THE UNSIGNED BOOKS ARE THE RARE ONES…

Ah, I get it. You’re being ironic. Well, I suppose so, but the statement’s not that far from the literal truth. There was a good stretch of time, up until perhaps a dozen years ago, when I spent a disproportionate amount of my days and nights inscribing my...

DEAD GIRL BLUES—good news and, well…

My new book is off to an explosive start, and has taken only a week to reach 19 reviews on Amazon. I’d like to share a favorite, but it strikes me as only fair to balance it off with the words of a reader whose judgment is a good deal less laudatory. So...

“Touched in equal parts with genius and sin…”

Ethan Iverson, when he’s not playing the piano, is apt to be reading crime fiction—and writing eloquently and incisively about it. (His new survey of Rex Stout’s body of work is remarkable.) Here’s what he’s now posted: “One of the new...