I've loved crime/detective/thriller fiction ever since picking up and reading And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie way back in my middle school days. This continues today. I thought I'd share my top five favorite characters which make you think, sit on the edge of your seat and figure out who done it. You …
The Dead Man's Flood is now available in ebook and on Kindle Unlimited for free. If you love old time crime noir, then this story is for you. In the rain-drenched streets of 1937 Louisville, Kentucky, a city drowning in the Great Flood, private investigator Charlie Parker is a man with debts to repay and …
When Kentucky Monthly Magazine published my short story, Leaves of Departure, in 1998, they asked me if I was working on anything else and I told them I was working on my first detective novel. It was an idea which floated around in my head for years. I grew up loving the Rockford Files, Columbo …
Many authors ask me what should and should not be in a contract when offered by a small press. It just so happens I know a guy who is both a lawyer and an author in Stuart Thaman. I asked Stuart to put together a list on what you should be watching for and he …
I'm loving all the new crime noir series around the streaming verse and this is one of the better ones. The second season of Perry Mason continues to follow the story of the detective turned lawyer, played by Matthew Rhys, as he navigates the complex world of law and crime in 1930s Los Angeles. This …
THE ROCKFORD FILES -- Pictured: James Garner as Jim Rockford -- (Photo by: Fred Sabine/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank) The 1970s were a golden age for television, especially for the detective genre and I was a regular viewer. Among the many classic shows of that era, five were my favorites: The Rockford Files, Mannix, Barnaby Jones, Cannon, …
My all-time favorite poem is Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost. As part of a writing exercise for the Creative Writers Workshop, I turned the poem into a short story. Here are both for your reading pleasure, now available on Amazon, in Ode to a Snowy Evening.
I finished watching The Night Agent last night and my review of the Netflix show is complicated. Not so much the show, as my review. The setup: Low-level FBI agent Peter Sutherland works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings - until the night it does, propelling him into …
It was USA Today bestselling novelist, Jamie Livingston Dierks, who first described my Victor McCain series as paranormal crime noir. I wasn't quite sure what she meant. While I had seen the movies the Maltese Falcon and the Big Sleep, I'd not read any crime noir novels. Then I picked up a copy of I, …
"Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves" is a movie that brings to life the world of fantasy role-playing games. Directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, the movie is the latest adaptation of the popular game franchise, "Dungeons and Dragons." The film follows a group of adventurers as they embark on a quest to …
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