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Don Bruns: Casting Bones
Coffee & Crime Fiction It was in 2014 that I first had coffee with Don Bruns. After two winter seasons in Florida, it was time to branch out and find authors from the Sunshine state. It was a good conversation about books, writing and everything in-between. Bruns kindly gave me a copy of his book…
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David Swinson: The Second Girl
Crime & fault Function & abuse A functional cocaine addict, Frank Marr was once a Washington, DC narcotics detective able to keep his secret for years. Finally caught-out, the brass decided forced retirement was the solution. The truth would bring too many problems. Working as a Private Investigator Marr supplements his habit and income, by robbing drug…
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Peace on Earth
Whatever the season Whatever the reason May the spirit of the holidays Be with you …
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What’s it all about?
Recently, I was asked by thriller writer Madeleine Callway to talk about Murder in Common on her Canadian Noir blog. It was fun to think back to when all the madness started and share why I find it rewarding. Windigo Fire Just so you know, Madeleine’s debut novel Windigo Fire was…
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Rena Olsen: The Girl Before
Happy Home Happy Life Clara is a happy wife. She and Neil live together with their daughters, on a large property, deep in a wooded area. The daughters of all ages who are brought to Clara for training. Housekeeping, manners, languages, all the necessary lessons, as they wait to be assigned to a client. Mama…
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Barry Eisler: Livia Lone
Sold Livia is a freak in the bedroom. She must have absolute control. Sometimes things work out okay. Other times she meets aggression with brutal finality. There are reasons of course. All of them understandable, none of them sustainable. In a book about loss and vengeance it’s irrelevant. Born Labee in the Lahu hill country…
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Robert Masello: The Jekyll Revelation
Jack the Ripper Jekyll and Hyde Time for confession, The Jekyll Revelation is outside the usual genre posted on Murder in Common. It’s not crime fiction, but as I enjoyed it so much, I decided to tell you about it anyway. Based on a story about Robert Louis Stephenson and his book The Strange…
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Franklin Schneider & Jennifer Schneider: Black Hills
Town of Corruption Place of Despair Alice Riley is a disgraced Brooklyn journalist turned private investigator. She came to her new profession by searching for the truth behind a story. Instead, she found self-serving justification and unemployment. She’s in the South Dakota oil fracking town of Whitehurst to investigate the arrest of a former colleague’s…
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Autumn: New season of crime fiction
Early Autumn Time for more reading Yes, the Autumn weather is here and I’m looking forward to a brand new season of crime fiction for Murder in Common. This year I decided to add an Interview page to the website. There are many authors that I speak with about their craft and it’s time…
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Summer reads
It’s now full-on summer and perhaps you need a little down time with a good book…or three…or more. I’ll let you get on with my suggested reading while I put Murder in Common on it’s summer hiatus. See you in September! How about a double dip from crime fiction author Sue Coletta: Marred Sage Quintano…
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Dot Hutchinson: The Butterfly Garden
Wings that don’t fly An enclosed garden filled with butterflies, tended by a congenial gardener. Only the butterflies are beautiful women captured and intricately tattooed. And the congeniality is the smooth mask of a psychopath. The man takes very good care of them over the years as they are there to serve his pleasure. When…
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Ilene B. Benator: Schizo – Hidden in Plain Sight
Insane asylum Two inmates: One Escape Former medical student Dan Greenberg’s life is an endless round of medications, dull food and listless, and at times, violent companions. Pretty much the norm for living in an insane asylum. He’s not supposed to be there, a victim of a set-up when he came close to exposing medical intrusion, by…
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Crime fiction: SciFi
Genre Bending & Blending – Part two Dying for a Living Talk about a book to catch your fancy, Kory Shrum brings us a near future world where people can hire a Necronite to die in their place. Jesse Sullivan is one of the best in her field. As a Necronite she will…
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Crime Fiction – Steampunk
Genre Bending Genre Blending Private Investigators are not limited to the Crime Fiction genre. They can appear in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Steampunk to name a few. Today I’m posting Part one of a series showing you a few books I really liked that have P.I.’s as the protagonist. I hope you find something…
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Steve Hamilton: The Second Life of Nick Mason
“This isn’t freedom. This is mobility. Don’t get those two things confused.” Nick Mason is under contract. No signature appears on any document. Only his word to a crime lord who arranged his freedom a few years into his 20-year sentence. He is moved into a luxury condo where, food, drink, clothing and a…