Kevin's Corner

The mind can be a tricky thing. The name of someone you just met might escape your remembrance while at the same time the name of some clas...

Adolescence is a hard perplexing time ripe with strange thoughts, strange feelings, and impetuous actions with little consideration of the c...

This latest Kevin Kerney novel finds Kerney and his family at a cross roads. The Santa Fe Police chief knows that his current lifestyle is n...

Texas has a long history of very wealthy landowners controlling not just their land, but the way of life for the local people in the area. ...

Building upon the series that began in “Tonight, I Said Goodbye” author Koryta brings back private investigators Lincoln Perry and his partn...

Sometimes that moment, that tipping point, where everything begins to go inexorably downhill is obvious. Sometimes it isn’t. For Nick Cono...

Its been a rough stretch. The computer blew up, the wife has been in the hospital, and lots of other stuff that wasn't much fun. But, th...

Its ugly and painful. Monday evening my computer died in a flash of light and a puff of smoke. It is no more. Thanks to filters at my local ...

Kevin’s Corner Well, it has been awhile, hasn’t it? It wasn’t exactly my plan to disappear from these parts for all intents and purposes for...

Warren Ritter returns in the sequel to “Eight Of Swords” and like any really good sequel, it is always better to have read the first book. I...

Kevin’s Corner I know better. I should be working on my own stuff. I have the support of a great group that I meet with every month and righ...

Kevin’s Corner Is it just me? I ask because the last week has seen a succession of strange events in my online world. I’m not really mad at ...

Kevin’s Corner One of the things I have noticed about my local paper is that book coverage continues to shrink and shrink. With every design...

Kevin’s Corner “Yeah, Wendell said. I guess you ought to be careful cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably aint no luck in...

Kevin’s Corner It’s been a little over a month since my last column bemoaning the fact that my fiction still isn’t selling. Since then I don...

It’s been a little over a year now since we started sharing this space, you and I. Where has all the time gone? Another Halloween has passed...

The dark side of technology is often reported in the day’s news. The modern problem of identify theft was a topic long ago covered in class...

One of the things I have noticed lately is the number of books using food directly as a murder weapon or serving as a backdrop to crime, mur...

Last time in this space I wrote about how some series seem to slowly crash and burn. That the series runs out of steam and should be ended b...

Kevin’s Corner Sometimes it seems as if a series begins to crash and burn on itself. What used to be funny or at worst mildly amusing become...