Jeffrey Westhoff: Saluting my influences

At the front of my book, a young adult spy novel called The Boy Who Knew Too Much, you will find these words: “The book is dedicated to the three authors who most directly inspired it: Robert Louis Stevenson, Elleston Trevor (who wrote the masterful Quiller novels...

NEW YORKED By Rob Hart

NEW YORKED Rob Hart June 2015 Polis Books   Like the city it’s named for, Rob Hart’s debut novel NEW YORKED can be seen as many things to many people. Visiting the city for the first time, a tourist may be overcome with anxiety or fear with the possibility of...

James Ellroy: LAPD '53 Reviewed

LAPD ‘53 James Ellroy with Glynn Martin 2015 Abrams Image     When I think James Ellroy I think 1950s hardboiled edgy fiction and attitudes and mostly California. So a book titled LAPD 53? Hell yes I’m interested. This is non-fiction, a photo book plus....

EENY MEENY by MJ Arlidge Reviewed

EENY MEENY Two people. One gun. A message that says they are trapped until one of them is dead. They always say they'll stick together. But that's before two weeks of starvation and thirst set in. Suddenly the clock starts ticking and only one person will leave alive....

An Interview with Nelson DeMille

RADIANT ANGEL by Nelson DeMille is the 7th novel in the John Corey series. Mr. DeMille has been writing political thrillers for approximately thirty-five years, but like a fine wine he has gotten better with age. With this new novel he has pivoted from the antagonists...