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"Hit Man" Is a Nice Piece of Counter Programming for Summer 2024By Scott D. Parker Well, that wasn’t what I expected. But maybe I should have. “Hit Man” debuted on Netflix last Friday...
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Be Expansive For a ChangeIn his forward to his second collection of fiction, The Garden of Forking Paths , Jorge Luis Borges laid out, not for the last time, his views...
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Always Strive For Your Dreamsby Scott D. Parker Every year during the first week of June, my mind drifts back to the first week of June 1944. The week leading up to...
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A Charleston thriller: The Jon Sealy InterviewBy Steve Weddle I've been a fan of Jon Sealy's since The Whiskey Baron came out a little more than 10 years ago. Of that book, the...
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Start Your Summer Writing Project TodayBy Scott D. Parker Have you started yet? Remember how excited you were on New Year’s Day? You had high hopes about the year,...
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Sports and Crime, 70s StyleThe death of basketball player Bill Walton yesterday reminded me of how sports and crime can sometimes intersect, and in the oddest of ways. I...
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Add Tom Straw and Matt Goldman to Your Summer Reading Listby Scott D. Parker I walked into Murder by the Book on Wednesday knowing one author. I left knowing two. I’ve enjoyed Tom Straw’s writing...
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Bishop Rider LivesGet yours here “Bloody, vengeful, revelatory. Some of today's best crime and horror writers sharpen their power and...
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BISHOP RIDER LIVES - The First LinesIn case you missed the news yesterday - and, if you were on the internet and at all tuned in to the crime fiction community, I'm not sure...
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The Heist, Featuring Detective Isaac Bell, Arrives Just In Time for Summer AdventureBy Scott D. Parker Clive Cussler knew his readers. The prolific author wrote over sixty books in his lifetime (he died in 2020...
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Percival Everett's WatershedIn my continuing exploration of the fictional world of Perceval Everett, I recently read his novel from 1996, Watershed . As he does in some of...
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Jess Keeler returns: The Eryk Pruitt interviewVisit Eryk Pruitt on X for more: @reverenderyk By Steve Weddle By now, you've read and loved Something Bad Wrong...
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The 1970s Come Alive in the Highly Entertaining--Now Award-Nominated--Lowdown Roadby Scott D. Parker (In honor of its Anthony Award nomination for Best Paperback Novel, I'd like to remind everyone just how much fun Scott...
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Dark MatterDark Matter is now streaming on Apple TV, so Beau says it's a great time to revisit the book.
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How Do You Prepare to Write a Novel?By Scott D. Parker Wednesday marked what I like to call my personal Writer’s New Year’s Day. It commemorates my decision on 1 May 2013 to write...
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Are There Any Literary Jump the Shark Moments?by Scott D. Parker (The day job ate up all my time this week so I'm posting another rerun, this one from 2021. I am working on two new...
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Topical Versus TimelessYears ago, when I was working as a tutor at a community college in New York, I was having a conversation about something (I don't remember what)...
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History Comes Alive With The Lincoln Conspiracyby Scott D. Parker (To commemorate the Apple TV series, Manhunt (the story of the search for John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators),...
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Patricia Highsmith's ChillersYou could say that the current Netflix series Ripley goes retro since it uses black and white. Of course that use reflects the era...
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Reading Outside Your Usual Genre Can Deliver Surprisesby Scott D. Parker In his newsletter this week, author Rob Hart gave some recent recommendations, including one outside of his...
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What Book Packed a Real Emotional Punch?By Scott D. Parker When was the last time a book delivered an emotional response? One of my science fiction book club guys texted me...
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Alert StorytellingI haven't read Dune or any of Frank Herbert's books and I didn't make any effort to go see the first Denis Villaneuve Dune film when it came...
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How Do You Read the Books You Read?By Scott D. Parker I’m a book nerd. You too? Yeah, it’s great, huh. I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a ton of To Be Read lists on my...
