Book Chase

The subtitle to Sherlock  really says it all: "Ten New Stories. Ten Incredible Writers. The Game Is Afoot...Again."   Add the terr...

  For me, reading a Craig Johnson novel or short story is very much akin to enjoying the kind of comfort food I grew up on as a kid. After h...

  Blasphemy is a collection of thirty-one short stories written by a favorite storyteller of mine, Sherman Alexie. It should be noted, howev...

  Dear Life , published in 2012, was Alice Munro’s last book. She won the Nobel Prize the following year, becoming the first and only Canadi...

  I really enjoy short stories, and I probably read around 200 of them a year. Some are standalones culled from magazines, but most come fro...

  David Duchovny's novella  The Reservoir was originally published in 2022 but a new paperback edition, which includes the addition of a...

  As I continue to explore the thirteen 2023 Booker Prize nominees ( two of the books will not actually be published in the U.S. until after...

  Last Day on Earth , published in 2017,   is a nine-story collection from Eric Puchner that focuses on family relationships and difficult c...

  Harbor Lights , which includes seven short stories and one novella,   is the first collection of short fiction from James Lee Burke since ...

  Cleveland Noir , edited by Michael Ruhlman and Miesha Wilson Headen, is the latest in the long line of dark short story collections from A...

  I have been a fan of Lawrence Block's books for a whole lot of years, but Playing Games has somehow managed to make me appreciate him ...

  Otto Penzler's The Lineup is a fascinating look at the origin stories of more than twenty of the most popular fictional crimefighters ...

  It was really good to get a glimpse of Jimmy Perez's new lifestyle now that he's turned over the bulk of his day-to-day Shetland p...

Crime Hits Home is a nice collection of crime related short stories exploring the most jarring type of crime imaginable, those that invade a...

I love short stories for many reasons, but I particularly love them because I’ve discovered several of my favorite novelists by first readin...

In An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed , Helene Tursten provides the backstory of the 89-year-old killer she first introduced to the world i...

Like Dexter, Maud’s more famous fictional serial killer peer, Maud doesn’t kill anyone that doesn’t pretty much deserve killing. Dexter prob...

Talking about the collection of Nero Wolfe pastiches and parodies, The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe , last week reminded me of a book that ha...

My recent re-introduction to Rex Stout's terrific Nero Wolfe mysteries led me to a 2020 short story compilation with a title as long as ...

As these things work, all of the stories selected by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward for The Best American Short Stories 202...