Month: November 2016

Ten Mysterious Facts Americans Need To Know About America’s Largest Ancient City We are W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear, archaeologists and anthropologists by academic training and professional inclination. That we are New York Times and […]

The Top 5 Literary Investigators Everyone Should Know As a prolific writer of more than fifty novels, I’ve been inspired by many mystery writers, from Georges Simenon to Agatha Christie, who’ve created indelible detectives that […]

Why Did The Postman Ring Twice, and Why It’s Best to Miss Appointments in Samarra: James M. Cain and John O’Hara’s Rendezvous With Fate “Tragedy is the force of circumstances driving the protagonist to the […]

Top 10 Best Western Mysteries There are few things more American than a good Western novel. My favorite kind of Western is one that not only captures the essence of the West, but one that […]

Crime Fiction in the Emerald Isle Irish crime fiction has seen remarkable growth over the last decade, with many describing it as the Golden Age of crime fiction writing. The reasons for the rise are […]

Book Review: Indefensible: The Missing Truth About Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer by Michael Griesbach New York: Kensington, 2016. $26.00 The Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer (as of this writing unseen by me) […]

The Top Ten Cozy Mysteries… Choosing the Top Ten of anything at my age is a tough assignment. Especially when it comes to books, any kind of books, let alone so-called “cozy” mysteries. I started […]

A Cozy Author Goes Dark: Ten Dark Mystery Favorites As a writer of British “cozies” (I’m never going to reconcile myself to that label, especially when it’s spelled that way), I have quite a strong […]