Read Me Deadly: About Us

About Us

The Material Witnesses are avid readers of crime fiction of all types. We created this site as a place for readers to join us in talking about our devotion to reading crime fiction. But we like other kinds of books too and we're happy to bring them into the conversation.

Want to know more about us? Read our first posts, dated September 1, 2011.

You can follow us on Twitter @ReadMeDeadly.

Here's what we've been reading lately:

Della Streetwise

Ian Caldwell: The Fifth Gospel
Scott Phillips: Rake
Elisabeth de Mariaffi: The Devil You Know

Todd Moss: The Golden Hour
Knut Hamsun (trans. from Norwegian by Sverre
Lyngstad): Mysteries
Ruth Dudley Edwards: The Anglo-Irish Murders
Walter Tevis: The Queen's Gambit
Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire
Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep

Philip K. Dick: A Scanner Darkly

Georgette Spelvin

   Ludmila Ulitskaya: The Big Green Tent
   Susan Barker: The Incarnations
   Lauren Groff: Fates and Furies
   Maurizio de Giovanni: The Bottom of Your Heart
   Michel Houellebecq: Submission
   Paul Murray: The Mark and the Void
   Nancy Marie Brown: Ivory Vikings
   Greg Hrbek: Not on Fire, But Burning
   Martine Bailey: An Appetite for Violets

Tom McCarthy: Satin Island

Maltese Condor

Ann Cleeves: Harbour Street

Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men on the Bummel

Dorothy L. Sayers: The Nine Tailors

Thomas Wolfe: You Can't Go Home Again

Emma Jameson: Marriage Can be Murder
Harry Bingham: Love Story with Murders
Listening to Alexander M. Smith: What W.H. Auden
Can Do For You

Listening to Charles Krauthammer: Things that Matter

Sister Mary Murderous

Lily King: Euphoria
Phil Hogan: A Pleasure and a Calling
Jennie Rooney: Red Joan
Harry Bingham: The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths
Kate Fox: Watching the English
Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Time of Gifts: On Foot to
Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the
Middle Danube
Linda Grant: Upstairs at the Party