In the forward  to Jay Riedel’s new book “Memories of a Fighter Pilot,” General Charles “Chuck” Horner, USAF (ret.) writes, “No fighter pilot is ordinary, but Jay’s story is extraordinary. “  Extraordinary?  With all due respect to the good general, I would say that Riedel’s story goes beyond extraordinary, by a large measure.  Consider [...]

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Professor Carl Burns starts the fall semester at Hartley Norman College preparing again to teach the sophomore level course on American Lit. While he has a few jitters regarding the start of the new semester he is very much dreading the upcoming Edward Street Seminar as their most famous alumni, Edward Street, returns to the [...]

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May 1875 finds Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe back in Austin, Texas and very much in career limbo. Wolfe is still is a Texas Ranger despite the recent events and the media backlash. But, he has been told to stay in Austin and await the arrival of Captain Leander McNelly who will decide one more time [...]

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Usually author interviews are done with the idea of civility and respect.  The same old questions can always be found in nearly every interview. Then there is this book and how Lauren Baratz-Logsted (LBL) does them. The Disrespectful Interviewer: Thirteen Interviews with Authors features interviews with a sarcastic tone along with plenty of references to [...]

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The four member team sent to Rhinebeck, New York, had one target and one mission objective. The Durres Syndicate wants Walt Bergman dead and they want his records. As the commander of the NYPD Intelligence Division he knows where the bodies are buried on and off the force. He knows the identity of confidential informants, [...]

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It is fall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and the tourists with their frenetic energy and electronic devices have all gone back to wherever it is they came from. The peace and quiet has been restored and Webb Sawyer is very glad. Webb Sawyer isn’t a slave to technology and is a man [...]

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Sara and Gen aren’t getting along too well as the twin sisters aren’t identical in their preferences. The last thing Sara wanted to do was spend the weekend working in their yard. Gen did and thought that planting vegetables and getting the mess cleared up was the way to do things. There is tension between [...]

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This is a review that starts at the end! In my book it is a five star stellar piece of writing. You don’t need to even read my review, just go out and buy it. You will not be disappointed. I have known Dave for a few years, he never fails to astonish me. He [...]

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The Education of a Pulp Writer is a gritty in your face read by David Cranmer that features ten short stories that predate his work in Westerns. The people in these stories are people living on the edge of, not just society as noted in the introduction, but on the edge of everything. Character desperation [...]

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I recently had the pleasure of reading Rouge Town, you can read my review here. The book is stunning, it reveals the level of corruption in Stamford, Connecticut in the 1970’s. It was not a pretty sight, organized crime had taken over. As Rogue Town explains, just about every aspect of local government had workers [...]

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Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett knew local resident Butch Roberson. At least he thought he did. Joe Pickett knew something was off with him when he encountered Butch Roberson on the Big Stream Ranch in the Bighorn Mountains. The owner of Meadowlark Construction in nearby Saddlestring had a large backpack–far larger than it should have [...]

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I know Denny Griffin quite well, and I have spoken to Vito Colucci on at least one occasion. I know that Denny likes to play with ex-mobsters, I have talked to several of them. I really didn’t know much about Vito. He was an ex cop, and now a Private Investigator. ‘Would you be interested [...]

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Previously published in Enough Rope as well as “one of the Flesh & Blood anthologies edited by Jeff Gelb and Max Allan Collins” (a note from the author) the story has been re-released as an individual short story. The subtitle is “A Nasty Little Story” and it is certainly is on several levels. This adult [...]

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I have to admit that Paul Mark Tag is a writer on my radar. My introduction was with his novel Category 5, From there I moved onto Prophecy, and ended my journey with the Errant Ricochet. Yup, I read them out of sequence, but my excuse is that he published them out of sequence! The [...]

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Recently released by Untreed Reads this short story revolves around Lorna Lombardi called to serve as a juror in Westchester, New York one January. Kelly Meadows was the 46 year old woman on trial for the murder of her 50 year old husband, Tim. The couple were going through a divorce (though things were civil) [...]

