Check out Honest Jim’s review of Dana King’s The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of. Then go grab a copy. It’s risky business for a crime fiction… Read more “Hat Tip To A Dingus”
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Discount Fever Strikes Again
Honest Jim has the fever again — discount fever. A 99 cent special on all ebook platforms for THE RIGHT WRONG NUMBER starts February 10 and runs… Read more “Discount Fever Strikes Again”
Waltz Across Texas
Check out what Texas book review ace Kevin Tipple, whose blog just won a prestigious ‘best of’ award, had to say about THE BEST LOUSY CHOICE. Then… Read more “Waltz Across Texas”
Give It Up
How can you possibly resist this much raunchy, relentless, gritty, violent, sex-laced hard-boiled fun? Truth is — you can’t. Surrender Dorothy — grab you some Ed Earl… Read more “Give It Up”
A Soldier’s Story
Check out Honest Jim’s review of Dennis Rogers’ SPIT SHINE: MUD, SWEAT, AND COMING OF AGE. It’s a marvelous book by my old journalism buddy, one of… Read more “A Soldier’s Story”
Gotham City Thriller
Check out Honest Jim’s review of Rich Zahradnik’s award-winning Coleridge Taylor mystery, Lights Out Summer: One of the great things about a Rich Zahradnik novel is his… Read more “Gotham City Thriller”
Hot Skillet Mystery
Check out Honest Jim’s advance review of Bruce Robert Coffin’s upcoming Detective Byron mystery, Within Plain Sight: Bruce Robert Coffin’s latest Detective Byron mystery, WITHIN PLAIN… Read more “Hot Skillet Mystery”
The Past Never Dies
Check out Honest Jim’s review of Howard Owen’s latest Willie Black mystery, Evergreen: If you ever worked at a newspaper, you knew a guy like Willie Black.… Read more “The Past Never Dies”
Define Your Characters with Snappy Dialogue and A Keen Sense of Place: A Guest Blog by Jim Nesbitt
Author, Jim Nesbitt I’m a Chandler junkie. As in Raymond Chandler. Always have been, always will be. One of the founding fathers of the hard-boiled school of…
Rattlesnake Praise
Humbled and honored by this nugget of high praise from fellow author Bruce Coffin, a cop’s cop and one helluva writer: “Texas tough and rattlesnake mean, Jim… Read more “Rattlesnake Praise”