The Tenth Virgin , by Gary Stewart (St. Martin’s Press, 1983), is the best mystery novel set in Utah I have read. It is a private eye nov...

In 1989 a midlist writer named Jack Bickham published the slim suspense novel Tiebreaker . It was the first of six novels featuring agin...

Never Live Twice , by Dan J. Marlowe, was published as a paperback original by Fawcett Gold Medal in 1964. The edition that caught my eye is...

The Burning Sky , by Ron Faust, was published in hardcover by Playboy Press in 1978, which is the very edition that caught my eye. The cover...

It’s bargain Friday, and this time around I’ve collected a few free ebooks for your consideration. The first is W. Glenn Duncan’s Raffer...

Ed Gorman is best remembered as a crime and western writer, but he wrote eight horror novels between 1986 ( Toys in the Attic ) and 1996 ...

A bargain on Robert Silverberg’s dark masterpiece, The Book of Skulls , and it’s in time for the socially distanced weekend. For a limited...

A bargain on the Richard Laymon’s In the Dark in time for the weekend. This was my introduction to Laymon’s work and I have fond memories...

A bargain on the first book in Gregory Mcdonald’s Flynn . The first novel (of four) in, wait for it, the Flynn series. It’s a great weeken...

Stark House Press and its imprint Black Gat Books are my favorite classic crime publishers. Black Gat publishes beautiful mass market p...

The Wolf in the Clouds is Ron Faust’s second published novel. It was originally published as a hardcover by Bobbs-Merrill’s Black Bat My...

To Die in Beverly Hills , by Gerald Petievich, was published in hardcover by Arbor House in 1983. The edition that caught my eye was Pinnacl...

The February Stark House Press newsletter is live at their website: “The lead title—the book that Crime Club members will receive...

Cannon: Murder by Gemini , by Richard Gallagher was published as a paperback original by Magnum Books in 1971, which is the very edition tha...

Ron Faust published 15 novels in a career that spanned nearly 40 years. The first, Tombs of Blue Ice , appeared in 1974 and the last, Ja...

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...