I have a love-hate relationship with the work of Richard Laymon. I mostly really enjoy his work, but every so often one comes along that mak...

Peter Mallory is on the verge of obtaining everything he has ever wanted. He owns a business, he is a respected resident of the community, a...

Earlier this week Fresh Air on NPR re-broadcast a 1987 interview with novelist James Crumley. It was only nine minutes and I wish the entire...

I saw a great film this weekend. It was a crime thriller with a very modern noir feel—a bit nihilistic, and very, very dark. It has the paci...

May 1957. Baby Shark—a former pool hustler turned Texas private eye—is backup in a ransom deal. Her partner, Otis Millett, is the front man ...

Earlier this year the film adaptation of Jack Ketchum’s novel Red screened at Sundance Film Festival—a festival that’s pretty much in my ba...

The film Man on Fire is somewhere—don’t ask me where—in my top three or four favorite action films. It is raw, brutal, violent, and redempti...

I've been meaning to get a link to this for several days and here, finally, it is. Dave Zeltserman, a writer who specializes in dark cri...

The year is 2022. The world economy has been destroyed by a lethal computer virus called PeaceMaker. It wiped out the economic infrastructur...

A few months ago I mentioned David Morrell has a new novel scheduled for release October 28 titled The Spy Who Came for Christmas . I have s...

Dan Rhodes is the Sheriff of the rural Texas county of Blacklin. Its residents are what one would expect—unique, strange, humorous, friendly...

This is a review I originally wrote for SFReader, probably something like three years ago, and I've been thinking about several of the s...

A few weeks ago Robert J. Randisi announced his first Rat Pack mystery— Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime —had been optioned for film and to...

A little over a year ago I reviewed the novel Threat Case by J.C. Pollock—a writer I devoured as a teenager in the early-1990s—and while I ...

Desmond Bagley was one of the first thriller writers I discovered. I found his terrific novel Flyaway in a paperback exchange as a teenager...

I stumbled across a new novel by Stephen Hunter that features Bob Lee Swagger. The title: Night of Thunder . It is scheduled for release Sep...

I discovered a new television series yesterday. It isn’t currently in production, but it is new to me. It stars William Conrad—the guy I cle...

I received some really cool news from Robert J. Randisi a few days ago… I've sold film rights to my first Rat Pack book, EVERYBODY KILLS...

It’s probably not a secret to my regular readers, but I enjoy the work of Don Pendelton— his original The Executioner novels as well as his...

Tom Piccirilli has successfully made the transition from horror writer to mystery writer over the past few years, and while the genre he wri...