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COVER REVEAL - Burning Down the House, Edited by Michel Lee Garrett and T. Fox DunhamMichel Lee Garrett is one of the best editors of noir working today. We first came across each other my last year at Shotgun Honey, and in...
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Love Lies Out of Left FieldThe other day I saw the teriffic Love Lies Bleeding . It's a refreshing blast of neo-noir that certainly upholds the promise of director Rose...
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Reacher Season 2 Reaches Back into Reacher’s PastBy Scott D. Parker I’ve now watched the second season of Amazon’s “Reacher” and not only am I caught up, I’m all in. Let’s be fair: I...
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Tell the best story you can: An interview with Bobby MathewsBy Steve Weddle Bobby Mathews is a University of Alabama fan, but don't hold that against him. He won the Derringer Award for...
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The Perennial Appeal of The War of Art by Steven PressfieldBy Scott D. Parker (This is a rerun, originally written in 2022, but this is a perennial reminder that Resistance is always present and...
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Spade and RipleyWhile watching the series Monsieur Spade , I had a funny thought. Besides whatever connections the show has to Spade's history, the six episodes...
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When There Are Too Many Books and Too Little Time, Optimize Your ReadingBy Scott D. Parker It started with The Six Million Dollar Man. A few weeks ago, I learned that the debut of one of my favorite...
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The Reason AI Novels StinkBy Steve Weddle I've seen authors share this idea around the internet quite a bit the past few days. "I think the best response...
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True Detective: Night Country Asks an Interesting Question: What if The Thing Was a Murder Mystery?By Scott D. Parker I’m a True Detective newbie but I was all-in on the fourth season, True Detective: Night Country. Why? Jodie...
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Reading Hammett and Proust at The Same TimeIn conjunction with watching the series Monsieur Spade (about which more next week perhaps), I decided to do some Sam Spade reading. There's...
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A Maverick Pathologist (Mostly) Seeks the Truth: Harrow Season 1by Scott D. Parker I actually laughed when I watched the first fifteen minutes of the pilot episode of the Australian TV show, Harrow,...
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Being in the Room to Witness CreativityBy Scott D. Parker I love to know how things are made. It’s one of the main reasons why I buy the DVDs of my favorite movies—other than,...
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SaltburnWhat do you do when you agree with many of the criticisms about something, a book or film, for example, but still enjoy that something? The...
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When Reacher Did the Sherlock Holmes Thing, I Was HookedBy Scott D. Parker It took a pair of podcast hosts and Sherlock Holmes to finally get me to watch Season 1 of Reacher. By the time I...
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You Would Never Know The Mysterious Affair at Styles Was a Debut Novelby Scott D. Parker For the past four years, I’ve tried to read along with the reading plans hatched by the folks behind...
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The Murdered BankerI've been reading the Pushkin Vertigo issued mystery novels for several years now, and most recently among their books, I finished one of their...
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Duane Swierczynski Talks Moving Backstory of New Novel in Return to Houston’s Murder by the Bookby Scott D. Parker It’s been nine years since Philadelphia native Duane Swierczynski had a book signing at Houston’s Murder by the Book...
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Beau is back, babyBeau is back
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Can Anyone Get Away With Murder? Eight Perfect Murders Provides An Answerby Scott D. Parker The last book I read in 2023 was the Christmas novella, The Christmas Guest, by a new-to-me writer, Peter...
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Beginning of a Great AdventureIt's not until fairly recently that I became aware of Percival Everett. Never mind that his first novel came out 40 years ago and that he's...
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Bunny hugs and eBay orders: The Steve Weddle InterviewBy Eryk Pruitt When naming giants in the canon of rural/Southern crime fiction from the 21 st century will inevitably name Daniel...
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My Christmas 2023 PlaylistAccurate depiction of my children every year. "*!#&* socks again." By Claire Booth It’s time for my annual...
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Abel Ferrara's 'R XmasWell, here we are once again, holiday season, which includes Christmas season, and among other things, it's a time, if you're so inclined, to...
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It's a Good Thing the Crooks Are Not Very Smart in The Christmas Thiefby Scott D. Parker Gather ‘round kids and let me tell about something we had back in the day. Here in Houston, there was a store that let...
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THE SAME OLD SONG: Presenting the Introduction to Rock and a Hard Place's THE ONE PERCENTIf you've noticed there's been a suspicious lack of Paul J. Garth posting on Do Some Damage lately, well, first, I'm going to have to question...
