When you conjure up the image of an occult detective in your mind, what do you see? Wrinkled trenchcoat—or trenchcloak? Smoke—tobacco laced with brimstone? Shadowy alleys, filled with unseen, ...

I was referring to the 1970 album of that name by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention? I desperately needed medical assistance of some kind? I was referring to the classic men’s adventure ...

Recent developments in AI are unsettling and even scary. Is a computer going to take your job? Quite possibly. However, if you’re a writer of fiction, the giant leaps made by artificial intelligence ...

A mystery lover’s guide to what’s new to streaming this weekend. ___________________________________ New and Returning ...

I’ve been doing a lot of interviews around the publication of my novel Five Decembers, and one question I keep encountering is what I plan to write next. The true answer is, I’m not sure yet. But in ...

I don’t know if I like horror or not, honestly. I definitely like it more than I used to? Still, I don’t really ever want to ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you hike across the desert, intently looking at the ground, you will ...

In April 1986, somebody started a fire in one of the restricted book stacks of the Los Angeles Central Library. The resulting destruction and damage to over one million books – and the years of repair ...

Book tours have taught me to expect the unexpected. There was the couple in Texas who kindly housed me but warned about their ...

On October 8th, we lost Mark Pryor, a great craftsman of entertaining mysteries and thrillers, and an active and much loved ...

In 753 BCE something happened to the Sabine Women. Romulus, fresh off of founding Rome, could not make marriages for himself ...

You’ve driven all day. You’re tired. Your muscles are stiff and tight from sitting too long. You can’t wait to relax. Unwind.