The Rap Sheet

• Earlier this month, I noted that among the authors whose work I read for the first time in 2020 were Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz, w...

• In late August, Rap Sheet contributor Steven Nester wrote a review of the “forgotten” 1999 neo-noir novel East of A , Russell Atwood’s f...

• With so much news about crime-fiction prizes coming out of late, it’s been difficult to keep up with it all. For instance, organizers of ...

This is definitely not the sort of news I expected to be waking up to on Thanksgiving morning. From The Guardian : P.D. James , Lady James...

Last November, when actor Larry Hagman died at age 81, I went looking for a particular monthly publication I’d remembered saving: the Septe...

This news release from U.S. publisher Alfred A. Knopf brings word of a novel that you might not expect to receive from 91-year-old P.D. Jame...

(Editor’s note: This is the 111th installment of our ongoing Friday blog series highlighting great but forgotten books. Today’s pick comes ...

It was on this day, in 1920, that now-celebrated crime-fictionist P.D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James) was born at Oxford, England. She has s...