Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Overlooked TV: Harlan Coben's The Five

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Overlooked TV: Harlan Coben's The Five: Okay, I know it's brand new to the U.S., but how many of you have seen it?  I don't see a lot of mentions of it, so I thought maybe ...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Down to No Good -- Eric Javorsky

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Down to No Good -- Eric Javorsky: When Down to No Good opens, private-eye Charlie Miner is dead.  This might not be easy for anybody else to overcome, but it's not too...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Bonus FFB on Wednesday: The Winter Is Past -- Harry Whittington

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Bonus FFB on Wednesday: The Winter Is Past -- Harr...: The Winter Is Past is likely the most forgotten book ever posted about.  Whittington researcher and expert Rick Ollerman found the manuscri...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Files of the Star Republic -- Terence Faherty

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Files of the Star Republic -- Terence Faherty: This is the second collection of Terence Faherty's stories about odd happenings in and around Indianapolis as recorded by the Star Repub...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: FFB: Desert Stake-Out -- Harry Whittington

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: FFB: Desert Stake-Out -- Harry Whittington: I read Desert Stake-Out  long ago in the Gold Medal paperback edition, and I remembered it as being an excellent western.  Rereading it in...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Torn & Restored -- Austin Williams

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Torn & Restored -- Austin Williams: Rusty Diamond, former stage magician, left Las Vegas after a trick goes terribly wrong at the birthday party of the daughter of a well-known...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: The Spook Lights Affair -- Marcia Muller & Bill Pr...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: The Spook Lights Affair -- Marcia Muller & Bill Pr...: I enjoy the cases of John Quincannon and Sabina Carpenter in both short story and novel form.  The setting of San Francisco in the Gilded Ag...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Coco Butternut -- Joe R. Lansdale

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Coco Butternut -- Joe R. Lansdale: Coco Butternut  is a novella, or maybe it's a novelette (I'm confused about those terms) that brings back Hap and Leonard in anoth...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Leadfoot -- Eric Beetner

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Leadfoot -- Eric Beetner: Leadfoot is a prequel to Beetner's Rumrunners .  It's set in 1971, and Calvin McGraw is the leadfoot of the title, a driver with ti...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: All the Little Liars -- Charlaine Harris

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: All the Little Liars -- Charlaine Harris: Aurora Teagarden is back, and things seem to be going well for her.  She's married to best-selling writer Robin Crusoe, she's pregna...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: “The Magical Mystery Book Tour” (by Jenny Milchman)

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: “The Magical Mystery Book Tour” (by Jenny Milchman...: “The Magical Mystery Book Tour” (by Jenny Milchman) | SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN : Jenny Milchman’s first professional publication was in ...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Shot in Detroit -- Patti Abbott

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Shot in Detroit -- Patti Abbott: Violet Hart is a photographer.  She has artistic aspirations, but mostly she shoots weddings and bar mitzvahs to survive.  She can't fin...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Writing the Second Novel -- Patti Abbott

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Writing the Second Novel -- Patti Abbott: Writing the Second Novel -- Patti Abbott  Shot in Detroit was actually the first novel I wrote. It's the story of a female photographe...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Mad Dog Barked -- Rick Ollerman

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Mad Dog Barked -- Rick Ollerman: Rick Ollerman just keeps on getting better.   Mad Dog Barked  is a  Florida private-eye novel, but it's not about a lone wolf.  Scott Po...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: The Big Showdown -- Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: The Big Showdown -- Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Co...: The Big Showdown  is a direct sequel to Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins' The Legend of Caleb York , which I wrote about here .  Yo...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Free for Kindle for a Limited Time for Today Only

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Free for Kindle for a Limited Time for Today Only: The Shallows - Kindle edition by Nigel Bird. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.   Lieutenant Bradley Heap has gone...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Traveling the Chisholm Trail

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Traveling the Chisholm Trail: Traveling the Chisholm Trail : History, legacy and legend come to life in the Lone Star State.

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: FFB: Quarry's Vote -- Max Allan Collins

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: FFB: Quarry's Vote -- Max Allan Collins: In his "Afterword" for Quarry's Vote , Max Allan Collins says that the Quarry books "sank like a stone" on their ori...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Backshot -- Ed Gorman

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Backshot -- Ed Gorman: The title page of this novel reads Backshot: 1902, but the cover doesn't.  Not that it matters.  It's all the same book.   However,...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Doc Savage: The Secret of Satan's Spine -- Kenneth...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Doc Savage: The Secret of Satan's Spine -- Kenneth...: The one thing I'd like to see more of in Will Murray's new series of "the All-New Wild Adventures of Doc Savage" is a page...