Recently, I had the honor of speaking with Peter Farris. Peter is a critically acclaimed crime fiction author and resident of North Georgia (scientifically proven to be the greatest region in the entire universe). He is a French literary juggernaut and is due to break out here in the United States. Peter’s latest release, The…
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…
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.…
J. B. Stevens’s debut crime and military fiction collection, A Therapeutic Death (Shotgun Honey, out February 4, 2022), lets the reader know right up front: it’s going to get dark. You see it in the cover design, reminiscent of some late ‘70s or early ‘80s pulp film (Sharky’s Machine, anyone?), and again in the book’s…
“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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
