The Rap Sheet

Trying to compete with Jim Winter’s video dispatches from Bouchercon 40 would be a fool’s task, so this Rap Sheet correspondent will go wit...

Philadelphia resident Duane Swiersczynski, author of the Barry Award-nominated Severance Package and the co-author (with CSI creator Antho...

During the Shamus Awards banquet on Friday night, Michael Ayoob won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin’s First Novel Contest for...

Together with her husband, novelist Max Allan Collins (who, she says, is usually off writing “nasty stuff”), Barbara Collins pens an antiqu...

With the assistance of author and toastmaster S.J. Rozan (pictured below), who turned out to be far funnier than most people had expected, ...

Robert J. Randisi, founder of the Private Eye Writers of America , talks about a major surprise he got during this year’s Shamus Awards pres...

Money Shot author Christa Faust talks about lack of sleep, noir, getting a date, and her Tartan ninja agent.

The prolific Max Allan Collins dishes the dirt on his long-awaited next private eye Nathan Heller novel, Bye Bye, Baby , and the truth abou...

The vintage Cadillac that ferried guests to tonight’s party The ducat (as Dashiell Hammett might say) to the coolest party at Bouchercon on...

(Editor’s note: Southern California author Jeri Westerson not only attended tonight’s Shamus Awards banquet in Indianapolis, but she ranke...

Tonight’s presentation of the 2009 Shamus Awards brought a few surprises, one of which was certainly the second-in-a-row win by Reed Farrel...

Simon Wood , author of the forthcoming workplace thriller Terminated , talks about that novel as well as a new car-racing mystery series he ...

New York resident Tom Schreck , author of the Duffy Dumbrowski series , talks with us about his forthcoming novel ( Out Cold ), terrorism an...

J.A. Konrath , aka Jack Kilborn , author of the Jack Daniels series, explains the single most important reason for coming to Bouchercon in I...

Jon Jordan is the co-publisher, with his wife, Ruth, of Crimespree Magazine , an Anthony Award-winning journal of crime fiction, author inte...

Editor’s note: The Rap Sheet has several people on hand covering Bouchercon 2009 . Among them is author, blogger , and late-life student Jim...

I was in my car, picking up some groceries from my local Safeway, when correspondent Ali Karim called in from Indianapolis to announce tonig...

As most readers of this blog surely know, the 40th Bouchercon World Mystery Convention begins this Thursday in Indianapolis, Indiana. Unfor...