Train Dreams by Denis Johnson Picador, 2012   Johnson’s novella, which was published originally in The Paris Rev...

I love book advertising in all its forms—especially the printed variety. The ads below appeared in the Fall 1993 issue of the ma...

  Chain of Evidence by Garry Disher Soho Crime, 2007   Chain of Evidence —which won the Crime Writers Association of...

  Manifesto for the Dead by Domenic Stansberry Permanent Press, 2000     Manifesto for the Dead hit bookstores ...

  The Cleveland John Doe Case by Thibault Raisse Crime Ink, 2025     On the afternoon of July 30, 2002, the body ...

  William Shatner’s TekWar   Back in the long ago when I was so young I thought William Shatner wrote the books—he didn’t,...

  “The Man on the Beach” by Henning Mankell Novellix, 2019     In my waning memory, it was Henning Mankell’s stor...

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler   Reviewed by Mike Baker   “The room was so quiet you could almost hear the tem...

  Booked (and Printed) March 2025   Ah, Spring is in the air—wait, it’s snowing? Right now? March’s weather was topsy...

  Bitterfrost by Bryan Gruley Severn House, 2025   Bitterfrost , the first in a new mystery series by Edgar Award...