Author Archives: Bruce DeSilva

About Bruce DeSilva

Crime Novelist

This Is A National Emergency. America’s Brown Shirts Must Be Stopped.

Posted on August 12, 2017

America needs to be clear about what happened in Charlottesville, VA, this weekend, even if President Trump is not. This must NOT be dismissed as a case of dueling protests that turned violent on both sides. This was a planned, … Continue reading →

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The Most Disgraceful Week in The History of the Presidency

Posted on July 28, 2017

This week, which is not yet over, may already be the most disgraceful one in the in the 228-year-long history of the American presidency. Considering the ignorance and dysfunction that have characterized every day of Trump’s first six months in … Continue reading →

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“Double Wide,” My Crime Novel Review

Posted on July 17, 2017

After an injury blew up his once-promising professional baseball career, Prospero Stark sunk what was left of his money into a ramshackle trailer park just over the mountains from Tucson in the unforgiving Arizona desert. There, he took up residence … Continue reading →

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“Robert B. Parker’s The Hangman’s Sonnet” — My Review

Posted on July 10, 2017

Since his fiancé Diana was murdered (Debt to Pay, 2016), former pro baseball player turned small town police chief Jesse Stone has spent much of his time pounding a baseball into his glove, staring at his poster of Ozzie Smith, … Continue reading →

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

Posted on June 15, 2017

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

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

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

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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Our Remarkable Friend, Benjamin Busch

Posted on May 29, 2017

Our multi-talented friend Benjamin Busch dropped in on us toting bags of groceries last night and proceeded to spend two hours whipping up a fantastic meal while singing along to Van Halen, Ratt, Guns N’ Roses, and Night Ranger at … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Budget Proposal Represents An Unprecedented Threat to Public Health and Safety.

Posted on March 12, 2017

While Americans are preoccupied with the battle over the GOP’s plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, many of us are overlooking the fact that the Trump administration’s budget outline presages an even greater threat to the public’s … Continue reading →

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