2015 was a great year for reading in both quantity and quality. I finished 61 titles, and will likely finish one more—the forthcoming Out o...

My review of Loren D. Estleman’s most recent Amos Walker novel, The Sundown Speech ,   is live and online at Ed Gorman’s blog. The settin...

Richard Wheeler’s latest novel, Anything Goes , is now available in hardcover from Forge. It is Mr. Wheeler’s “first print novel…publishe...

My review of Carolyn Hart’s enjoyable novel High Stakes is live and online at Ed Gorman’s blog. It is cold war romantic suspense with a n...

Matt Helm is a solid citizen.  He is married with three children.  He makes a living writing popular novels (western’s mostly), and lives...

The Mexico Run   was a paperback original published by Fawcett Gold Medal in 1974, which is the very edition that caught my eye. The cover ...

 Murderers’ Row is the fifth Matt Helm novel.   It was originally published by Gold Medal in 1962, and it is the best of the ten or so ...

There are two new titles now available from the Stark House imprint Black Gat Books . If you’re not familiar with Black Gat , you’re in ...

“It must be the same as deprogramming a Jesus freak: The intellectual argument never counted because there was no intelligence involved.”...

My review of Fate of the Union —the second Reeder and Rogers thriller—by Max Allan Collins and Matthew Clemens is live and online at Ed G...

I’ve been knowingly reading the work of Stephen Mertz for nearly a decade; unknowingly since I was a teenager—all the way back in the lat...

The Stars Like Dust was originally published by Doubleday & Company as a hardcover in 1951. The edition that caught my attention was a ...

My review of Christine Matthews’ fine novel Beating the Bushes is available at Ed Gorman’s blog. Beating the Bushes is a smoothly writt...

For some reason Mystery Scene Magazine is allowing me to do a few book reviews for its print and online editions. The first is for Sandr...

Hard Case Crime recently released a new Stephen King novel—straight to trade paperback—titled Joyland .   It is a short novel, probably not...

Richard Laymon was unique voice in the horror genre. His work was always entertaining, but never for the faint of heart. It contained large...

Richard Laymon is a legend in the horror genre. His work is brutal, violent and, at times, almost pornographic. His novel Come Out Tonigh...

Grandmaster was published in 1984. It won an Edgar Award for best paperback original in 1985, and it is the first, by my count, of seven ...