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Tag Archives: Paul Doiron
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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My Review of “Bad Little Falls” By Paul Doiron.
Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron’s new crime novel, Bad Little Falls, has just been published, and it’s another winner. My review for the Associated Press begins this way: Maine game warden Mike Bowditch should have learned by now that he … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Little Falls, Bruce DeSilva, Down East, Main, Mike Bowditch, Paul Doiron, Poacher's Son, Trespasser
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The Ten Best Crime Novels of 2011
This was a great year for crime fiction, so perhaps it would be better to call these my favorites, rather than the best. Or maybe I should just say that of the ones I’ve read, these are the ten I … Continue reading
My Review of “Trespasser” by Paul Doiron
Paul Doiron was an Edgar Award finalist for his first crime novel. The sequel, Trespasser is even better. Once again, the protagonist is a Maine game warden named Mike Bowditch. And once again, the writing is superb, the story is … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, Bruce DeSilva, crime fiction, hard-boiled, Maine, mystery, noir, Paul Doiron, Rogue Island, Trespasser
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My Night at the Edgars: The Photos
My daughter Melanie and my granddaughter Mikaila accompanied me to the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Awards Banquet at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan. Below are photographs of the event. (The photos showing Melanie and Mikaila with Rambo’s creator, … Continue reading
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