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The Texas Capitol Murders features romance, murder, a Texas Ranger, a governor afraid of his own shadow, strident anti-abortionists, at least one pervert (depending on your personal definition of “pervert” there could be a couple more), and other unique human beings. In other words, the read easily could be nonfiction, but author Bill Crider is [...]

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I greatly enjoyed the authors first book Command Influence, a fact based look at the Korean War, a war that I have heard people describe as the forgotten conflict. Few people know much about it or why it happened. When I received news about Secrets In A Time Of Peace I couldn’t wait to read [...]

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They say that each person has a double floating around on the world. Somebody that looks like him or her and may even act the same way. Nearly everyone who knows Lincoln, who goes by the nickname Linc, hopes and prays for his parents’ sake that this is not true. Twelve year old Linc has [...]

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The death of a police officer is always a tragedy. The fact that it is being described as a suicide and then wouldn’t be covered in any depth by the Newark Eagle- Examiner is something that reporter Carter Ross does not know when he goes off to interview the widow. Noemi Kipps is a formidable [...]

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You want to grow some food, but you don’t want your yard to look like a farm. Or maybe your Home Owner’s Association has rules on that and will freak if they can tell you planted some produce producing plants. Or maybe you have a difficult neighbor who has a tendency to report everything you [...]

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 Eric Wentz’s new work on terrorism, Killing Sharks: De Profundis, is not a very good book.  Rather it is a great book!  It will do for our understanding of the global war on terrorism what Clancy’s books did for our understanding of the Cold War.  Both writers are artists with passionate intensity who deserve our [...]

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Having just passed the bar a few days earlier newly minted lawyer Leo Maxwell expected a routine lunch with his brother Teddy Maxwell. It was 1999 and Teddy was deep in trial and locked into the case. When in trial he always ate at Coruna. That habit meant the shooter knew exactly where Teddy would [...]

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Originally published in 2010 in Lone Star Noir, this short story is now available as a stand alone e-book. Carlos McDaniel was minding his own business as the small lake southeast of College Station, Texas when the two men in business suits showed up. Carlos liked going to the family’s small place at the one [...]

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The Drifter Detective: A Jack Laramie Beat by Garnett Elliott is the latest release from Beat To A Pulp and is a very good one. The striking and well done cover only hints at the powerful tale inside as the read takes readers to West Texas and the world of private investigator Jack Laramie. After [...]

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The Good, The Bad and The Murderous: A Sid Chance Thriller is the second book in the series that began with The Surest Poison. As such, while this novel could be read as a stand-alone, there are the occasional references to the earlier book in the series. It is recommended that you read that book [...]

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I willl make no bones about it, this was an interview that I have wanted to do for a very long time. Damien Lewis may not be a name well known in the US, but he has a string of bestselling books in the UK. He started off as a war correspondent for the BBC [...]

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A Son’s Pursuit Of Justice A memoir by Paul Scharff as told to Keith Bettinger I have sat for hours fiddling with words. It is just a book review screams part of my brain. Book reviews are a walk in the park, read the book and write 500 words, you are done! It is true, [...]

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Damien Lewis is an author that never fails to impress. I admire him for his adaptability, he is equally at home writing pure fiction as he is with non-fiction and all areas in between. His latest best seller Zero Six Bravo is an interesting hybrid, it is fact based, but because of the sensitivity of [...]

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Everything changed for Nora Hamilton that January morning when she woke up alone. Brendan, her police officer husband, was not in the bed with her. The normal morning sounds he would have made were not present. No sounds of the shower, no smell of morning coffee, no nothing as the strange silence stretched on and [...]

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This book is one that I have been looking forward to for quite some time. At long last it seems ready to hit the shelves of bookstores later this week. Fact, as the saying goes, is stranger than fiction. This story certainly lays testament to that thought. “On the morning of June 2, 1981, two [...]

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