Month: April 2018

The World of Small-Town Policing I’m a rabid fan of crime fiction, especially hard-boiled procedurals. Back in the ’70s, I cut my literary teeth on Joe Wambaugh and Elmore Leonard.  These days my favorites include […]

Don’t Let The Palm Trees Fool You Ten of the best Hollywood Crime Novels Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard Take a Miami wise guy and drop him into Hollywood development hell. Not only does Chili […]

Pistols and Petticoats Eight Crime-Fighting Female Protagonists of the Old West When it comes to crime fighters in the Wild West of yore, I’ll bet you a dollar to a dime the image that most […]

James Crumley in Print (and Now on Screen?) The recent rumors that Mel Gibson is looking to adapt the 1983 novel Dancing Bear by James Crumley for television is exciting news. Gibson, the force behind 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge, […]

Surprise Endings in Great Crime Novels Why didn’t I think of these? I doubt I’m the only writer who opens a new book with trepidation and winces as I see a plot that I wish […]

John Hart’s Top Ten Reads As a novelist, one of the great ironies and frustrations of life is that I am rarely able to read as much as I’d like. Strange, I know, but there’s […]

Top 10 Most Mysterious Settings in Britain The island of Britain is bursting with beautiful, enigmatic, and sometimes downright mystical sites. This not only makes the country an excellent tourist destination but also the perfect […]