The Best Lists of 2013 … or 1976

The end of the year always brings us plenty of lists. Nowadays, with the advent of social media, the lists are more personalized, specialized: My favorite reads of 2013, my favorite movies of 2013, my favorite celebrity nip-slips, corporate mergers, whatever. Numerous requests on Facebook to name the ten books that stuck with me left […]

Dealer Sets Price (availible in Otto Penzler’s Kwik Krimes)

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Inaugural Blog

So, I’ve done it. I’ve entered the blogosphere, finding myself in a place I never thought I’d be. When I think about bloggers, I picture angry politicos spouting their tired and borrowed opinions on subjects I’ve never cared about—guys in sweatpants railing against Obamacare (or for Obamacare) in the quiet of a messy hotel room […]