Hard Case Crime news – 10/21/10

Full text of today’s Hard Case Crime newsletter below the fold.

In addition to the great news that they’ll continue publishing, we also learn that Charles Ardai’s John Blake novels (written as Richard Aleas) Little Girl Lost (which I just reviewed) and Songs of Innocence (which I’ll be posting on in the next couple […]

Comeback: The return of Hard Case Crime

Via Ed Gorman comes this great news.

We’ve got some big news to announce today: After a year’s hiatus, Hard Case Crime will be returning to bookstores with new titles in 2011, thanks to a deal we just signed with UK-based Titan Publishing.

Titan is a publisher both of fiction […]

Hard Case Crime 10/04: Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas (#4)

Little Girl LOST

Miranda Sugarman was supposed to be in the Midwest, working as an eye doctor. So how did she wind up dead on the roof of New York’s seediest strip club?

Little Girl LOST

Ten years earlier, Miranda had been P.I. John Blake’s girlfriend. Now he must uncover […]

Hard Case Crime 10/06: The Last Match by David Dodge (#25)

In Print for the First Time Anywhere — A NEW INTERNATIONAL THRILLER BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘TO CATCH A THIEF’

When a handsome swindler working the French Riviera meets a beautiful heiress on the beach at Cannes, sparks fly. But so do bullets – and soon he’s forced to flee […]

What’s going on with Hard Case Crime?

Hard Case Crime’s printer and distributor, Dorchester Publishing, isn’t quite shutting its doors, but it is going to a purely e-book and print-on-demand format. This is unfortunate, to say the least. In addition to mailing me the newest Hard Case Crime novel upon release through their wonderful book club, they were unfailingly polite and […]

Hard Case Crime news – 5/21/10 (part 2)

Continued from Part 1. My thoughts below.

One other bit of news, and it’s a big one: Our best-selling title of all time, Stephen King’s THE COLORADO KID, is about to become a TV series! The show is called “Haven,” and it debuts on July 9 on SyFy (the network formerly known […]

Hard Case Crime news – 5/21/10 (part 1)

Lots of interesting news in the latest Hard Case Crime newsletter, so I’m breaking it into to two parts so your eyes don’t glaze over.

Friends,

Back in 2008, we published one of our most popular books (and our first by a female author), Christa Faust’s MONEY SHOT. The book […]

Memory out now!

The official release date for Donald Westlake’s lost novel, Memory, is 3/30/10. However, Charles Ardai at Hard Case Crime reports:

I’ve seen and held a copy; I’ve seen it available for delivery on Amazon.com and BarnesAndNoble.com (and the easier-to-type bn.com); and I’ve seen it on the shelves of one bookstore near me. […]

Latest news from Hard Case Crime

Via the Hard Case Crime e-mail list:

Friends,

In six weeks, we’re going to publish Donald E. Westlake’s unpublished novel, MEMORY.

Both Publishers Weekly and Booklist have given it starred reviews, calling it “a significant final work from a master” and “absolutely a must-read.” The book hits stores at the end of March — […]

Hard Case Crime review: The Valley of Fear by A. C. Doyle (HCC-063)

YEARS AGO, A P.I. OUT OF CHICAGO BROUGHT JUSTICE TO A DIRTY TOWN.

NOW HE’S GOING TO PAY!

A sawed-off shotgun blast to the face leaves one man dead–and reveals a secret that has pursuied another across an ocean and set the world’s most ruthless criminal on his trail. The […]