Tinglers and Transgressors

The Winter 2006 edition of Spinetingler Magazine is finally available online. And is it my imagination, or are there more interviews in this issue than normal here? Editor and author (Suspicious Circumstances) Sandra Ruttan delivers a trio of talks with Mark Billingham (Buried), Duane Swierczynski (The Blonde), and the lesser-known Jess Lourey (May Day). There are also fiction pieces by J.D. Rhoades (“Behind Every Man”), Susan M. Boyer (“Hogwash”), and Bill Cameron (“A Tall House”), plus introductions to two of Ruttan’s fellow “Killer Year” authors, Sean Chercover (Big City, Bad Blood) and Marcus Sakey (The Blade Itself). If those last aren’t incestuous enough, Ruttan is interviewed in her own mag by fellow “Killer Year” founder J.T. Ellison.

Meanwhile, from across “the pond” comes the latest edition of Andy Cox’s Crimewave--slightly smaller in dimension and redesigned inside, but no less intriguing than its predecessors. Short stories this time around come from Edgar nominee Shelley Costa (“Blue Morpho”), Daniel Bennett (“You Will Be Wearing Green”), and Gary W. Shockley (“The Rainbow Girl”). Sorry, but the contents of this 160-page issue aren’t available online. Order a copy of Crimewave Nine: Transgressions from the TTA Press Web site.