The Rap Sheet Blog

August 18, 2020

Because I won’t have much on the blog until Thursday, let’s talk about someone else’s blog today. I’m sure some of you have read The Rap Sheet. J. Kingston Pierce has been writing the spin-off from January Magazine almost as long as I’ve...

A Day Off

August 17, 2020

Funny to say I’ve been on vacation this past week, but have nothing to post on the blog today. I do have an idea for tomorrow, and I need to work on it. I’m actually on deadline, and I’ve read eight books in the last week. But, I reviewed one here,...

Dirty Old Town by Gabriel Valjan

August 16, 2020

Raymond Chandler’s Marlowe is the model for how many private investigators? He defines that hero in The Simple Art of Murder. “He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of...

Have You Heard? Foreign Eclairs by Julie Hyzy

August 15, 2020

Between deadlines for a journal and life, I haven’t had time to finish the next book I’m reviewing here. But, Sandie Herron has a review of an audiobook I can share,  Foreign Eclairs by Julie Hyzy. As always, thank you, Sandie. Foreign Éclairs ...

Winners and a “Cops” Giveaway

August 14, 2020

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Please See Us will go to Sandy G. from North Plainfield, NJ, and The Girl Beneath the Sea goes to Dianne C. of Elk Grove Village, IL. The books will go out in the mail today. This week, I’m giving away three...