Water Hole , by Julian Jay Savarin, is a Gordon Gallagher thriller. There were at least five in the series and Water Hole is either the firs...

“‘Because my mother married a communist who wouldn’t kiss the rebbe’s ass. The rebbe , by the way, was Jacob Levy’s father. So, one man...

The Tribe , by Bari Wood (NAL, 1981), is a slow burning and suspenseful horror novel with a genuine Jewish golem at its core. It begins wi...

I’ve never been accused of being a great writer or a prolific writer, but in 2019 I approached “working” writer status. I had four or...

Jack Higgins’ The Eagle Has Landed thundered onto the book scene in 1975. It was published simultaneously in the United Kingdom, by Willia...

The Spy in the Box  was written by Ralph Dennis in the early 1980s, but this  Brash Books  edition, released nearly 40 years after it was ...

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 ....