Mystery & Crime Fiction Blog Carnival for December 2010

It is time for another highly anticipated Blog Carnival. In the midst of hectic holiday shopping, the blog carnival gives ideas for crime fiction to give to those on your list. Below is the line-up. Click on the title or author's name to go to that link.

Police Procedural Book Review

Reactions to Reading gives us The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell

Rhapsody in Books gives us a legal mystery The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly

Private Investigator Book Review

San Francisco Book Reviews gives us Bone Appetit by Carolyn Haines

Tiny Little Reading Room gives us Big Red Tequila by Rick Riordan

Rundpinne gives us The Paris Enigma by Pablo De Santis

Amateur Sleuth book Review

Reviews by Christy gives us No Such Thing As A Secret by Shelly Fredman

Rhapsody in Books gives us Mistress of the Art of Death by by Ariana Franklin

Reactions to Reading gives us The Serpent and The Scorpion by Clare Langley-Hawthorne

Reactions to Reading gives us A Colder Kind of Death by Gail Bowen

Cozy Mystery Book Review

Lesa's Book Critique gives us Holiday Grind by Cleo Coyle

Kittling: Books gives us Night Kill by Ann Littlewood

Thriller/Suspense Fiction Book Review

The Incurable Disease of Writing reviewed The God Hater by Bill Myers

Find Your Next Good Read reviewed The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

Author Interview

About Bed & Breakfasts provides an interview with author Jean Hager

Suite 101 provides an interview with author Sandra Brown

Writing Tips and Advice

 Writer Sense gives us  Omitting Needless Words

Plot Whisperer gives us the 3rd Annual International Plot Writing Month

Writer Sense gives us Creating Characters: Motive

Plot Whisperer gives us 5 Reasons Writers Get Stuck with Tips How to Unstuck

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