#248 27 Aug 2013 | 05:13 pm

Dear Query Shark, A flash-point exists between Afghanistan and Pakistan and only the tiniest spark will send these two countries into war with each other, and Operations Officer Steven Frisk, a Analy...

#247 12 Aug 2013 | 06:01 am

Dear QueryShark: An old diary, a stone bench, a poisonous flower, Irish folklore. Jen McKenna has to find the connection in order to save her grandmother’s life and possibly her own. I'm voting for ...

#246 12 Aug 2013 | 05:22 am

Dear QueryShark: When Nix’s father locates a good map of Honolulu in 1868, she knows she’s in trouble. It’s not the trouble of time travel -- Nix grew up sailing from map to map and era to era. Nor ...

#245 6 Jul 2013 | 08:48 pm

Update on QS #224 1 Jul 2013 | 10:32 pm

In today's Publishers Lunch deal list: Mystery/Crime Minerva Koenig's NINE DAYS, featuring a damned good criminal now in the witness protection program, who doesn't have much of a chance to adjust to...

#244 9 Jun 2013 | 07:13 pm

Dear QueryShark Winston Smith has been a foolish man, and on Christmas Day of 2012, it's going to cost him his life. This is a great opening line. Do I want to find out what happened? You bet. On t...

#243 23 May 2013 | 04:11 am

a. Word Count: 43,000 b. Title: Patrick – The Younger [Children's Historical Fiction] c. Contact Info: (author name) You know not to start with this because you read the archives. Don't start with th...

#242 15 Apr 2013 | 11:11 pm

Dear QueryShark: His code name: Kangaroo. His special ability: The Pocket--a unique portal into an empty "pocket universe," which Kangaroo can use to smuggle contraband throughout the Solar System fo...

Introducing the Sharkives--revised 25 Mar 2013 | 03:22 am

The amazing Michale Lewis has uploaded all the QueryShark archives to my DropBox account in pdf format. The Sharkives are the QueryShark Archives in a ten separate documents. Rather than clicking bac...

#241 23 Mar 2013 | 07:30 pm

Dear QueryShark: Vani is an avid reader whose favourite author is Jane Austen. She dreams of becoming a teacher and marrying a man like Mr. Darcy. Instead, she becomes a live-in servant for a British...