Monthly Archives: June 2017

My Review of Paul Doiron’s New Crime Novel, “Knife Creek”

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Bruce DeSilva

In Knife Creek, Paul Doiron’s eighth crime novel featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch, the characters are so well-drawn that you can reach out and shake their hands, and the rural landscape is so vividly portrayed that you can smell … Continue reading →

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Timothy Hallinan’s Wildly Inventive New Simeon Grist Novel

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Bruce DeSilva

Simeon Grist, the hero of six gritty Los Angeles private eye novels by Timothy Hallinan, is about to get a hell of a shock in Pulped, the latest book in this fine series. He’s going to find out that he … Continue reading →

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A Very Tardy Review of Jon Talton’s Gripping Newspaper Mystery, “Deadline Man”

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Bruce DeSilva

Several years ago, after one of my book signings at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ, the proprietor, Barbara Peters, gave me a copy of Deadline Man, a stand-alone crime novel by Jon Talton published by her independent publishing … Continue reading →

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My Review of Don Winslow’s “The Force”

Posted on June 4, 2017 by Bruce DeSilva

It’s a thing now–books, movies, and TV shows that ask us to sympathize with, and even root for, dirty cops. Of course, we’ve long been accustomed to characters like Dirty Harry, Martin Riggs and John Luther, fictional cops who broke … Continue reading →

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