I'm quite a fan of Luc Besson's movies especially the thrillers that he had done early in his career with 'Nikita' and 'Leon'.  I felt that he had not surpassed them since then until now.



My attention was drawn to the movie 'Colombiana' as it had a similar plot line to my debut book Early Memory - a young girl's parents were murdered and she grew up to be an assassin out for revenge against their killers.  I rented it out on DVD and thankfully that's where the similarity…

Earlier this month, I had my palm read at a party by a professional. That is to say, she was hired to read palms at this party. Right away, she had lots to say about my writing - despite my not telling her about it.

Bizarre coincidence or something…

I was captured by Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway series from the first book, The Crossing Places (my review) and the second - The Janus Stone. (…

An early post this week as I'll be gone tomorrow.



I just wanted to share how others feel about editing. These comments were gathered after seveal people read another blog pot about editing. I saved my comments for the end.



I've been told that spelling capability, or lack of it, has been proven, in brain studies, to come from a certain small part of the brain. For that reason, I have no judgment about poor spellers, only judgments on the writing itself. I, for one, wish to…

Elly Griffiths is the British author of Ruth Galloway books, a unique series with a character very different from other crime fictions: She is a forensic archeologist. Elly’s interest in archaeology comes from her husband, Andrew, who gave up his city job to retrain as an archaeologist. She lives in Brighton, on the south coast of England, with her husband and two…

New Mystery Reader has posted a review of Wild Bill by Karen Treanor, as well as an interview Karen did with me. It was great fun, and many thanks go to Karen and Stephanie Padilla at NMR.

By the way, for…

Jack Reilly is a ex-cop who is trying to make a living as a P.I.

He's hired by a friend of his brother, Marty, who is in prison.

The man who hires Jack is gunned down shortly thereafter and Jack wants to know why.

As he begins his investigation, we cannot help but remember another Boston, P.I., Robert Parker's wonderful character, Spencer. The author…

News from the Audio Publishers Association in America is very welcome with the release of their annual Survey Highlights for Audio Books showing an increase in audio book sales over the last year. This is good news for me on a personal level because I have several of my…

Coming later this month from Trestle Press: The Girl from Yesterday by Joshua J. Mark

Although paranormal mysteries are something I'm only starting to inch toward writing, I find myself interested in reading more of it after watching this video.…

Opened up my e-mail this morning to see that author/reviewer Chantal Boudreau had reviewed all four of the Maynard Soloman short stories. She loved 'em even though crime fiction humor isn't her normal cup of tea. It's proof the Ol' Badger has what it takes to reach beyond genre boundaries.

She writes:

Detective stories are…

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Roslund and Hellström's first novel, Three Seconds, hit bestseller lists in their native Sweden and in the US. (my review)

Their latest book,…

Book Title:   THE CALLER

Author:  Karin Fossum

ISBN:  9781846553936

Series:   Inspector Sejer

Publisher:   Harvill Secker

Year of Publication:   2011



One mild summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram beneath a maple tree. But when Lily steps outside she is paralysed with terror. The child is bathed in blood.



Inspector Sejer is called to the hospital to meet the family. Mercifully the…

Book Title:   SHE'S NEVER COMING BACK

Author:  Hans Koppel

ISBN:   9780751547825

Publisher:   Little Brown

Year of Publication:   2012



When Ylva, a loving mother and wife, fails to come home from work, her husband is not initially suspicious.  But as time passes he becomes frantic with worry.  And by the time he finally contacts the police, he is almost hysterical.  Given the mysterious circumstances of her disappearance, he becomes the number one…

My cult thriller, The Prophet Motive, was my first attempt at fiction writing; but, after having written my second novel, I went back and revised it and turned it into an ebook. It's doing fairly well based on the Amazon reviewers, and it just won a Red Adept Reviews Indie Award for Thrillers/Suspense, 2011.

See…

Just a quick note for anyone going into tradpubbing, epubbing, or selfpubbing: An interview with Rob Hart on the LitReactor site (www.litreactor.com) is worth reading. There's a reference to whether writers are more interested in getting published than in writing well. I've always wondered about writers' motivations in general. LitReact is a pretty okay site and worth checking once in a while. Lee Lamothe

The King of Diamonds  is a genuine five star book…

Dan Coleman and I share a storied history in a certain way. We're both CrimeSpace members, refugees from the…