Beat to a Pulp: Hardboiled edited by David Cranmer and Scott D Parker “Hardboiled” fiction has been popular since the post WW2 era. Every since returning GI’s started coming home after the Good War, there…
Pulp Ink edited by Nigel Bird and Chris Rhatigan It may be that the anthology format will be the best one for e-publishing. At least with the newer generation of pulp writers, this seems to…
Mystery Girl by David Gordon (New Harvest, 2013) Mystery Girl by David Gordon is a book that made me angry. Why? Because it had to end. Honestly, I couldn’t put it down. It’s…
An Easy Thing is the first book I’ve read by Mexican P.I. novelist Paco Tabio. Tabio’s investigator is Hector Belascororan Shayne, a former engineer and resident of Mexico’s capital city. He shares an office with a sewage expert, a plumber, and a chronically unemployed upholsterer.
OUTSOURCED by Dave Zeltserman (2010, Kindle Books) The cover for Outsourced by Dave Zeltserman (Kindle Books) is deceptive. At first glance It appears to be a comedic novel. Or one filled with black humor in the…
These short stories by Andrew Bliss are worth the afternoon it will take to read them. Dark and amusing, they are all set in present day London. Which ties it into a specific locale, but can make reading them difficult for the *ahem* Thames challenged. Also illustrated with some wicked photographs.
The Top Suspense Group has unleashed on the public their latest anthology. In a collection which would do Jim Thompson proud, this is a hard boiled collection for fans of the genre.
38 stories were selected for this anthology to promote literacy (Why not 33 and a 1/3? But I digress….). The only stipulation was that each story, from some of the best new crime writers, had to be based around a classic song title.
