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Book Review: Shore Excursion by Marie Moore
Danger on the high seas, cruising can be deadly.
Read More »The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Locked-Room Mystery with a Twist
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a 40-year-old mystery with a compelling twist.
Read More »Book Review: The Feng Shui Detective Goes West by Nury Vittachi
Readers will enjoy the colorful settings and deftly drawn characters as feng shui master and detective CF Wong solves another case and helps to divert a disaster or two.
Read More »Book Review: Redemption Day by Steve O’Brian
Steve O’Brien compelling conveys the danger of homeland terror - taking a group from our own foundations, and giving it a face we may see in any area of the country.
Read More »An Interview With Charles Ardai, Editor of Hard Case Crime, About Donald Westlake’s The Comedy Is Finished
An interview about a "new" book by the late Donald Westlake, as well as an excerpt of it.
Read More »My Interview With Josh Bazell About His New Novel Wild Thing
Josh Bazell, the author of the funniest, strangest novel I've read in years, talks about his sequel.
Read More »Book Review: Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles (Professor Moriarty Novels) by Kim Newman
We all know Sherlock Holmes' side of the story; this is Moriarty's darker version of events.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: Agatha Christie’s Poirot – Series 1
Agatha Christie's Poirot is now on Blu-ray and the dapper little detective never looked better.
Read More »An Interview With Author Edna Buchanan About Her New Novel, A Dark And Lonely Place
Edna Buchanan talks about the crime reporting that made her famous and her latest novel.
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