by LB | Jul 3, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues
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...
by LB | Jul 2, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues
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...
by LB | Jul 1, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues, Newsletter
First of all, let me tell you that the book is off to a genuinely gratifying start. Self-publishing anything recalls what Don Marquis said of bringing out a volume of poetry—it’s like dropping a rose petal into the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. But in the...
by Admin | Jun 29, 2020 | Books, Dead Girl Blues, News + Events, Non-Series Novels, Reviews
…a brilliant hybrid of a crime novel and first-person psychological study where the subject attempts — not always successfully — to analyze himself. In the meantime, there is a clock that ticks faintly in the background across the years and threatens...
by LB | Jun 23, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues, News + Events, Reviews
This review appeared today in Criminal Element, and it’s just too good to keep to myself… “Lawrence Block has been writing for over sixty years, and he’s written everything from parlor mysteries solved by an affable burglar to the hardest of...
by LB | Jun 19, 2020 | Keller
Today, in addition to being Juneteenth, is Keller’s birthday. Now Keller, who kills people for money and collects stamps for pleasure, is a fictional character, essentially a figment of my overactive imagination. So one might well wonder what he needs with a birthday,...
