Happy Easter everyone, a day late. These Pysanky Easter eggs are 27 years old. The tradition was brought to Pennsylvania by Ukrainian immigrants who came to work the mines many decades ago.
The design is created by dipping a pin in wax and using it to paint. When the egg is dipped in dye, the design emerges. Pretty much the same principle as with the kits you buy in the pharmacy these days only much more delicate because of the pin. This photo I posted recently on FaceBook generated some interest. It is called a spite house, one of four in Alexandria, Virginia.
More at https://alexandrialivingmagazine.com/home-and-garden/queen-street-spite-house-alexandria-va-historic-alley-homes/ Charles Hewitt and his mother-in-law Magdalene solve a crime on vacation in G.M. Malliet’s “The Pact,”
Look for it in the May/June 2023 issue on sale at newsstands on April 18, 2023. Or subscribe to EQMM in print or in a wide variety of digital formats. https://www.elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/next-issue/ I'm on deadline to return corrected proofs of THE WASHING AWAY OF WRONGS - MAX TUDOR #8 - to Hachette / Little, Brown by April 17. The world will have to stop until then. With time off to celebrate Easter, of course. Image by Krysten Merriman
The cover has just been approved for Max Tudor #8 and should be appearing online any day now. This book also has a MAP of the fictional St Luke's College, Oxford, and I'm very excited about that. There may be a giveaway or two for subscribers to my newsletter. So don't forget to sign up on my website at gmmalliet dot com.
![]() The Short Mystery Fiction Society has announced the nominees for the prestigious 2023 Derringer, to be awarded at Bouchercon in San Diego this year. I'm thrilled to say I am on the list in the long form category. Congratulations, everyone! Flash Catch and Release - April Kelly Acknowledgments - Karen Harrington Easter Spam - John Weagly The Final Chapter - James Blakey Where Palms Sway and the Surf Pounds - Curtis Ippolito Short Double Trouble - M.E. Proctor Hiding Out in Cedar Key -Sharon Marchisello The Shape of Australia - Christine Poulson My Two-Legs - Melissa Yuan-Innes Digging In - Andrew Welsh-Huggins Long The Vigil - Toni Goodyear Tethered - Marcelle Dubé The White Calf and the Wind - Mike Adamson The Donovan Gang - John M. Floyd Negative Tilt - Bobby Mathews Something Blue - G.M. Malliet Novelette The Wraith of Bunker Hill - Paul D. Marks Two Shrimp Tacos and a .22 Ruger - Adam Meyer Dead Men Tell No Tales - Liz Filleul The Refusal Camp - James Benn Ripen - Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier The eighth Max Tudor mystery, THE WASHING AWAY OF WRONGS, will have a map of the setting, which is St. Luke's College, Oxford.
St. Luke's is Max's old college, and he is called in by his bishop and the principal to investigate the possible murder of the college chaplain. More to come on that map. It is drawn by Rhys Davies and it's another beauty. The book will publish in September 2023. https://www.rhysspieces.com |
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G.M. Malliet
.Agatha Award-winning author of the DCI St. Just mysteries, Max Tudor mysteries, standalone suspense novel WEYCOMBE, Augusta Hawke mysteries, and dozens of short stories. Books offered in all formats, including large print, e-Book, and audio. Archives
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