Calling Michael Crichton multi-talented is like calling a Stradivarius a fiddle. The man graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, he lectured in anthropology at Cambridge, he was a doctor, he… Read the rest of the article: Michael Crichton and the Doppleganger (plus exclusive excerpt from early Crichton crime novel)

In 2012, Hard Case Crime published Ariel S. Winter’s first novel, The Twenty Year Death, to unprecedented acclaim. In a full-page review, the New York Times called it “extraordinary,” “ambitious”… Read the rest of the article: Twenty Year Death republished as 3 period paperbacks

Charles Ardai looks to the past, and past angry internet message boards, to find something worth cherishing in a new novel.