This week, Bookgasm gave an excellent review of the new reprint of prolific crime writer Frederick Lorenz’s (aka Lorenz Heller) collection A Rage at Sea and A Party Every Night. These two uniquely … Read More ›
Recently, Alan Cranis of Bookgasm gave a rave review of The Tooth and the Nail and The Wife of the Red-Haired Man by Bill S. Ballinger, reissued as a double … Read More ›
“Frederick Lorenz was the pseudonym used by Lorenz Heller (1911-????) for a handful of paperback crime novels released by Lion Books in the 1950s. The New Jersey native worked as … Read More ›
Last year, in The Week magazine, internationally bestselling American crime writer James Ellroy shared his six favorite books. One of them was Portrait in Smoke by Bill S. Ballinger. He … Read More ›
We’ve nominated the following piece for the 2021 volume of The Best American Mystery Stories. This yearly anthology of mystery stories published in United States magazines and anthologies was started in 1997 … Read More ›
“In this epic story of love and friendship, war and savagery, courage and survival, award-winning historical fiction writer Sheldon Russell spirits the reader to a perilous post-Civil War period where … Read More ›
We’ve nominated these pieces for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s annual Best American anthology series: The Best American Short Stories: “Hippasus of Metapontum” by Robert Perron “Mr. O’Brien’s Last Soliloquy” by Robert Garner McBrearty … Read More ›
“In this supremely entertaining volume of short stories, prizewinning micro-fiction maestro, Robert Garner McBrearty, teacher of fiction at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop North in Louisville, Colorado, stirs and startles and … Read More ›
The latest volume in the Lowestoft Chronicle Anthology Series, The Vicarious Traveler, is published this month. This, the ninth collection, features work by: Philip Barbara, Elaine Barnard, Douglas Cole, Michael … Read More ›
“The latest hardboiled double header from Stark House features two gripping tales from Dolores Hitchens, with an introduction by Nicholas Litchfield. Hitchens’ work is incredibly varied but consistent when it … Read More ›