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I Thought He Would Live Forever

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Bruce DeSilva

At my age, old friends and colleagues die with such frequency that I have almost become numb to it, but somehow I thought that Steve Parisi would live forever. He was a big, boisterous man with a luxurious head of … Continue reading →

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New Digs For Liam Mulligan, Hero of My Crime Novels

Posted on December 8, 2016 by Bruce DeSilva

The first four books in my Edgar Award-winning series of crime novels had Liam Mulligan working as an investigative reporter for a dying Providence, R.I. newspaper. The job didn’t pay much, so he lived in a rundown tenement house in … Continue reading →

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My TV Interview About “The Dread Line” And What The New Novel Has To Do With The New England Patriots

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Bruce DeSilva

In this interview with GoLocalTV in Providence, news editor Kate Nagle asks me how the New England Patriots and the murder charges against their former star tight end, Aaron Hernandez, inspired the plot of The Dread Line, the latest in … Continue reading →

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How I Made the Transition From Journalist to Crime Novelist

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Bruce DeSilva

A lot of people think that daily journalism must be a great training ground for novelists. I tell them that, for the most part, it is not. As someone who worked as a news reporter and editor for forty years … Continue reading →

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What’s a Mystery Writer to Do When His Hero Loses His Crime-Fighting Job?

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Bruce DeSilva

A lot of mystery story heroes used to do something else for a living. For example, Robert B. Parker’s series character, Jesse Stone, was a professional baseball player before he became a police chief. Ace Atkins’s Quinn Colson was a … Continue reading →

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“A Scourge of Vipers” — Life Imitates Art

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Bruce DeSilva

  The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has invalidated a 2014 New Jersey law that would have allowed casinos and race tracks to take bets on sporting events. Chris Christie had pushed it through so that the state could … Continue reading →

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AudioFile Magazine Review of “A Scourge of Vipers.”

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Bruce DeSilva

Click here for the AudioFile Magazine review of my most recent hardboiled crime novel, A Scourge of Vipers, and listen free as award-winning book narrator Jeff Woodman reads the first chapter. A Scourge of Vipers by Bruce DeSilva is the … Continue reading →

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Look Who’s Reading “A Scourge of Vipers.” It’s Blues Legend Magic Dick!

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Bruce DeSilva

Magic Dick, aka Richard Salwitz, is best known as one of the founding members of the J. Geils Band. His brilliant harmonica playing on unforgettable cuts like “Whammer Jammer”  led The Rolling Stone Record Guide to proclaim him perhaps the … Continue reading →

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Buddy And Me: My Farewell to “The Prince of Providence”

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Bruce DeSilva

Like the city of Providence, I had a complicated relationship with Vincent A. “Buddy” Cianci Jr. — the city’s longest-serving mayor, a convicted felon, a brilliant politician, and a charming rogue — who died today of colon-cancer complications at the … Continue reading →

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Year-End Honor for “A Scourge of Vipers”

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Bruce DeSilva

My thanks to Scott MacKay of the Rhode Island NPR affiliate for including my latest crime novel,  A Scourge of Vipers, on the list of his favorite 2015 books. Scott said in part, “DeSilva shows once again that he is … Continue reading →

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