The Rap Sheet

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...

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...

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...