Book Review: More Sherlock Holmes Pastiches By: Chris Chan New entries in the Sherlock Holmes saga have become a subgenre in themselves in crime fiction, and this review will cover some interesting new releases. Liese Sherwood-Fabre has released three books in a series of the early years of Sherlock Holmes. In her works, Sherlock is […]
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The Challenges of Storytelling
The Challenges of Storytelling By: Nev March I’m reading Chandler’s The Long Goodbye, and just like that, a line had me tearing up. What was the line? A cop tells Philip Marlowe that he’s been wasting his time trying to clear the name of his dead friend, Terry Lennox. He says, “And he wasn’t much […]
Excerpt from Kris Lackey’s Butcher Pen Road
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 […]