2016 was a great year for reading. I finished 56 titles, which is four short of last year’s mark. The majority of the titles were fiction...

I was intending to review a few Christmas stories on the blog this year, but time and other commitments got the better of me so I decided...

The latest issue of Mystery Scene Magazine —No. 147—is at a newsstand near you. It is MS ’s special Holiday Issue and it is packed, as us...

The Last Man on Earth is an anthology featuring post-apocalyptic stories. It was published as a paperback original by Fawcett Crest in 198...

Vincent Lloyd is broken. His six-year old daughter disappeared a few years earlier, and he was the prime suspect. He was suspected by the...

The Big Needle is Ken Follett’s first published novel – as by “Symon Myles” in 1974 – and what it lacks in complexity and subtlety is re...

Death is My Shadow was published as a hardcover by Thomas Bourgey & Company in 1957. The edition that caught my eye is the mass market...

Today, November 2, 2016, would be Ed Gorman ’ s 75th birthday and it has been dubbed as Ed Gorman Day around the blogospere. I struggled...

I have always wanted to hear Sherlock Holmes say— “Zombies.” and “The undead.” —but I didn’t know it until I read those words in...

I found out yesterday Ed Gorman died late Friday night, October 14, 2016, after a years long struggle with multiple myeloma. A disease ...

The latest issue of Mystery Scene Magazine —No. 146—is at a newsstand near you. The issue is packed, as usual. It features a detailed and...

This morning I made a wonderful discovery. Three of H. A. DeRosso’s books are back in print as trade paperbacks and low cost ebooks. Two ar...