Dean Koontz is a marvelously talented and prolific writer. His work carries back decades; his first published novel was one-half of an ACE D...

I'm not sure if I want to publicly admit this, but I've been on a Charles Bronson kick the last few months. I've watched a few o...

I ran across a film adaptation of a an Ed Gorman short story: "The Long Silence After". I haven't read the short story and I...

Elmore Leonard is known as a crime writer, but at the beginning of his career he wrote some pretty good westerns, both novels and short stor...

I started out this evening cruising through IMDB looking for films based on the novels of Alistair MacLean and I ended up at YouTube watchin...

David Baxter is a wanted man. He is a former CIA operative who, six years earlier, stopped a terrorist attack and in the process killed a ma...

A couple fishing buddies—both former Delta Force operators—are camped by a remote lake in the Canadian wilderness. They are old friends, but...

Over at the Rap Sheet a few days ago J. Kingston Pierce posted, in response to a meme, the different covers of the Erle Stanley Gardner nov...

There is an excellent short film available on the web for free. The title: Peekers ; it is based on a short story by Kealan Patrick Burke. M...

A few months ago—November 10 th when I actually checked and wondered where the hell time goes—I posted a review of a short story by Tim Mal...

I’ve “rediscovered” The Executioner over the last year. I voraciously read this series as a teenager and somewhere between eighteen and twen...

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...