Judges 16. That’s all a man needs to know. The long-awaited trial begins midway through the episode, and it is oddly anticlimactic. We’ve seen hints of strife and trial by media—a Nancy Grace lookalike eviscerates Naz whenever there’s a TV in the shot; his brother vandalizes the school because he’s getting bullied with no recourse;…
My relationship to one of Manhattan's most strangely haunted houses is a complex one that goes back to my first year in New York City, eleven years ago. I was on a meandering, wandering research quest, noting the locations of some of New York's most renowned haunted places as background for one of my many…
You got some secrets in you. And some rage. I like it. The defense attorney has been pilloried since the dawn of the court system. The advocate of the Devil. And today, we still disrespect them as if their job is to keep criminals free instead of providing citizens accused of a crime with their…
If you’re not familiar with ThrillerFest, it’s the official convention of the International Thriller Writers, held every July in New York City at the Grand Hyatt hotel. The basic convention is two days, Friday and Saturday, with the Thriller Awards banquet held Saturday evening. But, there’s a lot more if you include CraftFest, Master CraftFest,…
Richard Price is probably more famous for his writing on The Wire than his sprawling crime novels, but they both deliver the same incredibly detailed vision of how crimes occur and how a city deals with them from every angle. The eight-episode miniseries The Night Of, which airs officially on HBO beginning July 10th, is…
Elijah (“Lije”) Baley is a New York City homicide detective, three thousand years in the future. His world is an overpopulated Earth, with eight billion people living in massive, layered complexes—caves of steel—enclosed by mammoth domes. Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York have grown to the point where they are almost touching. Humans no longer…
Four decades after Typhoid Mary went to her grave, five curious graduate students struggle to escape alive from the abandoned island that once imprisoned her. Contagion doesn’t die. It just waits. For this week only, get the ebook of The Prisoner of Hell Gate by Dana I. Wolff for only $2.99! In the Hell Gate section…
The Defense by Steve Cavanagh follows Eddie Flynn, a former con artist-turned-lawyer that finds out that the two aren't all that different (Available May 3, 2016). Former con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn gave up the law a year ago after a disastrous case, and he vowed never to step foot in a courtroom again.…
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 the FBI to see who…
Billy Joel said it best: “I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints/the sinners are much more fun.” For me, the same is true for protagonists. Although they’re called “antiheroes,” I don’t see them that way. They are simply flawed people, and in that way, much more realistic and much more like…
