NTN: Kerry Wilkinson interviewed
By day Kerry Wilkinson is a sports journalist, but in his spare time he decided to challenge himself and write a crime novel. What he came up with was Locked In, the first Jessica Daniel novel. Rather than send it off to agents and publishers,…
Otto Penzler goes digital
Crime fiction lovers in New York City have long benefited from the existence of Otto Penzler’s store The Mysterious Bookshop, while readers have enjoyed books he’s published under the Mysterious Publishing imprint since 1975. Now fans of the genre from around the world will be…
Short stories by Lawrence Block
Exclusive news — Today the New York-based author Lawrence Block dropped us a line to let us know about a new book of short stories he’s launching early in October. The Night and the Music collects together nine stories that have appeared in previous works,…
9th Judgement
Written by James Patterson with Maxine Paetro — Ninth in the Women’s Murder Club series, this book is a real page turner with short punchy chapters which sustain a tense narrative through to the end. Although the novel is part of a series it works well…
Dust Devils
Written by Roger Smith — There’s something distasteful on nearly every page of this book as South African author Roger Smith paints the rainbow nation in blood, excrement and several other bodily fluids. Yet he does it in a manner that, while continually disturbing, also…