The Pretender: My Life Undercover for the FBI by Marc Ruskin is the definitive narrative of undercover ops―the procedures, the successes, the failures—and the changes in the culture of the new-era FBI. Of all the tools available to law enforcement, the living, breathing undercover operative remains the gold standard. This is true in TV… Read more
Collecting the Dead by Spencer Kope is a debut novel that introduces Magnus “Steps” Craig, a member of the FBI's Special Tracking Unit (Available June 28, 2016). Magnus “Steps” Craig is part of the elite three-man Special Tracking Unit of the FBI. Called in on special cases where his skills are… Read more
One night, after working on a murder mystery that was going nowhere, I toyed with the idea of starting an espionage thriller series. Along with tossing around possible locations and when the action would take place, I had to come up with realistic characters. Who would be the protagonist? Naturally,… Read more
Sometimes, real life is scarier and stranger than fiction—find out how by registering to win these 8 true crime tales for True Crime Thursday, here at CrimeHQ! Click here to enter for a chance to win! This is NOT a Comments Sweepstakes. You must click the link above to enter…. Read more
Night Life by David C. Taylor is the 1st Michael Cassidy novel. It is nominated for the Edgar Award for “Best Novel.” The Cold War is heating up. Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for Communists in America. The newly formed CIA is fighting a turf battle with… Read more
A Voice from the Field by Neal Griffin is a gripping thriller about human trafficking, following Detective Tia Suarez, who will stop at nothing to rescue the woman she saw bound and gagged in the back of a van and take down the group responsible (Available February 2, 2016). Gunther… Read more
No Good Deed by Allison Brennan is the 10th mystery featuring FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid (available November 3, 2015). Lucy Kincaid understands the dangers of corruption. As an FBI agent, she has witnessed some very bad deeds committed by seemingly good people. That's why she's glad to see corrupt DEA… Read more
Here we are, fannibalizing together a last time, much like Hannibal and Will in the blood-soaked (probably) series finale “The Wrath of the Lamb.” There was some returning to the inspiration of the source material for this episode, and oddly enough, because of times when the show departed, those twists… Read more
Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) envisions killing his wife and so consults the second-deadliest therapist in Baltimore. Supposing this is only his dragonic killer-empathy in overdrive, nonetheless, I didn't want to believe he'd seek the advice of Dr. Bedelia DuMaurier (Gillian Anderson) in her dispensary of smug. The two spar over… Read more
The Ripper Gene is the debut thriller by Michael Ransom about a neuroscientist-turned-FBI profiler who's discovered a genetic signature that produces psychopaths (available August 18, 2015). Dr. Lucas Madden is a neuroscientist-turned-FBI profiler who first gained global recognition for cloning the ripper gene and showing its dysfunction in the brains… Read more
