Author Archives: Bruce DeSilva

About Bruce DeSilva

Crime Novelist

A Brilliant Talk About the Writing Craft by the Great Patricia Smith

Posted on November 12, 2019

Please check out this video about the craft of writing by Patricia Smith. (I’d think it was brilliant even if I wasn’t married to her.)

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A Photo From the Estate of Gilded Age Robber Baron Jay Gould Finds It’s Way Home

Posted on October 5, 2019

This daguerreotype, which I just sold on eBay, has a penciled note inside the case identifying it as coming from the estate of notorious Gilded Age robber baron Jay Gould. The buyer says: “I believe the baby is my great … Continue reading →

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My Review of “Blood in the Water,” a New Thriller Set in Boston

Posted on October 3, 2019

Jack Flynn does a fine job developing complex characters while keeping the tension high in Blood in the Water, his fast-paced yarn of intrigue, violence and personal betrayals. His prose, for the most part, is tight and precise. And his … Continue reading →

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The Vicious Cycle of Homelessness in America

Posted on September 23, 2019

We are repeating vicious a cycle that is as old as the settlement of America. In colonial times, people who couldn’t take care of themselves, including homeless children, the mentally ill, old folks suffering from dementia, and those we used … Continue reading →

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Julia Keller’s Heartbreaking Blues Song of a Novel–My Review

Posted on August 21, 2019

Julia Keller’s eighth yarn featuring West Virginia crime fighter Bell Elkins is a heartbreaking blues song of a novel, employing beauty to evoke despair while reminding readers that even in the darkest of days, there might also be light. The … Continue reading →

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Tensions Run High in C. J. Box’s New Cassie Dewell Thriller

Posted on August 16, 2019

After losing her law enforcement job following a tumultuous serial killer investigation in Paradise Valley, Cassie Dewell resurfaces as a struggling private detective in C.J. Box’s new crime novel, The Bitterroots. Hired to examine what appears to be an open … Continue reading →

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Another Fine Private Eye Novel by T. Jefferson Parker

Posted on August 16, 2019

In T. Jefferson Parker’s new Roland Ford thriller, The Last Good Guy, the search for a missing girl leads the private eye to a mysterious date farm with military-grade security, a security firm owned by a racist billionaire, a decommissioned … Continue reading →

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“A Dangerous Man,” the New Thriller by Robert Crais, is One of His Best Yet

Posted on August 6, 2019

Joe Pike is about to climb into his Jeep on Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile when he sees a man force a young woman into the back seat of a waiting car. When the car pulls away from the curb, Pike … Continue reading →

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My Review of “Lost You” by Haylen Beck, AKA Stuart Neville

Posted on August 6, 2019

Surrogacy — in which a woman agrees to carry a baby for another person or couple — is a legal swamp in America, and in this, veteran crime novelist Stuart Neville, writing under the pen name Haylen Beck, has found … Continue reading →

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Ben Coes, Thriller Writer, Has a Temper Tantrum

Posted on July 30, 2019

I didn’t find anything to like about The Russians, the new thriller by Ben Coes, but I WAS amused by his petulant temper tantrum over my review for the Associated Press. I rarely write negative book reviews. I think life … Continue reading →

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