10 Stories That Have Stuck
Last year, The Life Sentence—a fine and then still relatively new website devoted to all things mystery—asked me to contribute […]
Review
Washington Post Review: Matthew Quirk’s Cold Barrel Zero
The Washington Post published my review of Matthew Quirk’s new thriller Cold Barrel Zero. The novel is swiftly paced and
Washington Post Review: Supernotes
Supernotes by Agent Kasper and Luigi Carletti treads too uncertain a line between its “Thriller” subtitle and its “Based on
Two New at Washington Independent Review of Books
The Washington Independent Review of Books has recently featured two articles by me—the first a column on “writing things” I’m
New Mystery Scene
I’m so pleased to have two articles in the new issue of Mystery Scene, which arrived in my own mailbox
Review: The Lost Detective
I’ve mentioned before that we seem to be in another Dashiell Hammett renaissance: new volumes gathering the Hammett’s own work
Washington Post Review: Empire of Deception
Dean Jobb’s Empire of Deception promised—and delivered—a rollicking tale of master swindler Leo Koretz, a high society con man in