by vjbooks | Apr 7, 2010 | We're Talking Books!
Brilliant criminal writer Ace Atkins is the April 2010 Favorite Author at VJ Books. Before turning to writing full time, Atkins worked as a crime reporter in the newsroom of The Tampa Tribune for several years. Here he earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination and Livingston...
by vjbooks | Feb 19, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Feb. 9) The 1921 rape/manslaughter trial of silent film star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle provides the gritty backdrop for Atkins’s outstanding crime novel, in which Dashiell Hammett, then a Pinkerton operative living in San Francisco,...
by vjbooks | Feb 16, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Hello again~ You’ll want to check out our recent notice – Nearly 25 years ago we first met Alex Delaware, and he returns in his 23rd mystery in Jonathan Kellerman’s True Detectives. Walter Mosley launches what promises to be his best series since...
