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J.B. Stevens

J.B. Stevens lives in the southeastern United States with his wife and daughter. He is a crime fiction writer, memoirist, and book reviewer. He won Mystery Tribune’s inaugural micro fiction contest. His work has been published by Thriller Magazine, Out of the Gutter’s Flash Fiction Offensive, Close To The Bone, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Story and Grit, Punk Noir Magazine, and many others. He can be found online at jb-stevens.com and on Twitter @iamjbstevens.

Q&A with Carter Wilson, author of The New Neighbor

By J.B. Stevens

April 19, 2022

Carter Wilson is a USA Today best-selling thriller author and all-around interesting guy. He grew up out west, went to school back east, and now lives in Colorado. He started writing in 2003 and his first novel, Final Crossing, was published in 2012. His most recent work, The New Neighbor, comes out on April 12th from Source Books/Poison…

Book Review: Shadows Reel by C. J. Box

By J.B. Stevens

March 8, 2022

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   The falcon cannot hear the falconer;   Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;   Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.   William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”, featured in the opening of Shadows Reel Shadows Reel is the twenty-second Joe Pickett mystery/thriller novel from C.J.…

Book Review: Twentymile by C. Matthew Smith

By J.B. Stevens

November 18, 2021

“The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.” —Theodore Roosevelt   Twentymile is a November 19th, 2021, release from Latah Books, and was written by C. Matthew Smith. The novel is a thriller with a…

Q&A with Mark Westmoreland, Author of A Violent Gospel

By J.B. Stevens

September 24, 2021

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Mark Westmoreland. He is a talented up-and-coming noir author. His debut book, A Violent Gospel, is available now from Shotgun Honey Books. About A Violent Gospel, the author writes: “The book is about two brothers, Mack and Marshall Dooley, who steal money from a snake-handling Pentecostal cult…

Q&A with Tori Eldridge, Author of The Ninja Betrayed

By J.B. Stevens

September 15, 2021

Tori Eldridge is the author of The Ninja Daughter, The Ninja’s Blade, and The Ninja Betrayed (a 9/14/2021 release from Polis Books, $16.95). Tori’s been nominated for the Anthony, Lefty, and Macavity awards. She was also a film and stage performer. Tori was kind enough to speak with me about her work.   Q: Hello…

Q&A with Megan Collins, author of The Family Plot

By J.B. Stevens

August 16, 2021

Hello crime-fiction readers. Recently, I did an email-based Q & A with Megan Collins. Ms. Collins is the author of The Family Plot—an August release through Atria Books. The Family Plot is already generating great buzz. Andrea Bartz says the work is “Dark, claustrophobic, and beautifully written with Collins’s signature musical prose.” As a reader,…

Book Review: Godspeed by Nickolas Butler

By J.B. Stevens

July 23, 2021

Jackson, Wyoming is a town. Jackson Hole, Wyoming is a valley. I didn’t know that—I thought it was all “Jackson Hole”. That’s the problem with a place becoming famous, it pushes reality aside.  The town of Jackson has, somehow, become an afterthought within the town of Jackson. This townie/outsider dynamic is the space Nickolas Butler…

Book Review: Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby

By J.B. Stevens

July 1, 2021

Razorblade Tears is the newest book by rising super-star S.A. Cosby. It comes out in hardcover on July 6th, 2021. It is selling for $27 from Flatiron books. The review-world is going crazy for the novel, as shown by the following praise: “A powerful blend of pulsing action, sensitive and subtle character interaction, and uncompromising…

Q&A with Chris Offutt, Author of The Killing Hills

By J.B. Stevens

June 14, 2021

I recently had the good fortune to do a short question and answer with Chris Offutt. Chris is a widely accomplished author across numerous formats—TV, comics, memoir, and fiction. He is a highly-skilled writer, and someone I personally look up to. As a fan, I was delighted to speak with him. His new novel The…

Book Review: City on the Edge by David Swinson

By J.B. Stevens

May 21, 2021

“In Beirut, death’s unremitting light shines bright for all to see, brighter than the Mediterranean sun, brighter than the night’s Russian missiles, brighter than a baby’s smile.” ―Rabih Alameddine, I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters City on the Edge, to be released by Mulholland Books on May 25th, 2021, is the latest from…

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