Gulf Stream , by Cherokee Paul McDonald, was published as a paperback original by Popular Library in August 1988, which is the very edition ...

Bill Crider is best known for his Sheriff Dan Rhodes mystery novels, but his work is not limited to any one genre or style. His Dan Rhodes...

2017 has been a great year for reading. I finished 54 titles, which is two short of last year’s mark and six shy of 2015’s. The majority...

Bud Turley, called Bud Squirrelly by those who thought he had a lot of peculiar ideas, put the gigantic tooth down on Sheriff Dan Rhodes...

Compound Murder is the twentieth novel featuring Blacklin County, Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. The series started in 1986 with Too Late to...

A little more than a week ago, Bill Crider announced he was entering hospice care after battling cancer the last eighteen months. I’ve n...

I have a brand-new interview with Garry Disher, the guy who gave us professional criminal Wyatt and the Hal Challis and Ellen Destry pol...

Avalanche Express , by Colin Forbes, was originally published as a hardcover by E. P. Dutton & Co. in 1977, the edition that caught my e...

Quarry’s Climax , the fourteenth title in Max Allan Collins’ revitalized Quarry series, is set in the Highland Strip area of Memphis in ...

The latest issue of Mystery Scene Magazine —No. 152—is at a newsstand near you. As usual, it is packed. It features interviews with Ja...

I participated in something called My Life in Black and White on Facebook. It is seven days, one photo each day, of ordinary life without co...

Bring Him Back Dead and There was a Crooked Man , by Day Keene. Bring Him Back Dead and There was a Crooked Man were paperback originals...

The winners are in for the Blaze! Spanish Gold giveaway, each chosen randomly with a number generator in MS Excel. Before I announce t...

Today marks the waning hours to enter the giveaway for one of two signed paperbacks of Blaze! Spanish Gold . The deadline is tonight, 11...

Fate of the Union  is the second novel—after  Supreme Justice  (2014)—featuring former Secret Service Agent Joe Reeder and current FBI Age...

My second Blaze! book, Spanish Gold , has been out for three weeks. The Halloween holiday is a memory, I have a handful of author copies,...

Harrison Arnston’s The Third Illusion , published by Harper as a paperback original in 1993, is a nicely played hybrid of the private ...