My review of Duane Swierczynski's excellent The Wheelman ran earlier this week in the Philadelphia Inquirer. I've talked about the book before, but this is my formal take on it. Obviously, I liked it a lot.
There are a slew of new reviews over on Mystery Ink, including several UK books critiqued by Fiona Walker, plus a review of Randall Hicks' The Baby Game by Yvette Banek.
On the novel (and Bet) front, I have modest progress to report. I'm up to 50,000 words, so it's a little more than half done. I think Guyot's written "Once upon a time..." but that's about it.
In other writing news, the short story anthology that Guyot and I are putting together now officially has an agent representing it. Considering that Ken Bruen has already written his story (and yes, it's excellent), I hope we're able to place the book somewhere.
I started reading debut thrillers for the ITW Awards. (I'm one of the judges for Best First Novel.) I've plowed through about 8 so far. I'm probably not supposed to comment on them publicly, so I won't say much. It hasn't been the strongest year for debuts, though, I'm sorry to say.
That's it for now. Let me know if there are any books I need to read or authors I need to write about. I'm always looking for good ideas to steal.
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