Archive for: July 2005

A few days ago Ray posted the playlist he listened to while writing his new novel Wolf Tickets. On the list: “I Fought The Law” by Colin Farrell. As it happens, I had just downloaded the …

Despite the fact that I love hard-edged crime films, I am, as Captain Renault might say, a rank sentimentalist. Thus I found it getting quite dusty last night as my wife, kids, and I watched The Sound Of …

The ol’ blogroll has fallen on hard times. Once again, Sean Doolittle has started skipping months - last year came up 2 or 3 short of the regulation 12 - with June already down the dumper, and July …

Pat Lambe has a new story in Crime Scene Scotland, called “Parking Violation”. It’s a good story and I encourage you to go read it. Right now.

You’re back? Good. When I was reading this …

Okay, Gerald So has lured me out of grumpy lurkdom by tagging me with the latest meme, so let’s go:

(1) Imagine it’s 2015. You are visiting the library at a major research university. You go over to a computer …