I was born in Brighton in 1976 and, after a decade or so living in London and trying to convince myself that the tube was fine, really, because it gave me a chance to read, my wife and I moved back to Brighton with our three young children. That Barnaby, Joseph and...
Author Matthew Quirk is the bestselling author of The 500, Dead Man Switch, Cold Barrel Zero, and The Directive. He spent five years at The Atlantic reporting on crime, private military contractors, terrorism prosecutions, and international gangs, and still uses his...
Author Joanna Schaffhausen is back with her next Ellery Hathaway mystery No Mercy (in stores Tuesday, January 15th from Minotaur Books, following last year's The Vanishing Season. It's another thrilling story that calls upon her past and her present day. Ellery is...
Nick Petrie received his MFA in fiction from the University of Washington and won a Hopwood Award for short fiction while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. His story “At the Laundromat” won the 2006 Short Story Contest in The Seattle Review, a national...
Dana Diaz has moved to Austin from Los Angeles to continue working on her standup career. After an incident in LA and a fallout with her best friend/business partner Jason, she's determined to continue her career here. She works be day and at night does standup and is...
Imagine driving in a snowstorm in a beat up old car in the mountains of Colorado on the way to see your dying mother in Utah. The storm is so bad you have to pull over to a rest stop and wait it out. Your cell phone is dying, you have no charger, no signal or WIFI. At...
Review by Lauryn Angel To say that I’ve been a Holly Black fan for years is an understatement. Not the years part, the fan part. I looooove Holly Black’s books, particularly those involving Faerie. As far as I’m concerned, Holly Black is the undisputed Queen of...
Author William R. Forstchen is known for his One Second After series (which I never read) and is back with his new novel 48 Hours, out on Tuesday, January 8th from Forge. The book will remind you of the 1998 movie Deep Impact (which wasn't that good). This book is...
Jayne Ann Krentz has written a lot of great novels with no sign of slowing down. She's back with book number three in her Cutler, Sutter and Salinas series titles Untouchable, in stores on Tuesday, January 8th from Berkley Hardcover. This one centers on Jack Lancaster...
Author Laura Joh Rowland is back with her third Victorian novel with the characters of Sarah Bain, Hugh and Mick. It's my first time reading one of her books and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great characters, a fun plot and a climatic ending with a mystery still left for...