He parked in a little neighborhood near the service road. He sat behind the wheel with his...
Ozzie Boone said that any talent—whether to write songs or to write novels or to track p...
There are two strains in the tradition of the mystery story. They exist in tension but are...
After you have suffered great losses and known much pain, it is not cowardice to wish to l...
Nick Pirog’s Thomas Prescott novels are worth reading just to watch a writer learning hi...
I do not understand that discipline called “Ethnography,” which seems to me the valid...
The 2009 film version of Robert E. Howard’s second most famous fantasy hero, Solomon K...
The taste of the cheeseburger lingered in my mouth. Not the ketchup or the onion or even ...
The first time I watched "Damsels in Distress," Whit Stillman’s most recent (after a t...
From time to time, I review a novel and tell you that I admired the writing, but did not...
Simon Orwell is a bartender who used to be an electrical engineer. When we first encount...
One of the delights of owning a Kindle is that often, when you’ve finished a book in a...
Hard Case Crime is an intriguing specialized imprint. Their publishing strategy, which I...
In such a short time, Mrs. Fischer and I had achieved a degree of friendship that a...
I’m fascinated by old Hollywood. Even modern Hollywood interests me mildly, but the si...
When you follow free and discount e-book blogs, you learn to have low expectations. Gene...
In the perfection of her song, by the voice that sprang from her, speaking words as he ha...
[Weather] said, “Look, whatever – I’m not talking about all of that. I’m talkin...
Lee would have to be mad to send his divisions across that field. And Hunt was sure he w...
“I just don’t know why you can’t have it both ways. You know, give unbridled effort...
Annette Funicello, famous as an early Mousketeer and as the star of a string of 1960s be...
“I’m jealous,” she said, pretending not to be. “You could have had room service w...
I wonder if the recent popularity surge of Scandinavian detective novels influenced Mich...
See, I’d seen that look before. That wrinkled nose, that laughing sparkle in the eyes....
So I finally saw The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. And I enjoyed it. And yet… I under...
One thing that can be said for Dean Koontz is that he likes to mix it up. His characters...
I ought to dislike the new CBS TV series, “Elementary” more than I do. Conan Doyle’...
John Sandford is a darned good mystery/thriller writer, and more than a one-note perform...
It's a matter of record that my mother's mother grew up in the logging and mining town o...
The Western mystery story is not as rare a phenomenon as you might think. The conventions ...
… Two people + their problems < hill of beans. Not an equation we understood. And ...
My friend Anthony Sacramone of Strange Herring blog posted a rare serious article today,...
The eyes of the world were on Norway today. Not one but two international stories focuse...
