Good news for fans of the academic mystery. Joanne Dobson is penning a new Karen Pelletier mystery, but there’s no release date listed on her new website.

More good news, this time for fans of the traditional English village mystery. Veronica Heley will continue her Ellie Quicke series and debut another series about a widow who runs an agency that helps people solve problems that are too tricky for the police. The first in the Abbot Agency series is called False Charity.

Are mystery awards (Agatha, Anthony, etc.) a boon to an author—bigger audience and bigger advances or just a nice “pat on the back” from the mystery writing community as Eddie Muller says in this article? (Scroll down to second half of article for his argument.)

And J.K. Rowling outed a character from the Harry Potter books during a recent Q & A with readers. I have to ask, why bring this up now after the last book is written?