Magnificent Octopus

The unevolved axolotl is an apt pet for Javier Cetarti, although he comes to care for it quite by accident and later abandons it without a t...

Aimee (not her real name) is a grifter. She's killed several times, for money and for justice. She is "the avenging angel of her ow...

The most ridiculous thing I read this summer was a Doctor Who book. And it wasn't even a "proper" Doctor Who book. The Angel...

Mock got up from his chair and cast his eye over the assembled men. This was what he had been missing for the past three years. Briefings, f...

Four blacks slid the coffin into the too-shallow hole. They used hoes to rake the dirt over it. The idea that one day he might also be int...

Four browned goose necks landed on Mock's plate. He cut this delicacy into strips and arranged them on round, crunchy slices of potato. ...

Mock looked up at his colleague, Herbert Domagalla, who was clattering on the platen of a Torpedo typewriter, transforming the statements gi...

Which cover do you like better? Would you pay a premium (of, say, 50% more) to have the book with your preferred cover? Have you ever ins...

To read! ( Inner Sanctum , 1948.) I think she's flirting. I can't decide if it's sexy, creepy, or ridiculous.

Eberhard Mock, Criminal Councillor investigating the serial killings that occur in The End of the World in Breslau (by Marek Krajewski), ad...

Standing room only again in the metro the other morning. I'm used to it. I pull out my novel. I feel someone's eyes on me. A middl...

Marek Krajewski was a wonderful discovery and Death in Breslau is full of, in my opinion, fantastic story elements . I won't repeat mys...

The patient Herbert Anwaldt had survived "the house of torture", as he called the psychiatric clinic on Marien-Allee in Dresden, f...