Whether the world is at stake or it’s just another day in Chinatown, Jake, these stories are about dark deeds, suspense, and the adrenaline rush.
Thrillers and Noir
June 17 2013
The Summer of Dead Toys by Antonio Hill is a dark, gritty police procedural set in Barcelona (available...
June 17 2013
Crime of Privilege by Walter Walker is a legal thriller pitting a schlub against the rich and powerful...
June 16 2013
Tami Hoag's The 9th Girl is a police procedural and thriller featuring Detectives Sam Kovac and...
June 15 2013
Let’s face it. When you think of sociable people, the fictional private eye is not the person...
June 15 2013
Peruvian mummies refuse to play dead. In fact, despite their now empty craniums and lifeblood that...
June 14 2013
In honor of Father's Day this weekend, we wanted to celebrate 10 of our favorite dads of TV crime....
June 12 2013
There are those who expect the The Fast & the Furious franchise to run out of gas after the first...
June 12 2013
Yesterday in Part I we looked at Robert Mitchum’s film career from the 1940s to the 1960s.
The...
June 11 2013
Robert Mitchum is the King of Film Noir. Not only was he one of the great leading men (starring...
June 11 2013
Another Little Piece by Kate Karyus Quinn is a dark young adult paranormal thriller (available June...
June 10 2013
While you might not have been at Book Expo America, Criminal Element has you covered. BEA is a great...
June 9 2013
This show might just be the crime genre's answer to Mad Men. Starz's Magic City follows...
June 7 2013
Baseball season is well under way, so it’s time to start reading about fictional murder...
June 7 2013
A subway train roars through the night. Sweaty and surly, the crowded passengers inside avoid eye...
June 5 2013
From its opening sentence, Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz throws you off balance:
I’ll...
June 5 2013
“I made him an offer he couldn’t refuse,” Don Corleone murmurs like a king ordering...
June 5 2013
“Real tough guys don't need guns, they just need a positive, can-do attitude.”
This...
June 4 2013
The Doll by Taylor Stevens is the third Vanessa Michael Munroe thriller (available June 4, 2013).
Haunted...
June 1 2013
• The state of New York is selling a 4-compartment morgue cooler from a...
June 1 2013
“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!”
I know more of...
May 31 2013
Set in a small-town amusement park in North Carolina in 1973, Joyland by Stephen King is a noir thriller...
May 30 2013
Francesca Pitcher of the UK’s North Star Cakes is a very talented sculptor and baker, but more...
May 29 2013
Let us establish here and now the Ted de Corsia Rule: Any movie with Ted de Corsia is worth watching....
May 29 2013
Evil Dead, Halloween, My Bloody Valentine, Alien...all kinds of movies outside the realm of the kid-oriented...
May 24 2013
There’s a lot of justifiable worry over the government’s use of drones in civilian populations,...
May 22 2013
Wounded Prey by Sean Lynch is the first Detectives Farrell and Kearns thriller (available May 28,...
May 22 2013
Most book clubs start off well, but soon devolve into wine, cheese, and gossip. Not that we have anything...
May 21 2013
It’s nighttime in Pittsburgh. Tom-Cruise-as-Jack-Reacher has just beaten the tar out of...
May 20 2013
Graveland by Alan Glynn is a thriller set in the world of Wall Street high finance (available May...
May 19 2013
The Caretaker by A.X. Ahmad is a debut thriller involving scandal, political corruption, and men with...
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