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Vacationland’s Dark Side
During the cold, dark days of February, it’s fun for us to turn back to some of our older posts, and rerun them for you. When Paul wrote about the dark side, he wrote it on a sunny Maine day … Continue reading
Falling Through the Ice
Paul Doiron here— The other day, while I was driving, I noticed a person standing on a half-frozen pond. I have no idea what he was doing out there, but the first ice of the winter seems to do strange … Continue reading
Is Sennebec, Maine, a Real Place?
Paul Doiron here— One of the questions I get asked most often is about the locations in my books. Readers want to know if there really is a Bad Little Falls (yes, it’s in downtown Machias) or an actual Square … Continue reading
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Tagged Appleton, Bad Little Falls, Catawunkeg Bog, fictional locations, Flagstaff Lake, Hemingway's Paris, Joyce's Ulysses, Machias, Maine map, McDonald's, Mike Bowditch, Moody's Diner, Paul Doiron, Sennebec, Square Deal Diner, The Poacher's Son, Union, Warren, Washington County Jail, William Faulkner, Yoknapatawpha County
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The Scariest Book I Ever Read Was . . .
In honor of Halloween, one of crime writers’ favorite holidays, we’re recycling a post from the past in which we shared our own scary favorites and solicited views from some of our Sisters (and Brothers) in Crime. Just as scary … Continue reading
Tagged A Sight for Sore Eyes, Bad Little Falls, Carol O'Connell, Catherine Haynes, Criminal Minds, Daphne du Maurier, Edge of Dark Water, Erik Larsen, Farthing, Francis Dolarhyde, Group Post, Hallie Ephron, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Hannibal Lecter, Into the Darkest Corner, James Herbert, Janis Bolster, Jo Walton, Joe R. Lansdale, Lea Wait, Lisa Haselton, Marni Graff, Paul Doiron, Poe, Rebecca, Red Dragon, Robbie Harold, Rosemary's Baby, Ruth McCarty, ruth rendell, Salems Lot, scary mysteries, Sisters in Crime, Stephen King, Susan Santangelo, The Cask of Amontillado, The Devil in the White City, The Fog, The Other Woman, The Pit and the Pendulum, the vault, Thomas Harris, Vicki Doudera, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Now It Can Be Told, Part Tres by Paul Doiron
I want to continue what is rapidly becoming a MaineCrimeWriters.com tradition by announcing some good news here. As most regular visitors to this site know, I recently published the third novel in my Mike Bowditch series of Maine mysteries. This was … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Little Falls, Massacre Pond, Mike Bowditch, Minotaur Books, Paul Doiron, Scarborough
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What the Writers Are Reading
Kate Flora here, facing Labor Day, and the end of summer, and that sense that things will start cranking up and my leisurely summer afternoons reading in my L.L. Bean rocking chair are coming to an end. So for this weekend, … Continue reading
Tagged A Beautiful Mystery, Archer Mayor, Bad Little Falls, Bring Up The Bodies, Charles Dickens, Defending Jacob, Denis Johnson, Group Post, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Here We Are In Paradise, Hilary Mantel, Joseph Finder, Louise Penny, Lucy Burdette, Paul Doiron, Rachel Maddow, Sarah Graves, The Other Woman, Tony Early, Train Dreams, William Landay
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Bedtime Stories
Paul Doiron here— Recently I was asked to write a guest column for Suzanne Beecher’s DearReader.com. I know that her newsletter goes out far and wide, but in the event you missed it, here is what I wrote: My wife … Continue reading
The Last Days of the Book Tour
Paul Doiron here with a brief note from the road: I am writing this post in a balcony suite at the Hotel ZaZa in Houston, Texas. My room overlooks verdant Hermann Park and the city skyline. In a few hours … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Little Falls, Hotel ZaZa, Houston, Murder by the Book, Paul Doiron
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An Excerpt from “Bad Little Falls”
Paul Doiron here— Tomorrow, my third novel in the Mike Bowditch series, Bad Little Falls, lands in bookstores. Publication day is always a milestone in an author’s life no matter how many novels you have published. The book that you … Continue reading
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