Craig Johnson's eighth venture out with Walt Longmire, As the Crow Flies won’t be near the last we’ll see of the sheriff of Absaroka County Wyoming if the attention the new A&E original series Longmire is getting counts for anything. The hour long drama premieres Sunday, June 3 and will introduce many newcomers to the richly detailed fictional county in the country’s least populated state.

Here's a reading list to take a tour through the last seventy years of Russian and Post Soviet Eastern Europe in mystery and crime fiction.

With the release of The Family Corleone by Ed Falco, the prequel to Mario Puzo's original The Godfather, I'm in a familial frame of mind. The bond of blood and its manifold manifestations boiled down to five basic types for your edification:

Max Allan Collins has taken on the completing of the unfinished work of Mickey Spillane, and that's not all. He's a prolific jack of all trades (also a musician and film maker), and he never does anything half way. A list of my top-five Max Allan Collins projects follows.

Frank Wheeler's debut introduces a most memorable man of the law who's also a psycho killer in the vein of Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me and Pop. 1280.

Derek Raymond wrote some seriously gritty industrial strength urban (sorta) procedurals and his final books is finally available in North America. Now, where to go from here? A list of British crime writers in my sights.

Viva La Madness is J.J. Connolly's follow up to Layer Cake - basis for the film starring Daniel Craig - and has inspired this list of my favorite British Gangster Movies.

The Edgar Awards winners were announced last week and the Spinetingler Awards closed their polls last night. I'm looking for overlap and finding... none. Is there that much room in mystery and crime publishing that two institutions I pay attention to (call one the establishment and the other the upstarts if you must) could see things entirely differently? 

Regardless, lots of good stuff to check out that slipped under my radar on both lists.

Wayne Arthurson, author of the Leo Deroches books, answers a few questions.

Yesterday World Book Night was celebrated - a charitable venture looking to inspire a love of reading in people without the disposable income to spend on books. I've compiled my own list of mystery and crime books I'd recommend gifting to someone you'd like to see get excited about reading. I want your picks too.