A DROP OF THE HARD STUFF is the 17th installment of Lawrence Block’s legendary series focused on “favor do-er” and New York denizen Matthew Scudder.Like many of us, I’ve known Scudder for a long time. We first met him in THE SINS OF THE FATHERS, originally published...
THE TERROR OF LIVING, Urban Waite’s first novel, can reasonably be described as a work of art.THE TERROR OF LIVING is set in Washington State, and is the story of several good men…and one who is truly evil, demented on the level we haven’t seen since Dr. Lechter...
Some newspaper reporters should stick to writing for dailies. Some newspaper reporters should write books. Brad Parks falls firmly in the latter category.Parks was a newspaper reporter for quite some time, and he was good at it. In his fiction writing, he has been...
Some stories require a willing suspension of disbelief. Others, like Daniel Palmer’s DELIRIOUS, grab you by the throat and give you no choice but to be immersed. They make you look over your shoulder and under your bed…and it’s glorious.DELIRIOUS isn’t really the kind...
I was not going to read THE CYPRESS HOUSE because when I read the “coming attractions” brief description, it said something about supernatural, and that turned me right off. Supernatural just is not my cup of tea. Or coffee.Having now read it, I understand why the...
Notes on book reviews: I’m going to forgo synopses in these because there are more than enough of them out there, and others are more adept at writing them than I could ever hope to be.It’s unlikely I’ll ever be asked to write a blurb for a book cover, but I’m...
