The Rap Sheet

13/08/2025

The Rap Sheet's latest wrap-up of crime-fiction-oriented news includes notes about this week's Charlie Chan celebration, more Ned Kelly Award shortlists, the latest edition of Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine, and more! https://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/08/bullet-points-seeking-sanity-edition.html

13/08/2025

"There really is nothing but murder in that building! The trailer is here!"

I’m tempted to begin every piece I write, lately, with “I’m tired, you’re tired…” but this time, I have some news that might help! The busybody residents of the …

04/08/2025

Jerry House reminds us that it was 133 years ago today that Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother were found brutally murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts, home. https://jerryshouseofeverything.blogspot.com/2025/08/lizzie.html

02/08/2025

The Rap Sheet's latest wrap-up of crime-fiction-oriented news includes notes about the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards, the scriptwriter of Amazon's first James Bond film, a new BBC/BritBox series starring Golden Age authors, and a new TV adaptation of Elizabeth George’s best-selling Inspector Lynley novels. https://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/08/short-subjects.html

01/08/2025

"[T]he novel most readers likely associate [Chuck] Hogan with is 'Prince of Thieves' (2004), a propulsive heist narrative that was extremely Boston — the gang plans to rob Fenway Park as their biggest score, after all — and the source material for the extremely entertaining 2010 film 'The Town.' It’s also about teamwork and friendship and betrayal and internal conflicts, themes that play out in perhaps Hogan’s most surprising project yet.

"When I first learned of 'The Carpool Detectives,' out this week, I got very excited — Chuck Hogan traveling to the nonfiction side of the aisle? A story of four California moms, looking for an outlet for their existential frustrations, banding together to solve a murder and actually succeeding?

"This was a wild story, and I ripped through the book in a single rush. I also knew I had to find out about how and why Hogan embarked on this particular story and what he took away from the experience of getting inside the heads of Marissa, Jeannie, Samira, and Nicole, the amateur crime-solving foursome."

Dear TCL Readers: Chuck Hogan has been a mainstay of crime and thriller fiction for three decades, debuting with The Standoff (1995) and making a more...

31/07/2025

"This is the last of half a dozen novels to feature Brad Dolan, Bill Fuller’s 'hard-boiled adventurer, smuggler and wanderer,' described by The Thrilling Detective Web Site as 'a sort of pre-Travis McGee Travis McGee and certainly no stranger to trouble. Or violence. Or babes.'”

Tight Squeeze , by William Fuller (Dell, 1960). This is the last of half a dozen novels to feature Brad Dolan , Bill Fuller’s “hard-boile...

30/07/2025

"New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers."

Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Steve Berry, The List (Grand Central) “Someone given the pages without knowing the author’s identity would neve…

30/07/2025

Among the most interesting recent crime and thriller releases are works by Alan Parks, Denise Mina, Dan Fesperman, Lindsey Davis, Steve Cavanagh, and Megan Miranda.

Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more. ...

28/07/2025

From the Web site Inverse: "In 1955, a highly esteemed actor tried his hand behind the camera. The result is a lush, haunting thriller inspired by the silent film era. But a middling box office reception kept him from directing another film. However, like rock bands inspired by The Velvet Underground, this movie may not have found commercial success, but it managed to influence an entire generation of artists, from Spike Lee to the Coen Brothers to Ari Aster. It may not have sparked its own director’s career, but it will never be forgotten."

An iconic actor's only foray into directing is one of the most haunting and influential movies in cinema history.

23/07/2025

Stephen Booth's Cooper and Fry novels are being adapted for the UK's Channel 5 TV!
https://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/07/booths-coppers-win-screen-time.html

23/07/2025

From Crime Fiction Lover: "Alan Parks begins a new historical crime series set in World War II Glasgow with Gunner.
https://crimefictionlover.com/2025/07/gunner-by-alan-parks/
What a read!"

Alan Parks begins a new historical crime series set in World War II Glasgow with Gunner.
https://crimefictionlover.com/2025/07/gunner-by-alan-parks/
What a read!