According to Amazon, Collin Armstrong has worked in the entertainment industry for over a decade, developing, writing, and producing materia...

After reading many of Elmore Leonard's early crime-fiction novels, like The Big Bounce (1969) and Mr. Majestyk (1974), I was anxious ...

Welcome to my newest collaboration with Nick at The Book Graveyard . On this episode, we continue our "Guide to Gothics" discussio...

Lawrence Block began a series of hitman novels in 1998 with Hit Man , the first of six books featuring John Keller , a lonely assassin livi...

Heller with a Gun was just Louis L'Amour's  11th novel. It was originally published in April 1955 by Fawcett Gold Medal (#478) wit...

William Ross , using the name Marilyn Ross, authored 33 paperbacks that serve as television tie-ins to the supernatural soap opera Dark Shad...

Andrew Pyper (1968-2025) received a B.A. And M.A. in English Literature from McGill University and earned a law degree from the University o...

There is a scene near the end of Cry for the Strangers in which John Saul describes his book perfectly. One character is saying to the othe...

The fourth Spenser novel, Promised Land , was a real turning point in the series. The book, authored by Robert B. Parker , was published in...

Freida McFadden (a pseudonym for a medical doctor) is a prolific, sharp-eyed writer with a gift for pacing and psychological pressure. Her ...

L. Sprague de Camp collaborated with Lin Carter and Bjorn Nybert to author several Conan stories. However, he only attempted one solo Co...

It has taken me about six years to revisit Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994). My last experience with him, 1970s Monster From Out of Time , was...

Oklahoma native Margaret Goff Clark (1913-2003) authored over 200 short stories, 35 one-act plays, and 24 novels, including fiction and biog...

Freida McFadden (a pseudonym whose real name is undisclosed) is one of the most prolific thriller writers working today. A practicing physi...

In terms of the early Nick Carter: Killmaster novels, I enjoyed the debut, Run, Spy, Run , and the series's third installment, Checkmat...

In this episode, I'm talking with Nick from The Book Graveyard and Chris from Liminal Spaces about a 1969 paperback titled To the Dark...

Ben Winters (b. 1976) is a New York Times bestselling author who won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his 2012 novel T...

There were a number of middle school horror and thriller paperbacks in the 1980s and 1990s. I' 've reviewed a few of them here on P...

Ron Faust (1936-2011) worked in the newspaper industry in Key West, Colorado Springs, and San Diego. He elected to play professional basebal...

S. Craig Zahler is a terrific independent screenwriter and an accomplished novelist. His 2014 violent crime novel, Mean Business on North G...