Mysteries, spy fiction, thrillers, true crime, and noir.
Photo Credit: Netflix Tudum “It’s meticulous, it’s complicated, it’s diabolical,” says crime kingpin Nicky Fisher (Clancy Brown) to wanted fugitive David Burroughs (Sam…
I saw my first slasher movie when I was about nine years old, at a school friend’s birthday party.
Over the past several years, I’ve had similar conversations about my Shamus Award-nominated Andy Hayes private eye series at numerous book festivals.
When you’ve served as a Ranger and Green Beret, trained as a sniper, and spent fourteen years as an investigative journalist, you have a full magazine of material from which to…
CHAPTER TWO R I V E R 10:42 a.m. RIVER REYNOLDS HAD never seen water so black. From the sun deck of the yacht, the Atlantic Ocean looked like Onyx Ink, the newest color from her…
‘He’s gaslighting you,’ is surely a phrase we’ve all heard countless times in recent years.
“Trains are relentless things, aren’t they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but trains go on just the same.”— The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie Crime…
Gregg Olsen’s new book, By the River’s Edge (Thomas & Mercer), chronicles the killings of Yolanda Sapp, Nickie Lowe, and Kathy Brisbois, and a decades-long hunt for a serial…
Vanished…without a trace. It is both a powerful motif in fiction and a fascination seemingly hardwired into the human psyche.
I’ll confess: I’ve used weather as a plot device more times than I care to admit.