Mystery Novels

Westword Book Club: J.A. Kazimer on dyslexia, peeing in a bottle and writing what you know

J.A. Kazimer is a Denver-based writer and fascinating human being with a wide spectrum of skills and interests. The author of books with such disparate titles as SHANK, Holy Socks and Dirtier Demons, and Froggy Style: A Fucked-Up Fairy Tale,Kazimer's life and work have bee ... More >>

Westword Book Club: Ryan Demers on filmmaking, furries and Gone Girl

Ryan Demers, a Denver-based filmmaker, is the co-founder of Gaylord St. Productions, and has managed the impressive feat of helming two independent films without going completely bankrupt and abandoning the dream. The Honey Cooler, a farcical detective story set in the milieu of an economic ... More >>

Manuel Ramos on his Mile High noir novel and the gentrification of Denver's North Side

Set in the depths of a Denver recession, Manuel Ramos' new novel follows Gus Corral as he gets caught up in a gritty world of warring gangs, murder and a missing religious artifact. Out now on Arte Público Press, Desperado: A Mile High Noir uses the North Side of Denver as the backdrop for a thrill ... More >>

Personhood movement not going away despite multiple defeats in Colorado

Denver blogs have missed you. Big Media's Jason Salzman suggests that the failed Pesonhood Amendment will make yet another comeback. Denver Egotist: Creative director Matt Ingwalson wrote a mystery you can read. Denver Frank asks: What's your plan B?

In Unforgivable, anti-romanticism is romantic

Tune up your novel-writing skills at MWA University

Maybe you finally finished a NaNoWriMo project, and now you're not sure what to do with the manuscript. Perhaps you've been hard at work at the Great American Zombie Novel, but you can't get the characters to gel. Or hell, possibly you're convinced you could write some ladyporn that would put Fifty ... More >>

Feed Your Swede Tooth

A Tangled Yarn

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Mystery writer C.J. Box discusses his latest tale.

Gone Baby Gone

The Brothers Affleck come through with a complex, sophisticated Boston crime drama.

Whodunit High

Who Done Read It?

Mystery Writers clue kids in to reading

Fearless Mosley

Writer Walter Mosley returns to the mystery but keeps experimenting with forms.

Game Boy

Mystery writer C.J. Box gives readers a new Western hero.

The Doctor Is In

This book's a killer!

Case Closed

Mystery grows at local writers' gathering.

Humble P.I.

A local author takes the detective novel to the cleaners.

STILL A KILLER