The Power of Cats and Dogs

Growing up I was never a cat or dog person. Until one day in the summer of 1995 when I was an ATF Supervisor assigned to Chicago. A baby kitten could be heard crying under our front porch where we lived in suburban Hinsdale. One look at this little guy’s face and it...

LISA UNGER on IN THE BLOOD

Simon & Schuster author Lisa Unger talks about IN THE BLOOD, her upcoming book. Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can’t quite recall. About to...

Erica Ruth’s Gift Guide

These are a few of my favorite things this year, and just may end up being the favorite thing of that crime-fiction lover on your holiday gift list: CRASHED by Timothy Hallinan This is the first in the Junior Bender series, which is quickly followed by LITTLE ELVISES...

SILENT CITY by Alex Segura

SILENT CITY Codorus Press October 2013 Mood is everything in a novel. Music sounds richer. Colors seem deeper. Memories take you back to specific times and places; some happy, most are sad. Alex Segura nails the mood his first time out with his debut novel, SILENT...

2013 Specsavers National Book Award winners

The 2013 Specsavers National Book Award winners were announced, earlier this week,  at London’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year: An Officer and a Spy, by Robert Harris (Cornerstone) Other nominees: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy...