Butcher Pen Road by Kris Lackey, published in 2021 The first chapter is excerpted below. Chapter 1 The boy stared at the ground as he walked out of a hackberry stand, toward Bill Maytubby’s black Chickasaw Lighthorse Police cruiser. It was parked at a closed barbed-wire gap gate under a tall homemade ranch gate. Maytubby […]
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Top 10 Seismic Twists in Contemporary Fiction
Top 10 Seismic Twists in Contemporary Fiction By: Will Dean Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane Atmospheric, poignant, claustrophobic. Lehane develops his characters so beautifully that they feel real. And then he hits you with one of the most satisfying twists ever created. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters A humdinger of a twist (in a novel […]
From Criminal Lawyer to Criminal Writer
From Criminal Lawyer to Criminal Writer By: Nadine Matheson I can always hear Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad in my head whenever someone asks me what I do for a living. ” You don’t want a criminal lawyer. You want a “criminal lawyer.” It makes me laugh, but I can read the looks that spread […]