I like Bruce Springsteen; especially his later work. Specifically the handful of folk albums he has produced over the last several years st...

I’m a sucker for three things. The first is a cleverly plotted 1980s thriller. The second is a private eye novel. The third is any story tha...

The Attraction is a mass-market paperback released by Leisure Books in 2006. It contains two novellas. The first is the title piece, "T...

This is pretty great. It's a clip of Joe Lansdale reading part of a short story--"Dirt Devils"-- from a new collection titled ...

Annja Creed is an archaeologist and television personality on the cable television series Chasing History’s Monsters. She is beautiful, tale...

A quick note. Worldwide Mystery has released Ed Gorman's seventh Sam McCain novel Fools Rush In in mass market. Fools Rush In was origin...

A personal update is needed here to explain that posts, while hopefully no less frequent, are going to be a little less predictable. At leas...

It’s no surprise to the conscious reader that we’re smack in the middle of a crime noir revival. The old stuff is new again, and there is a ...

This is a review I originally published on Saddlebums September 14, 2007. As the title suggests it follows the exploits of the men and wome...

My wife and I saw Clint Eastwood's Changling last weekend at the bargain theater; we still call it the dollar theater, but it costs a b...

This is a bit sentimental. But I mean every word of it... 2008 was a tough year on mystery writers. It opened with the death of short story ...

The James-Younger gang has been done too many times in modern Western fiction, but Johnny D. Boggs has found a fresh perspective in his nove...

Jane Whitefield is in retirement. She married a surgeon, changed her name, and has worked diligently to keep her past behind her. A past tha...

This is kind of cool. Leisure Books recently announced a series of four Western novels in its upcoming Classic Film Collection. The novels a...

It’s nearly 2009 and that means one thing—well several things, but the most exciting is the Gravetapping top five reads of the year. The ru...

The latest issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine arrived in the mail Friday, and as always it is a treat. I have the mail schedule pretty ...

Apologies in advance. This is another retread review. I originally wrote it for SFReader.com last summer. It posted 27-July-2007. The good n...

I've read two thrillers by Haggai Carmon this year -- Triple Identity and The Red Syndrome -- and I enjoyed both. The novels feature D...

This is a repeat post (at least the review of "The Blood Beneath When the World Draws Back") . It first went live 21-June-2007. It...

Leo Guild is an aging bounty hunter. He is a former lawman, father and husband, but that is all behind him. Now he rides alone. He is melanc...