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THE LONG-AGO DEAD Is Available Now!
My latest pulp-noir thriller, The Long-Ago Dead, is officially published today, and I hope you'll give it a shot. The Long-Ago Dead is a departure in style for me. Whereas my most recent crime novels Loser Baby and Tessa Goes Down adhered to a sorta loose, smart-ass,...
Review: “Sugar on the Bones” by Joe R. Lansdale
Joe R. Lansdale has been crankin' out Hap & Leonard stories for 34 years. Let that sink in! It was 1990 when I first picked up Savage Season, a nasty little paperback thriller with one of the coolest cover paintings I'd ever seen. Heck, you're a Lansdale nut, so...
Review: “Joe Hustle” by Richard Lange
There's a type of crime story that's simply a great "hang." In the film world, that definition would apply to Quentin Tarantino's recent Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which was more about its characters, actor Rick Dalton and stuntman Cliff Booth, and its vivid...
An Interview with Duane Swierczynski, Philly/Cali Maestro of Pedal-to-the-Metal Crime Fiction
Duane Swierczinski has quietly, humbly put together a hell of a career in modern crime fiction. Despite (or thanks to) a tongue-twister surname that always requires concentration to spell out, he's navigated his way through multiple genres and fiction/nonfiction...
Review: “California Bear” by Duane Swierczynski
Sometimes an author bursts onto the scene, and you're hooked immediately. My first Duane Swierczynski book was The Wheelman, which I discovered on the New Fiction shelves at the Tattered Cover in Denver. On the back cover, I read several enthusiastic blurbs from some...
Review: “Dark Ride” by Lou Berney
I was loitering at my local Barnes & Noble one day, just wandering, waiting for inspiration to strike. There were a few tables I liked to visit first upon any visit to the bookstore—chiefly, the new fiction arrivals—and I moseyed on over there. An unassuming trade...
An Interview with Lou Berney, Chronicler of Heartland Crime
When did you read your first Lou Berney book? Maybe you've been there from the beginning, when he kickstarted his career with a New Yorker short-work sale followed by the release of his strong collection of stories, The Road to Bobby Joe. Or perhaps you started with...
Going BACK TO THE DIRT with Frank Bill: An Interview
I remember when I first spotted Frank Bill's debut story collection Crimes in Southern Indiana on the New Release table at my favorite local bookstore—that stark cover art, that sepia photo of the burned-out car, that scrawled title treatment. On the back, that...
Review: “Everybody Knows” by Jordan Harper
Jordan Harper is one of those authors for whom you can pinpoint exactly the first time you encountered him. For me, it was back in 2017, when I plucked his debut novel She Rides Shotgun off the Barnes & Noble shelf and began reading—and kept reading, line after...
An Interview with Jordan Harper, Dark Poet of SoCal
If you're like most readers, you first encountered the fiction of Jordan Harper in his gritty, affecting debut novel, She Rides Shotgun. It's one of those crime novels you might call a slow grower—finding modest initial success and then gradually accumulating...
Bio
Jason Bovberg is the author of Tessa Goes Down, Loser Baby, the Blood trilogy—Blood Red, Draw Blood, and Blood Dawn—and The Naked Dame. His forthcoming books include A Small Poisonous Act, a suburban noir novel, and Little Miss Nobody, a mystery based on a true crime. He is editor/publisher of Dark Highway Press, which published the controversial, erotic fairy tale Santa Steps Out and the weird western anthology Skull Full of Spurs. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife Barb, his daughters Harper and Sophie, and his canines Rocky and Rango.
‘Blood Red’ Book Trailer