2019 was a solid reading year. I finished 51 titles, which is 13 fewer than last year’s mark. As usual, the majority of the titles were ...

The Poker Club , by Ed Gorman, originally published as a limited and signed edition hardcover by Cemetery Dance in 1999, is an expansion...

The Bavarian Connection , by Don Smith, is the twentieth installment of the popular Secret Mission series. It was a paperback original publi...

“Sometimes, something happens that you can’t forgive. And it kills you because you can’t forgive. You drag it along with you your whole ...

The Fall Line , by Mark T. Sullivan, was published in hardcover by Kensington in 1994, but the edition that caught my eye is the Pinnacle pa...

Missing at Tenoclock (1994), as by Arthur Williams—a one-off pseudonym of the prolific and reliably good Jack M. Bickham—is the first of...

“I found Edward Dollery, age forty-seven, defrocked accountant, big spender and dishonest person, living in a house rented in the name o...

Some Die Hard is Stephen Mertz’s first published novel. It appeared as a paperback original in 1979 from the low-rent New York publisher ...

The Name of the Game is Death , by Dan J. Marlowe, was a paperback original published by Gold Medal in 1962, but the edition that caught my ...

      My magic as a writer—if I have any—happens in the second and third and fourth drafts. The first draft is a mad and passionate sprin...

I have a brand new short story in an anthology that hit the street last week. The anthology is Paul Bishop Presents… Criminal Tendencies ....

Me, Hood! , by Mickey Spillane, is a paperback original published by Signet Books in 1969, which is the very the edition that caught my eye....

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 Ste...

I’ve been pushing my own stuff too frequently the past few weeks, both here and at Gravetapping’s Facebook page, but—and please forgive me—I...

Deathwatch , by Elleston Trevor, was published as a hardcover by Beaufort Books in 1985, but the edition that caught my eye was the Star Boo...

It’s been far too long since I’ve had a story published, but a few days ago saw my short story, “No Chips, No Bonus”, published in the ex...

Vanda Symon’s Overkill , featuring Constable Sam Shephard, first appeared in Symon’s native New Zealand in 2007 and the series has since ...

This is good news. Brash Books is bringing out a brand new Ralph Dennis novel with an intriguing history. A Talent for Killing is two nove...

Nightmare , by Edward S. Aarons, was published as a hardcover by David McKay in 1948. The edition that caught my eye was MacFadden Books ’ ...