My latest novel, Hawker and the King’s Jewel (Canelo Adventure 2022), begins where you might expect a book about the Yorkist dynasty would end: the battle of Bosworth Field and the death of Richard III. The novel has only one battle in […]
Readers find sociopaths in novels compelling for many reasons, not least of which is that they are exciting to read about. After all, they’re usually unpredictable, never boring, and often quite humorous. Probably the best example is Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. […]
I have a new short story out this week in Mystery Tribune called “Shooting the Breeze”. It’s set in Providence, Rhode Island in the summer of 1964 and centers on two recent retirees who are neighbors in a working-class section of Providence […]
Some of you may have noticed a few recent Facebook posts of mine mentioning my latest book addiction: the novels of Raymond Chandler. Chandler’s works were something I’d always just taken for granted. I knew who he was and I’d seen The […]