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Tag Archives: Dennis Lehane
Revised Top 10 List: Best Crime Novels of 2012
When I first posted my list of the ten best crime novels of 2012, I forgot to include one of my favorites, Joseph Olshan’s brilliant literary tale, Cloudland. I don’t have the heart to delete any of the others to … Continue reading
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Tagged ace atkins, Bad Little Falls, Best Mysteries, Bill Wells, Black Box, Bruce DeSilva, Bryan Gruley, Chris Knopf, Cloudland, Creone Belle, crime novels, David Freed, Dead Anyway, Dennis Lehane, Flat Spin, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, hardboiled, James Lee Burke, Joseph Olshan, Live By Night, Lullaby, michael connelly, noir, Paul Doiron, Rober Crais, Robert B. Parker, Skeleton Box, Spenser, Taken, The Lost Ones, Timothy Hallinan, Walter Mosley
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Crime Novelist Timothy Hallinan Interviews Me About “Cliff Walk.”
Tim Hallinan is one of the best crime novelists in the business. So I’m honored that he interviewed me about my new Mulligan crime novel, Cliff Walk, for his blog. Here’s the text of that interview: CLIFF WALK is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce DeSilva, Cliff Walk, crime fictioon, Daniel Woodrell, Dennis Lehane, John Steinbeck, legalized prostitution, Liam Mulligan, Mulligan, mysteries, newspapers, noir, Peter Dexter, Providence, Raymond Chandler, Rhode Island, Robert B. Parker, Thomas H. Cook, Timothy Hallinan
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Writing a Hard-Boild Crime Novel, an 80-Year-Old Form, and Making It Fresh and Contemporary
Ever since I read a paperback copy of Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye about fifty years ago, I have loved hard-boiled crime novels; but when I finally sat down to write my first one, I confronted a problem: How could … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce DeSilva, crime fiction, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Gregory McDonald, hardboiled, Humphrey Bogart, John Houston, mysteries, noir, Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Robert Crais, Rogue Island, The Long Goodbye, The Maltese Falcon, thrillers, writing
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My Night at the Edgars
CriminalElement.com, a website hosted by my publisher, asked me to write a first-person account of my night at the Edgar Awards Banquet. Here it is. In my imagination, mystery novelists spend long days writing in T-shirts and jeans (or maybe … Continue reading
An Interview With Me on Murderati
Murderati, the fine crime fiction website, published an interview with me this week. It ranges from the writing of my Edgar-Award nominated novel, Rogue Island, to the future of the newspaper business. Please take a look by clicking here.”
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Tagged Bruce DeSilva, crime fiction, Dennis Lehane, Laura Lippman, murderati, mysteries, noir, Providence, Rhode Island, Rogue Island, Thomas Cook, thrillers, writing
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My Journey from Journalist to Crime Novelist
This entry first appeared on Sheila Deeth’s book blog. Bruce DeSilva offered to write a guest post here, so I asked him my favorite question, little realizing what a great read his reply would be. My question: Please would he … Continue reading
Whodunit? Who cares?
A contributor to Goodreads, one of those websites where people comment on the books they’ve read, was baffled by The Last Talk with Lola Faye, the latest literary crime novel by Thomas H. Cook. “I did not understand the point,” … Continue reading
