Mulholland Books is looking for English and writing students to contribute writing to Triggers Down, a social writing project that will be a testament to writers building off of other writers’ work to create bigger and better stories. The goal is to create a 100-paragraph crime story. Here’s how it works: Mulholland Books will assign [...]
Tag Archive for ‘crime fiction’ 
If I’m Dead: An Excerpt
Apr 04, 2012 in Excerpts, Fiction, Mulholland Authors
Excited for next month’s publication of the anticipated return of Rachel Knight GUILT BY DEGREES? Get ready with Marcia Clark’s new Rachel Knight short story IF I’M DEAD, an excerpt of which follows. Damp, salty ocean air is hell on everything. Especially evidence. If we hadn’t lucked out and found the car so fast, we’d never [...]
Blood, Kin and Structure: A Conversation between Andrew Vachss and Joe R. Lansdale
Mar 27, 2012 in Guest Posts
Joe Lansdale: First of all, I love this new book, That’s How I Roll, by Andrew. And I was telling him this, in an earlier conversation, that I never read any of his books so terrifically well constructed. They all are, but man, this was is like a bomb builder putting something together very, very [...]
TORSO Revisited
Mar 19, 2012 in Comic Books, Excerpts, Writing
Earlier this month, Marvel reintroduced a refreshed and reformatted edition of the classic, Eisner Award-winning crime comic TORSO, by Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko to graphic novel readers everywhere. Read on for an interview with Brian Michael Bendis and an excerpt from the comic’s opening pages. How did the writing of TORSO influence your [...]
Gun 101
Mar 12, 2012 in Guest Posts
I just finished reading the galley of a bestselling author’s soon-to-be-released thriller. Early in the book the author describes how the main character loads a 17-round magazine for a revolver. I realized I had my work cut out for me. Unless one has hands-on experience with firearms, it’s easy to make mistakes. At a mystery [...]
A Few Thoughts on Jim Thompson and The Grifters
Mar 08, 2012 in eBooks, Film, Guest Posts
Today Mulholland Books celebrates the publication of five more Jim Thompson ebooks with the below essay from noir scholar Shannon Clute, and the launch of a dedicated Jim Thompson website! There are those moments in life so powerful and disturbing that they defy definition. For me, Jim Thompson’s novels provide such moments. Or maybe it’s [...]
Dark Valentine
Mar 06, 2012 in Fiction, Mulholland Authors
Enjoy this twisted slice of fiction from the brilliant mind behind Prison Break and Breakout Kings, and the novels FIFTEEN DIGITS and SLIP AND FALL, coming from Mulholland Books in April 2012. “This is called Candy Cane,” the sales girl said, handing me the small bottle. I unscrewed the top and sniffed it. “It doesn’t smell [...]
Me and Mike: Sophie Littlefield Interviews Mike Cooper
Mar 05, 2012 in Guest Posts, Writing
Sophie Littlefield: So let’s get the basics out of the way first. You write, I write. You’re the much, much older east coast sibling and I’m the fun-loving west coast one. We both have kids and we both grew up with our noses in books. What else should people know about us to start off [...]
The Disapearance of Lynette Dawson
Feb 28, 2012 in Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
Twenty-eight years ago, a young mother disappeared from her home in Sydney’s northern suburbs, leaving behind two daughters and a handsome football star husband. Lynette Dawson, a nurse and childcare worker, has never been seen since, but the mystery of her fate continues to haunt her family, friends and neighbours. It also provided the seed [...]
Continue Reading A Single Shot
Sep 02, 2011 in Books, Mulholland Authors
If you missed Part I of the excerpt from A SINGLE SHOT, start reading here. He loses sense of time and objectivity. He sits down on a small rock next to the body and, as the sun heats his naked back, declares himself a murderer. For the moment, he forgets that the body is even [...]
