(Editor’s note: This review comes from Steven Nester, host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap… Continue Reading
The Perfect Stranger (Simon & Schuster) offers up a perfectly delicious framework for a novel. How well do you know your best friend? It’s not as odd a question or as obvious an answer as it may seem. We discover… Continue Reading
The hot new read in Hollywood this weekend will be Marcus Sakey’s soon-to-be-published Afterlife, according to Deadline Hollywood: The hot book-to-movie property going into the weekend: Afterlife, a mind-bending science fiction novel by Marcus Sakey that tells a love story… Continue Reading
The great nations of the world, the ones whose internal or external intrigues are guaranteed global headlines, all seem to have a neighbor that serves the role of awkward younger sibling. I’ve lived in two of them. Believe me, I… Continue Reading
In a sad week for crime fiction, the mystery world lost three prolific and much honored authors: Iowa-based Ed Gorman (The Poker Club, Graves Retreat, Wolf Moon), Tennessee-born Clark Howard (City Blood, Quicksilver, Brothers in Blood) and Seattle resident Larry… Continue Reading
You don’t need anyone to tell you that By Gaslight is epic. One look at this potentially toe-crushing novel is enough to tell that story. At nearly 750 pages, it’s a big book. And though there will be those who… Continue Reading
Brad Meltzer’s new thriller, written with Tod Goldberg, is called The House of Secrets (Grand Central). The title comes from the name of a television program in which the host, Jack Nash, debunks mysteries. (It’s a lot like the author’s own… Continue Reading
For The Rap Sheet, editor J. Kingston Pierce chats with Art Taylor, author of On the Road with Del & Louise (Henery Press): After years of penning crime-oriented short fiction for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and other publications–and collecting a… Continue Reading