It isn’t a good thing to come across a man with a gun. Especially when the man with the gun is tweaking on meth. It is a hot August day in Blacklin County, Texas and while Rhodes is sweating because of the heat and having a gun pointed at him; the meth head is sweating […]

Reid Bennett has been police chief of Murphy’s Harbour in Canada for three years now. That means he knows the locals pretty well and is very much aware of all the young people in the area. He knows that the kids he sees down Main Street are not local. They also seem to be the […]

The plan had been to win the election and then start maternity leave about three weeks later as Butch would be back from his short but intense book tour then. That had been the plan for Sheriff Joanna Brady. But, whether it happened due to the stress of election night, the campaign, recent events, or […]

Reid Bennet is always willing to go help a friend.  In this eighth book of the series titled, Snowjob, that willingness takes him to Chambers, Vermont. While Reid Bennett was an odd man out because of his history when he arrived in Murphy’s Harbour, Doug Ford is going to always be the odd man out […]

The past has always been a major part of the Kevin Kerney series and is a major piece if not the main theme of the latest, Residue. A novel that serves to tie up several different story arcs that have been present most of the series.   As the thirteenth novel in the series begins, […]

Trail of Echoes is third in the series that began with Land of Shadows and opens in the middle of March as the rains repeatedly pound the Los Angeles area. Free from her marriage to Greg by court decree and yet not free from his allure or many other ghosts physical and otherwise, Detective Norton’s […]

“Horror seized Jesse by the throat and he gasped as he slammed on the brakes. The car went into an immediate spin, flying directly at Danny whose eyes went wide in the headlights. Jesse felt a thud against the back panel of the car. He screamed, the view from every window only blurred streaks of […]

  Sunday crunch – thoughts to put you off your dinner The slippery slope to barbarism   Barbaric regimes generally do not become barbarous overnight – once they take power they usually take stock for a while before ratcheting up their control, persecution and inhumanities. The worst excesses of the Nazis did not come immediately […]

In today’s technology-driven world, Smartphones are all that you need to have to perform your day-to-day tasks with ease. Be it an Android or iOS, your handset comes loaded with thousands of exciting games and entertainment feature that don’t let you keep your mobile aside. Online casinos aren’t an exception here. It has not been […]

When you think back to your childhood, you might recall just how much you did. It was probably an extremely busy time, and if it feels as though your parents took you all over the place to a variety of different clubs and activities, that is most likely the case. After all, children have a […]

It’s not always easy to spot the moment when firm belief turns into zealotry. The Eurosceptic minority in the Conservative Party, like death and taxes, has always been with us. They received their first significant boost when the One Nation Tories overthrew the increasingly deranged Margaret Thatcher in 1990 over her growing objections to Britain […]

  “Sutter draped his arm over my shoulder and brought me close. “Bodies float, Chicago. They get washed ashore with the tides, especially with the big diesels churning up the water. Disposing of a body has to be done right. They have to be tied and weighed down and dumped out in the middle of […]

Flue can turn your world into a whole misery. Especially when it is in the early stages. Feeling weak, headaches, the list goes on. But then you are not dying you just have to know what to do when you catch the bug. Keep on reading and we help you on how to get rid […]

Well folks, in case you didn’t notice, it is a whole new year! And with every new year comes new year resolutions that most tend to forget just as soon as they make them! But are you serious about this particular new year resolution and are they all about improving your online gambling career? Then […]

As the trend turning our media News outlets into talk shows continues, one in particular (CNN ) has created a new format, having our Responsible reporters becoming guest commentators wasn’t enough, now we have our “Anchor” man (person) -. as the News story Itself. Here is a recent example which shows the reporter as the […]

As On The Inside: A Reid Bennet Mystery begins, newly Married Reid Bennett is the mining town of Elliot on an undercover assignment. He should have been away on his honeymoon with Freda. Instead, he is applying to be an officer on the local police force in the hopes that he can substantiate the rumors of […]

My name is Simon Barrett, I lived in West Hendred from around 1964 till 1975 or so. My parents were Gus and Jane Barrett, our home was the Hare. It was nearly 40 years ago that I left England to make a new life in North America, I do however from time to time check […]

A Posadas County Mystery is always a special treat and the latest, Lies Come Easy, is no exception. It is late on a snowy Friday night and just three days before Christmas. Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is looking forward to the end of her swing shift. That is until she gets a call from Deputy Pasquale […]

Mystery Weekly Magazine: July 2018 opens with “Cap Device” by Jim Doherty. Dad’s lesson long ago along with attention to detail play a major role in this tale set in Berkley, California. Officer Dan Sullivan saw the car pull into the parking lot long after the restaurant had closed and decided to check it out. Ellie […]

I was bored today, there was nothing interesting on the $180 a month Cable TV a 1000 channels, but nothing to watch. On the free pluto.tv I stumbled upon two cracking documentaries, A Patent Scam and A Dangerous Game. Two very different subjects, or are they? A Patent Scam is an interesting look at at […]

“Something moves among the birds, along the snowy lanes, skirting the light in favor of shadow. In Christmas Village, this night, a creature is stirring.” –From Slay Bells by T.C. Wescott T.C. Wescott was born in Missouri but has lived in Oklahoma most of his life. Like pretty much every author who has ever breathed, […]

“Horror seized Jesse by the throat and he gasped as he slammed on the brakes. The car went into an immediate spin, flying directly at Danny whose eyes went wide in the headlights. Jesse felt a thud against the back panel of the car. He screamed, the view from every window only blurred streaks of […]

In the two years of Trump has been president I have lost count of how many disastrous weeks he has had. Almost always they have been self inflicted disasters. The past week may well be his worst week to date. Lets explore what he managed to achieve in the past 7 days. For the third […]

“Up ahead, moonlight sparkled on marble-and-granite monuments to forgotten lives. The Mexican National Cemetery was cursed more than most. What did my countrymen expect when they threw a bunch of American bones in mass graves, including mine? Because I suffered my unresolved death and entered Nowhere from Mexico City, my dusty remnants were strewn here, […]

I hate paying bills, I am sure the vast number of people share my dislike of the activity. The bill that irks me the most is cable TV. The last time I looked we are paying $180 per month. Sure we have a gazzilion channels but I find that rarely is there something that I […]

The movie hits theaters on Jan 4 and I really hope it does well.I don’t know what the budget for the movie was, but it was far less that the misery “Mortal Engines” that is currently tanking at the box office. Big and sweeping is not always better than small and personal. Before we get […]

This is a great double album of Blue Grass music starring the late Jerry Garcia. Yes, it is that Jerry Garcia, as in the Grateful Dead. As any self respecting Deadhead knows Jerry had an interest in Bluegrass. And in 1975 the Grateful Dead took a brief vacation, likely for drug rehab! Jerry took the […]

The cover story “Lady Dick” starts off the Mystery Weekly Magazine: June 2018 and it is a good one. After WWII a woman has to put her war time earned skills to work at home in this tale by Tony Parker. It is 1947 and “DC coppers object to me ventilating mugs for adultery.” Well, […]

“Personal drama handled, my heart found its regular pace, and I shoved the phone back into my bag. I muttered another “thank you,” then jammed up the hill, following a dank river of water and ashes that would end in blood.” (Skies of Ash, Rachel Howzell Hall, Chapter Two, Page 20)   It is almost […]

The sexting and the coke were already a problem before he got caught by Betty when she came home with the kids. The drugs on the coffee table and the messages on the phone were dead giveaways even if Betty had not noticed his glassy eyes. She noticed and she was not happy. He could […]