Today at the blog, I take a look at Simon Brett's clever mystery short, "How is Your Mother?". A tale that first appeared in 1980 (in the UK) and in the Oct. 1983 issue of EQMM in the US. Check it out here: gravetapping.blogspot.com/2025/07/revi...
What? A TV review at the blog today? No--there are three tv reviews at the blog today. We take a look at Your Friends & Neighbors (AppleTV+), Loudermilk, and Paranoid (Netflix). Check it out here: gravetapping.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-tr...
At. The. Blog. Today. How's that for building suspense? Check out this sleek line from David Housewright's WHAT THE DEAD LEAVE BEHIND (2017). I liked it, and I bet you will too: gravetapping.blogspot.com/2025/07/pass...
In the late-80s and early-90s, mystery writer Ed Gorman collaborated with "demonologists" Ed & Lorraine Warren on four books about the paranormal. One of these, THE HAUNTED (1988), was made into a solid tv movie. Read the complete story here: gravetapping.blogspot.com/2025/06/ed-g...
My Minotaur Books reading adventure continues with Douglas Corleone's NIGHT ON FIRE (2011). This legal thriller, set on Oahu, is a terrifically entertaining mystery with a solid setting and a wonderfully ethically challenged hero. Read my review here: gravetapping.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi...
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If you're a consistent reader of the blog, you know I love David Housewright's McKenzie books. THEM BONES, the latest in the series (and due out tomorrow), is a little different from the series norm, but... Well, check out my review here: gravetapping.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi...
Renaissance man, Mike Baker, waxes poetic (and critically) about Raymond Chandler's final Philip Marlowe novel, PLAYBACK (1958). This essay--I hesitate to simply call it a critical review because, well...--from Mike is a must read. Check it out here: darkcityunderground.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi...
Live at the blog: a profile of actor, Lee Majors, from the February 19, 1966, issue of TV Guide. At the time, Majors was starring in the western, The Big Valley, and I tell you he didn't lack for confidence. Check it out here... gravetapping.blogspot.com/2025/06/lee-...
Riding high at the blog today with an old review made new: Bari Wood's THE TRIBE. Originally published in 1981, and republished in 2019 after its inclusion in PAPERBACKS FROM HELL, this old school horror novel is a blast. Read the review here... gravetapping.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi...
It's a brand new month, which means my latest Booked (and Printed)" column is live. This time I look at KISS, by John Lutz, ROBAK'S FIRE, by Joe L. Hensley, THE DEEP BLUE GOOD-BY, by John D. MacDonald, and more than a few others. Check it out here... darkcityunderground.blogspot.com/2025/06/book...
Mary Dixie Carter's second novel, MARGUERITE BY THE LAKE--a marvelous gothic thriller--hits the streets tomorrow, May 20. But you can read my review right now, today, at the blog. darkcityunderground.blogspot.com/2025/05/revi...
Paul Doiron's SKIN AND BONES collects eight Mike Bowditch stories; the tales range from shorts to novellas, from Bowditch's perspective to his friend and mentor Charlie Stevens's. Scheduled for release May 13--read my review now: darkcityunderground.blogspot.com/2025/05/revi...
A new "Booked (and Printed)" is live at the blog. This month I look at seven novels and a couple short stories, including detailed reviews of JELLY'S GOLD, by David Housewright, Stephen King's THINNER, and THE DEVIL'S RIGHT HAND, by J.D. Rhoades. darkcityunderground.blogspot.com/2025/05/book...
Monday means the hard work goes on. But today, Mike Baker, gives us a clear-eyed, raucous, and meaningful review of Elmer Kelton's 1956 novel, BUFFALO WAGONS. Read it here... darkcityunderground.blogspot.com/2025/05/revi...
A new week, and a gently used review at the blog. Today I dust off a review (from 2017) of Garry Disher's excellent procedural, CHAIN OF EVIDENCE (2007). As they say, it just may be new to you. Check it out here... darkcityunderground.blogspot.com/2025/04/revi...
Is true crime your beat? Then this review of Thibault Raisse's THE CLEVELAND JOHN DOE CASE (Crime Ink, 2025) is right up your alley. Check it out here... darkcityunderground.blogspot.com/2025/04/revi...
There is a new "Booked (and Printed)" at the blog. This month I look at John Keyse-Walker's PALMS, PARADISE, POISON (2021); Douglas Corleone's first novel, ONE MAN’S PARADISE (2010); Joyce Carol Oates's BLACK WATER (1992); and other miscellany. darkcityunderground.blogspot.com/2025/04/book...
It's been quiet around here the past week or so. But a new post went live at the blog this morning. It's a little something about the handful of books that joined my personal stacks this past month. It's called WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? Check it out here: darkcityunderground.blogspot.com/2025/03/what...
