Mysterious Blogs: Authors

EQMM has a column called Blog Bytes... let's see what was reviewed in the Jan 2010 issue:

Kent's Rants:
http://williamkentkrueger.com/blog
Believe it or not, I used to know this author! We both used to work for the same company in Minnesota. It was decades ago, though...I think he was a computer guru at the company...but I attended his very first book signing/reading for his very first novel - jealous as all get out because he'd finished a novel and had it published...and I hadn't finished anythimg! Now, a decade later....he's had several more books published and I... well... I have my blogs and webzines. ; )

Kent is the author of the Cork O'Connell mysteries. (Cork O'Connor is part Irish, part Ojibwe. When Krueger decided to set the series in northern Minnesota, he realised that a large percentage of the population of the county he had selected as a model for the fictional Tamarack County of his books was of mixed heritage)
Iron Lake - 1998
Boundary Waters - 1999
Purgatory Ridge -2001
The Devil’s Bed - 2003
Blood Hollow - 2004
Mercy Falls - 2005
Copper River - 2006
Thunder Bay - 2007
Red Knife - 2008
Heaven's Keep - 2009

John Harvey has a blog called Mellotone70Up Blog, located at: http://mellotone70up.wordpress.com.

John Harvey (born 21 December 1938 in London) is a British author of crime fiction most famous for his series of jazz-influenced Charlie Resnick novels, based in the City of Nottingham. Harvey has also published over 90 books under various names, and has worked on scripts for TV and radio.

He also ran Slow Dancer Press from 1977 to 1999 publishing poetry. The first Resnick novel, Lonely Hearts, was published in 1989, and was named by The Times as one of the 100 Greatest Crime Novels of the Century. Harvey brought the series to an end in 1998 with Last Rites, though Resnick has since made peripheral appearances in Harvey's new Frank Elder series.

The protagonist Elder is a retired detective who now lives, as Harvey briefly did, in Cornwall. The first novel in this series, Flesh and Blood, won Harvey the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger in 2004, an accolade many crime fiction critics thought long overdue. In 2007 he was awarded the Diamond Dagger for a Lifetime's Contribution to the genre.

On 14th July 2009 he received an honorary degree (Doctor of Letters) from the University of Nottingham in recognition of his literary eminence and his associations with both the University and Nottingham (particularly in the Charlie Resnick novels). He is also a big Notts County fan.

I confess I've never read a Charlie Resnick novel. BBC7 will occasionally play book recordings...read by the actor who played Inspector Japp in the Hercule Poirot mystseries that starred David Suchet, Philip Jackson, and the snippets I'd heard didn't raise my interest. However, your mileage may vary.