Misogyny & Murder: Betty Webb’s Polygamy Mysteries by Ben Boulden   Mystery writer and journalist Betty Webb made a literary splas...

Jim Kjelgaard’s Adventure Magazine Stories by Ben Boulden Jim Kjelgaard (pronounced kel-guard ) is best remembered for his young adult a...

  A Little About Jack Higgins: A Life in Writing by Ben Boulden Jack Higgins is a familiar name to most readers. His thrillers have rout...

Domino Island – published in 2019 by HarperCollins – is Desmond Bagley’s “lost” novel. The manuscript (ms) was discovered by the researcher...

        William G. Tapply’s tenth Brady Coyne novel, The Spotted Cats , is a measured affair defined by its rich characters and Coyne’s sens...

The 1970’s men’s fiction market was rotten with revenge tales populated by veterans of America’s unpopular war in Vietnam. These isolated, d...

“If You Have Another Hobby, Take That Up”:  The Thrillers of Harrison Arnston by Ben Boulden Harrison Arnston – Harry to his friends an...

  Professional Tennis, Amateur Spying: Jack M. Bickham’s Brad Smith Thrillers by Ben Boulden The six Brad Smith espionage thrillers, pub...

        A new edition of a great mystery novel is officially on the street:   The Tenth Virgin , by Gary Stewart. Set in Salt Lake City and ...

       Any readers kind enough to frequent Gravetapping have noticed an eerie quiet has settled in over the past several months. I was bored...

       Richard Matheson’s 1958 novel,  A Stir of Echoes , is more than a horror story. The plot is speculative—Tom Wallace, after being hypn...

              My companion to the late-Jack Bickham’s novels, titled Killers, Crooks & Spies: Jack Bickham’s Fiction , is coming out ne...

        The Bill Crider tribute anthology, Bullets and Other Hurting Things , edited by Rick Ollerman (Down & Out Books), hit the street...

Double Feature , a 2020 release from Hard Case Crime and originally published as Enough in 1977, includes a short novel and a novella. The n...

Hollywood Nocturnes , by James Ellroy, was published in hardcover by Otto Penzler Books in 1994. The edition that caught my eye is Dell’s pa...

This is review is for a book different from the usual fare at Gravetapping , but it is a marvelous and important novel that satisfies on eve...

  When books appear as set background in film and television, I spend more time identifying the books than paying attention to the story. Wh...

Condominium , by John D. MacDonald, was published in hardcover by J.P. Lippincott in 1977, but the edition that caught my eye is Fawcett Cre...

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...