You may remember me. Think back. The summer of 1990. I know that’s a while ago, but the wire services picked up the story and I was in every newspaper in the country… I stayed in the news for two or three days, but even when the cameras and the reporters moved on to…
The Barry Awards, which began in 1997, are presented at the annual Bouchercon World Mystery Convention. Voted on by the readers of Deadly Pleasures, the award is named in honor of Barry Gardner, a well-known fan reviewer and American critic. This year's awards will be held on September 6, 2018, at the St. Petersburg Bouchercon…
The Barry Awards, which began in 1997, are presented at the annual Bouchercon World Mystery Convention. Voted on by the readers of Deadly Pleasures, the award is named in honor of Barry Gardner, a well-known fan reviewer and American critic.
Steve Hamilton’s latest, Let It Burn, drives series character Alex McKnight off Michigan’s UP (Upper Peninsula) and into Detroit. The city Alex deserted years ago is now half-empty, littered with vacant lots and empty buildings, yet retains a hold on him. The former cop returns there after hearing that Darryl King, a young man he…
Mystery conventions (aka conferences) can be a great way to meet some of your favorite authors and to find kindred crime fiction friends. There are so many different fan conventions to choose from, ranging from those that focus on traditional mysteries and cozies (Malice Domestic) to thrillers (ThrillerFest), up to the big daddy of them…
Die a Stranger is Steve Hamilton’s newest Alex McKnight novel, and it’s thrilling. The book opens with a plane secretly landing on a remote, abandoned air strip in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and a drug trafficking deal gone wrong. Below is my very first design for the cover. Until writing this, I had not realized how…
Die a Stranger is the 9th novel in the Alex McKnight series about a former Detroit cop looking for peace in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (available July 3, 2012). Late one night, a plane lands on a deserted airstrip. Five dead bodies are found there the next morning. And now Vinnie LeBlanc is missing.…
What is that odd, blurry row of lucite gravestones, you ask? They’re beautifull etched Anthony Awards, only my phone is not ideal for photos, and I forgot to bring a decent camera. Therefore, these on-scene pictures are tragically unable to capture the splendor of several hundred people quaffing coffee and scarfing eggs. (Only half of…
On a frozen January night, a young man loops one end of a long rope over the branch of a tree. The other end he ties around his neck. A snowmobiler will find him thirty-six hours later, his lifeless eyes staring out at the endless cold water of Lake Superior. It happens in a lonely corner of the…
As I took inventory of what I'd been reading recently, I realized I've been reading a lot of short stories, both as single-serve and in collections. In fact, as I thought about it, I realized it seems as if I've being seeing more crime fiction shorts lately than I can remember seeing in quite some…
