From the Private Eye Writers of America The list of finalists for the 2026 Shamus Awards, for works first published in the U.S. in 2025, have just been released. The winners will be announced at th…

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In the 1980s, of course, we had the original TV show starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as hip Miami detectives “Sonny” Crockett and “Rico” Tubbs. As exhaustively detailed by roughly a …

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Javier Hernandez was ready to testify against two other men involved in a Southern California meth trafficking operation. But six months before trial, ICE deported him without notifying federal prosec...

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Donald Westlake, using the pseudonym Richard Stark, published 24 books starring Parker, a master thief who plows through trouble with the steely efficiency of a bandsaw. A handful of those novels w…

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Nick Kolakowski leads a Rock and a Hard Place Press course on using research in fiction. 3.15 - 4.12. Live Zoom + Discord. $200.

WSJ tech columnist Christopher Mims discusses his new book, debunks “vibe coding” hype, and explains why the tireless nature of AI makes it an indispensable tool.

Nick Kolakowski leads a Rock and a Hard Place Press course on using research in fiction. 3.15 - 4.12. Live Zoom + Discord. $200.

In the early nineties I lived for several years in Vientiane, the sun bleached, run down, quasi-communist capital of what was then one of the more remote countries in Asia – actually, it probably stil...

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