Independent Crime

If ever there were a book that didn't need a sequel, it's James Sallis's Drive . Short, nasty, self-contained, when Drive ended...

Don't miss this opportunity. Blasted Heath is going to be giving away Ray Banks' Dead Money tomorrow with his novella Gun as an add...

I can think of no better way to get this long moribund blog going again than with a double review of one of your favorite authors and min...

I was taking a little Amazon window shopping break when I ran across this, the yet to be released Parker: Martini Edition , which combines...

To my great horror, I came across the trailer for a remake of Straw Dogs today. I already have my issues with Peckinpah's adaptation o...

I realize anyone who has followed this blog in the past has probably assumed that I ended up dead in a ditch somewhere long ago, but the tru...

This cover for Hard Case's debut hardcover novel hit me right between the eyes.

Are you ready to read some new short stories by Dashiell Hammett? I hope so, because 15 new stories have been discovered and are set to b...

Domenic Stansberry's Noir Manifesto has made it online. I'm not sure if it's really a manifesto. It reads more like an essay, ...

So, I'm trying to get back on the reviewing and blogging wagon after having taken much needed break. While I've been away, lots of a...