everyone because that's our idiot kitty" -- has chosen to attack me. "Don't worry," the Bookslut says. "She does that to everyone, ...

Edmund Crispin’s 'The Moving Toyshop' was once a celebrated mystery, yet it has slipped from the spotlight despite its ...

In the beginning of the bookish Internet, Jessa Crispin made waves with her irreverent online literary magazine, “Bookslut.” She’s gone on to publish another magazine, “Spolia,” as well as the 2015 ...

Set in 14th-century England, Avi's (The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle) 50th book begins with a funeral, that of a village outcast whose past is shrouded in mystery and whose adolescent son is ...

Jessa Crispin’s new book, “The Dead Ladies Project,” opens in the wake of a suicide threat. Two police officers stand in the author’s kitchen preparing to take her to the emergency room, and her ...