Crime

Cleveland Noir: Dark Fiction from Around the City

by Stephen S | Oct 5, 2023 | Adult, Crime, Fiction, Matchmakers

For a number of years now, book publisher Akashic Books has been publishing collections of noir fiction short stories set in cities around the...

YA Psychological Thriller with a twist!

by Amanie M | Aug 9, 2023 | Crime, Matchmakers, Teens, Thrillers

Have you ever thought about what a crossover between Criminal Minds and Silence of the Lambs, but with teenage protagonists, would look like? Well,...

Weird Fiction Spotlight: Caitlín R. Kiernan

by Stephen S | May 18, 2022 | Adult, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Folklores/Myths, Horror, Matchmakers, Sci-Fi, Thrillers

Weird Fiction is a difficult genre to describe, but you know it when you read it. Stories that get categorized as Weird Fiction often take place in...

Beware of Scrabble Playing Argentines in Blimps

by Stephen S | Apr 8, 2021 | Adult, Crime, Drama, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Matchmakers

A short history lesson: poker began to be televised in the late 1990s. What was once a card game played in casinos and at family card tables was now...

John le Carre and the CIA

by Stephen S | Dec 16, 2020 | Adult, Crime, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Matchmakers, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Thrillers

John le Carre, the master of espionage fiction, died this past weekend. A former MI5 and MI6 spy for Britain, his novels showed the solitary,...

Classic Films: Rashomon

by Stephen S | Oct 21, 2020 | Adult, Classics, Crime, Drama, Fiction, Matchmakers, Mystery, Thrillers

I know we normally talk about books on this blog, but the book I was going to write about this week is not widely available at the moment, so...

Current Obsession: Sally Hepworth

by Amia W | Apr 30, 2020 | Adult, Crime, Drama, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Matchmakers

Have you ever started reading an author, really loved that author's work, and decided to just read through all of their novels? That's what has...

Another Thought on Audiobooks

by Stephen S | Oct 30, 2019 | Adult, Crime, Folklores/Myths, History, Memoir, Mystery, Thrillers

Inspired by Greg’s excellent post about how great audiobooks are (you should read his post if you haven't already), I figured I’d chime in with my...

American Tabloid: Greed, Ambition, and American History

by Stephen S | Aug 21, 2019 | Adult, Crime, Historical Fiction, Matchmakers, Mystery, Thrillers

James Ellroy’s American Tabloid (Overdrive Ebook) is a relentless, character-driven story set between Nov. 22, 1958, and Nov. 22, 1963, right up to...