Category: Mystery/Detective Fiction/Crime Fiction/Thriller

1. Someone in IRC just pointed me at ShadowPDF.net, a collection of classic pulps of The Shadow. Takes me back to when I was a kid and listened to the radio shows on tape/radio . . . too cool.

2. Update on Hostage. I was very tempted to pull an all nighter for this one. It’s very different in flavor and pacing than the Elvis Cole series. I’ve stopped missing them, and have been drawn into Chief Tulley’s world. The set up Crais creates in the first hundred pages or so is brilliant. This is all going to go horribly, horribly bad. Which means it will be incredibly fun to read. Only question is how dark Crais will let it go . . . .

my guess is very.

Started Robert Crais’ Hostage last night. I didn’t get very far into it before my arch-nemesis, Sleep, won another round in our ongoing battle.

First stand-alone novel I’ve read by him. I can already tell I’m going to miss Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. Not that it’s a bad book–but any novel that opens up with a double-murder/suicuide could really use some old friends in it to help you cope, y’know?

Ohh, while writing this I read that the movie based on this book started filming a couple of weeks ago. Bruce Willis stars. That could be cool….