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  • Amateur detective hopes to make a difference

    Amateur detective hopes to make a difference

    No one believed Frankie Elkin when she said Lana Whitehorse was at the bottom of the lake, and for a moment, as Frankie swam through the cloudy waters, oxygen almost gone and unable see the truck Lana had been driving on the night she disappeared, she wondered if maybe they’d been right. But no, there…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    February 17, 2021
    mystery
    crime, Lisa Gardner, missing, Mystery-Thriller, Yellowbird-Chase
  • ‘True crime’ inspires fiction thriller

    “I’m destined to disappear,” Rachael Bard tells the listeners of her true crime podcasts. For Sera Fleece, whose life is tumbling down around her as she dwells upon each of her many perceived failures and seldom leaves her home, her time is totally focused on every episode — each one dedicated to a missing or…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    February 12, 2021
    Adventure, Berkley Publishing, mystery, Thriller
    #IfIDisappear #ElizaJaneBrazier, Eliza Jane Brazier, mystery, Podcasts, Social media, Thriller, True Crime
  • THE 17TH ANNUAL BEST BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCE 2020 AWARD RECIPIENTS

    Mainstream & Independent Titles Score Top Honors in the 17th Annual Best Book Awards  HarperCollins, Penguin/Random House, John Wiley and Sons, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, Forge, Sterling Publishing, Hay House, Sounds True, Llewellyn Worldwide, NYU Press, Oxford University Press, John Hopkins University Press, The White House Historical Association and hundreds of Independent Houses contribute to this…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    January 18, 2021
    American History, Architecture, Artists, Biography, Children’s books, Comedian, Cookbooks, Culture, Dogs, Fantasy, Female Voices, Fiction, Food, Gardening, History, Humor, Indiana University, Literary, Murder, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, self-help, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, True Crime, Women, Young Adult
    Best Book Awards
  • “The Belle of Bedford Avenue: The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York”

    “The Belle of Bedford Avenue: The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York”

    The year was 1902 when Florence Burns, who craved excitement frequented dance halls, drank in roadhouses, and even smoked in public—a truly decadent act, discarded the standards of her well-to-do family to hang with the Bedford Avenue Gang.

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    January 17, 2021
    American History, History, Murder, mystery, True Crime
    Historic Crime, Kent State University Press, Murder, True Crime
  • Laziness Does Not Exist: Drilling Down on Procrastination

    Laziness Does Not Exist: Drilling Down on Procrastination

             “This isn’t getting the work of the world done,” my mother used to tell me when I was young and talking on the phone to friends instead of cleaning my room or putting away the dishes or whatever else needed to be done. I still don’t know exactly what the work of the world…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    January 13, 2021
    Art Institute of Chicago, Authors, Chicago, Culture, Psychology, self-help, Virtual Author Event
    #lazinessdoesnotexist", Atria Books, Chicago, Devon Price, Loyola University, Psychology, Virtual Book Event
  • Ina Garten: Modern Comfort Food

    Ina Garten: Modern Comfort Food

             “When I was a kid my mother would cut up hot dogs to add to canned split pea soup for me to eat,” Ina Garten tells me from the barn in West Hampton, New York where she creates and tests the recipes published in her cookbooks, including the latest Modern Comfort Food and on…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    December 30, 2020
    Authors, Cookbooks, Food, Recipes, Virtual Author Event
    Barefoot Contessa, Boston Cream Pie, Chicken Pot Pie Soup, Clarkson Potter, Comfort Food, Ina Garten, Recipes
  • President Obama’s Annual List of Favorites

    “As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites,” Barack Obama, the 42nd President of the United States, tweeted to his 127.5 million followers. “I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year, deliberately omitting what I think is a pretty good book – A Promised Land – by…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    December 28, 2020
    American History, Audiobooks, Autobiography, Barack Obama, Culture, Family, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Fiction, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, History, MacMillan, New York Times Best Seller, PenguinRandom House, Politics
    Barack Obama's 2020 Book Picks, Culture, Fiction, History, Memoir, Politics
  • One by One: Ruth Ware’s Locked Door Mystery

    One by One: Ruth Ware’s Locked Door Mystery

            It sounds idyllic–a lovely ski chalet with stunning views of the French Alps, a highly rated chef preparing all the meals, a full-service housekeeper, heated swimming pool, and a week away from the London office. Sure, it’s a corporate retreat for the eight employees of Snoop and that means tedious brainstorming sessions and a…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    December 26, 2020
    Authors, mystery, Thriller
    #onebyone, #ruthware, #ruthwarewriter, French Alps, Mystery-Thriller, One by One, Ruth Ware
  • Kate Collins Latest Mystery Series

    Kate Collins Latest Mystery Series

                Kate Collins, best-selling author of the popular Flower Shop mysteries, is—excuse our pun–branching out with her Goddess of Greene St., a series of cozy mysteries centered around single mom Athena Spencer who after divorcing returns home to work in her family’s garden center.             It was a big change not only for Athena but…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    December 7, 2020
    Authors, mystery, Series, Suspense, Women & Arts
    Flower Shop Mysteries, Goddess of Green Street, Kate Collins, Linda Tsoutsouris, mystery, Tea cozy
  • The Witch Hunter

    The Witch Hunter

    But is Roger Koponen really dead? A security camera at a passenger station picks up his image. Indeed, he seems to want to be recognized as he boldly stares straight into the lens.

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    December 4, 2020
    mystery, Thriller
    Finland, Mystery/thriller, Occult, Police procedural
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