JOE'S BACK! The new Joe Portugal mystery, Bad Developments, is appearing as a serial on FourStory, the affordable housing advocacy website I edit (and which previously published The Underbelly by Gary Phillips. Read the first installment.
• I pick who should play Joe, Gina, and the rest of the gang
on My Book, The Movie.
• My story "Bad for His Image" (read an excerpt) and its accompanying song "Be My Poodle" (listen to a sample) appear in A Merry Band of Murderers, a book/CD package recently published by Poisoned Pen Press. Editors are Claudia Bishop and Don Bruns. Plus: photos of the Merry Band at Bouchercon 2006 and from the Merry Band gig at the Mystery Bookstore. And: info on the audiobook.
• Walpow & Gorbachev ... I meet the man who really ended the Cold War.
• Landmarked for Murder, the Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles short story anthology I co-edited with Harley Jane Kozak and Michael Mallory, also appears this year.
• I wax eloquent about the portrayal of Los Angeles homes and gardens in crime fiction.
• Joe Portugal book four, The Manipulated, is on bookstore shelves now. Read Chapter 1.
"A moving, fulfilling read."
Mystery Scene Magazine
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"Instantly absorbs the reader."
Crime Spree Magazine
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"Strongly recommended."
Library Journal
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"Nathan Walpow is the real thing."
Mystery News Magazine
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• Walpow gets musical ... the Palers' Band performs at B.B. King's.
• Read my author interview at Books'n'Bytes.
• Previous Joe Portugal mysteries include One Last Hit, Death of an Orchid Lover, and The Cactus Club Killings. Learn about them here.
• "Push Comes to Shove" is in The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, edited by Lawrence Block. All my other published short stories are available online.
• Teeming millions want to know all about me. Here's my mildly exciting life story. And don't miss:
Appearance schedule • San Jose Mercury News article • Alaska Adventure after LCC11
The incredible Sledge Hammer! photo • Mystery Jeopardy triumph at LCC10
Thanks to Lora Ruffner at Accent Design Studios for the ding.
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