We were beyond thrilled to hear that Karin Slaughter’s propulsive story “The Unremarkable Heart” won Best Short Story at last week’s Edgar Awards. This story appears in our anthology, Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance, which is just out in paperback. In the spirit of Short Story Month—which is, you guessed it, May—we’d like to [...]
Category Archive for ‘Fiction’ 
Thomas De Quincey and Murder as a Fine Art: A Conversation with David Morrell and Robert Morrison
Apr 29, 2013 in Fiction, Mulholland Authors
Robert Morrison: I love the idea behind Murder as a Fine Art. John Williams commits a series of sensational killings in 1811. Thomas De Quincey writes his most powerful essay about the killings in 1854. Somebody reads De Quincey on Williams and decides to produce his own version of the killings, far exceeding them in [...]
Fact and Fiction in Hunt the Scorpion
Feb 19, 2013 in Books, Fiction, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors, Writing
On sale today is Hunt the Scorpion, the second installment in Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo’s SEAL Team Six series, which follows the trail of nuclear weapon components from a ship commandeered by Somali pirates through Libya and into a hornet’s nest of local police forces, terrorists, and the Iranian Revolutionary Corps. The book’s depiction [...]
Start Reading Hit Me
Feb 12, 2013 in Excerpts, Fiction, Mulholland Authors
Lawrence Block’s Keller thriller HIT ME, praised in starred reviews by Booklist as “delightful,” by Library Journal as “Block at the top of his form,” and Publishers Weekly as “highly enjoyable”, hits bookstores today! Can’t wait to get started on Larry’s latest and greatest? Start reading right here. Keller limited himself to monosyllables en route [...]
Detective John Rebus: Twenty-Five Years Later
Jan 22, 2013 in Books, Fiction, Writing
Twenty-five years will take its toll on anyone. No one knows this better than former detective John Rebus, the star of Ian Rankin’s dazzling crime novels, who now finds himself a retired civilian, peering at cases from the outside. But even the passage of years can’t bring closure to a cold case, and Rebus has [...]
Ernest Hemingway and Other Literary Spies
Jan 15, 2013 in Books, Fiction
In Dan Simmons’s The Crook Factory, which is out in paperback on February 5th, Ernest Hemingway assembles an espionage ring from an unlikely team of misfits in order to root out Nazi infiltrators in Cuba. Though this storyline is, regrettably, a work of fiction, there are plenty of writers who really were spies. Some of [...]
Start Reading Breed by Chase Novak
Aug 27, 2012 in Excerpts, Fiction, Mulholland Authors, Uncategorized
Next month we publish the hotly anticipated horror novel from Chase Novak, the pseudonymous debut of Scott Spencer’s alter ego hailed by Stephen King as “The best horror novel I’ve read since Peter Straub’s Ghost Story…by turns terrifying and blackly funny…a total blast.” Copies are already on their way to bookstores–but you can start the [...]
Start Reading Dare Me
Aug 01, 2012 in Excerpts, Fiction
This week, Megan Abbott’s DARE ME, an O Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday and Wall Street Journal Summer Reading pick, arrives at bookstores across the nation. Start reading the book that led Daniel Woodrell proclaim: ”Abbott has become expert at revealing truths we thought we knew but didn’t, delivered in prose that is by turns elegant and incantatory.” “Something happened, Addy. I think you [...]
