DARK RIDE follows Hardy “Hardly” Reed, a perennial stoner living an easy life in California. That all changes when Reed spots two children who both show signs of parental abuse. Feeling the urge to intervene, Reed quickly finds out that Children’s Aid is overwhelmed and stuck in bureaucratic muck. So it’s up to Hardy to…
I achieved a small goal of mine in 2018 by eclipsing the number of books I read in 2017. In 2018, I read over sixty books as opposed to the forty-five I read the year prior. You’ll see some repeat authors on my 2018 list – in fact, this is the third year in a…
Lou Berney, author of the upcoming novel November Road, stops by to chat rewrites, Bouchercon and the crime fiction community. You had received a lot of critical praise as well as an Edgar Award for your most recent novel, The Long and Faraway Gone. Did you feel a lot of pressure to deliver with a…
Career criminal Frank Guidry is sent to Dallas to retrieve a getaway car that was to play a part in the assassination of President Kennedy. The car wasn’t used, so Frank is tasked with retrieving it from the scene of the crime and dumping it into the ocean so that a link cannot be established…
In the summer of 1986 a small movie theatre in Oklahoma City becomes a deadly crime scene following a botched armed robbery. All but one of the employees are murdered by masked gunmen. Flash-forward to present day and the lone survivor – Wyatt Rivers – is working in Las Vegas as a private investigator. Now,…
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