Nominees for 2016 Anthony Awards

by | Jun 10, 2016 | Awards, Features

  BEST NOVEL Night Tremors – Matt Coyle [Oceanview] The Killing Kind – Chris Holm [Mulholland] The Child Garden – Catriona McPherson [Midnight Ink] The Nature of the Beast – Louise Penny [Minotaur/Sphere] What You See – Hank...

Longlist for 2016 Ngaio Marsh Award

by | Jun 10, 2016 | Awards

The longlist has been announced for the 2016 Ngaio Marsh Award. So without further ado: Inside the black horse Ray Berard (Mary Egan Publishing) Made to kill Adam Christopher (Titan Books) Trust no one Paul Cleave (Upstart Press) Starlight Peninsula Charlotte Grimshaw...

From Memoir to Novel

by | Jun 10, 2016 | Features

Shadow War: A Tom Locke Novel began as a memoir and ended a novel.  Before I became a novelist, I was many things. Paratrooper. Professor. Private warrior. Some might say mercenary. I spent years in Africa raising small armies, decommissioning warlords, transacting...

JACK REACHER: First photos from NEVER GO BACK

by | Jun 9, 2016 | Books

People magazine has offered up the first two photos from NEVER GO BACK, the second film featuring Tom Cruise as Lee Child’s Jack Reacher. NGB is based on the 18th novel in the Jack Reacher series. Joining him this time around is Cobie Smulders (HOW I MET YOUR...

YOUNG AMERICANS by Josh Stallings

by | Jun 9, 2016 | Reviews

YOUNG AMERICANS Josh Stallings 2015 Heist Publishing I remember way back in 2002, reading a review of the film Narc, there was a line that described Jason Patric’s character I’ve always remembered. It said he looked like he crawled out from under a pile of...