Both Laura DiSilverio and Brad Parks were pledging to bone up on their Sherlock Holmes when I queried them late in 2013 (see Mystery, LJ 1/14, p. 76, for the full report). In her email, OiSilverio confessed "shamefacedly" that she hadn't read a lick of Doyle. Parks was even blunter when he wrote, "Have I ever read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? No. Does this get more embarrassing to me with each year I try to pass myself off as a mystery novelist? Yes." Both authors have reading suggestions for us. Parks cannot rave enough about Jamie Mason's debut thriller, Three Graves Full (LJ 2/15/13), suggesting that "it'll definitely have you hooked by the end of the first chapter." DiSilverio touts the darkly atmospheric work of Cornelia Read.
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