That’s the title of a nice article on CNN.com about Hard Case Crime, which seems to have been prompted by Stephen King’s return to the bestseller list with The Colorado Kid. There were a few hysterical errors – the “reprinted” one of Domenic Stansberry’s “decades-old” novels (which first saw print last year), Wade Miller is a guy (actually a pen name of a pair), Black Lizard is an imprint created by Vintage in the early ’90s (they date at least to the ’80s, and I think the line predates Vintage’s involvement).

But as the article says, “That’s worth a drink. Straight up.”

An added bonus – the distinctive Hard Case spine makes it easy to spot their books on the shelves of the local Half Price Books, where I picked up Branded Woman this past weekend.