By Stephen Graham Jones Growing Up Dead in Texas took me thirteen weeks to write. My first novel took me …Read the Rest
Author Archive
What Sparks a Mystery? by Victoria Houston
Every time I speak to an audience about the process of writing a mystery, the question is always the same: …Read the Rest
The Lady Speaks: Crime writer Sara Paretsky discusses her seminal sleuth
by Jim Napier From Kansas farm girl to NY Times Bestseller list: Sara Paretsky published her first mystery, Indemnity Only, …Read the Rest
Fiction: The Snatch by T. S. Mallow
The bullet dug a fiery trench across her thigh and she stumbled, catching his arm. “Godammit,” she hissed. He pulled …Read the Rest
Hard Bite and Other Stories by Anonymous-9 – review
By Mar Preston I came upon Hard Bite by Anonymous-9 quite by chance, meeting and liking the author before knowing …Read the Rest
FICTION: ‘Till We Part by Jeffrey Wooten
He had tried not to come here. He had tried to keep driving, to not even look at the gas …Read the Rest
FICTION: Giving From the Broken Down Bottom by Kris Triana
With the electric cut off, the only light in my bedroom came from my neighbor’s obnoxious holiday decorations that burned …Read the Rest
FICTION: A Fugue for Jimmy Mango by B.R. Stateham
The two cops, beat officers dressed in their winter dark blues, sat saucers and cups of hot coffee on the …Read the Rest
Three Theories on the Murder of John Wily by J David Osborne from Warmed & Bound – review
reviewed by Nick Mamatas “Three Theories on the Murder of John Wily” by J David Osborne is the sort of …Read the Rest
Acts of Contrition by Craig Clevenger from Warmed & Bound – review
reviewed by Barry Graham Elmore Leonard has said that one of the things that makes his prose so compelling is …Read the Rest
Click-Clack by Caleb J. Ross from Warmed & Bound – review
Reviewed by Matthew C. Funk There is a music to life’s morbidity. The classic example of the ticking clock. The …Read the Rest
The Road Lester Took by Stephen Graham Jones from Warmed & Bound
reviewed by Court Merrigan “The Road Lester Took” starts with Lester stacking his cards, and this story unfolds in much …Read the Rest
Practice by Bob Pastorella from Warmed & Bound – review
Review by Sabrina E. Ogden For me, looking back at my friends now, the signs of there being a serious …Read the Rest
Inside Out by Sean P Ferguson from Warmed & Bound – review
reviewed by Stephen Blackmoore Reviews are tricky. You’re balancing your subjectivity as a reader with the objectivity that the piece …Read the Rest
Death Juggler by Axel Taiari from Warmed & Bound – review
reviewed by Simon Logan Kicking off the Warmed and Bound anthology is Death Juggler by Axel Taiari and it sets …Read the Rest
The Redemption of Garvey Flint by Vincent Louis Carrella from Warmed & Bound – review
reviewed by Ben Springer The Redemption of Garvey Flint by Vincent Louis Carrella is one hell of a story. Garvey …Read the Rest
Take Arms Against a Sea by Mark Jaskowski from Warmed & Bound – review
reviewed by Kevin Burton Smith Have I been set up? Lord knows, cranky old me has been railing for years, …Read the Rest
Bruised Flesh by Craig Wallwork from Warmed & Bound – review
Reviewed by Nigel Bird Warmed and Bound is prefaced by the beautiful line ‘What began as a love letter.’ That’s …Read the Rest
This Will All End Well by Nik Korpon from Warmed & Bound – review
reviewed by Elizabeth White One of the great things about reading is that there are always new authors out there …Read the Rest
Chance the Dick by Paul Tremblay from Warmed & Bound – review
reviewed by Jed Ayres Paul Tremblay’s name is one that’s been on my list to catch up with for about …Read the Rest
