by Elise Cooper | Jul 16, 2025 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
Down To The Bone Caitlin Rother Kensington Pub June 24th, 2025 Down to the Bone by Caitlin Rother just came out, but the real-life case on which it’s based also gained nationwide attention again recently due to parallels to the Bosch Legacy Season 3 episodes,...
by Jamie Day | Jul 15, 2025 | Features, Pet Spotlight
Let me take you back in time. It’s 2009, I now have a literary agent, and my dream of becoming a published author feels within reach. I spent ten years honing my craft, and finally had a completed book that an agent loved, and was ready to shop (industry speak for...
by Elise Cooper | Jul 11, 2025 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
Rage Kate Burkholder book 17 Linda Castillo Minotaur Books July 8th, 2025 Rage by Linda Castillo has a riveting plot. Like a fine wine, she only gets better with each story. Kate Burkholder is a unique character that readers will always root for. The...
by Rob Starr MBE | Jul 10, 2025 | Behind the Book, Features
Black Gold by Rob Starr MBE is published by Just Once Publishing and is available to buy now. Unlike many who fear starting things, and avoid change, I find everything new exciting, and I love nothing better than change. In fact every door that has ever slammed...
by Daniel Aubrey | Jul 7, 2025 | Behind the Book, Features
I suffer from a stunning lack of imagination. Seems a strange thing for someone who comes up with some dark storylines to say, but it’s true. The title of my first novel, Dark Island, came from a beer of the same name from the Orkney Brewery. The crime in that book...
by Sarah Reida | Jul 7, 2025 | Books, Features, Reviews
It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest Poisoned Pen Press July 22, 2025 Cherie Priest’s It Was Her House First has all the bones for a great ghost story. An old house with a dark past meets a grieving sister who simply wants to renovate the place. The fate of...
by Elise Cooper | Jul 6, 2025 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
Agents of Change Christina Hillsberg Kensington Pub June 24th, 2025 Agents of Change by Christina Hillsberg reads like an espionage thriller. Hillsberg, a former CIA intelligence officer, uses her insider knowledge to write a nonfiction book about US patriots working...
by Erin Mitchell | Jul 4, 2025 | Awards, Features
The 2025 winners of the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced. Created in 1955, the world-famous CWA Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre and have been synonymous...
by Elise Cooper | Jul 3, 2025 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
Rockets’ Red Glare Sage Mendiluze book 1 William Webster and Dick Lochte Blackstone Pub May 2025 Rockets’ Red Glare by William Webster and Dick Lochte combines adventure, action, and the settings of the National Forests, Parks, and Wyoming’s Wind River Indian...
by Peter Handel | Jul 1, 2025 | Books, Reviews
Peter Swanson is a shifty guy. Readers familiar with any of his previous eleven novels (and one novella), know that Swanson spins his already twisted, tangled characters like clothes in a demented dryer. The deceitful men and women who inhabit his realm of betrayal...
