Fans of Elmore Leonard's US Marshal Raylan Givens have got an embarrassment of riches to choose from this month with the third season of Justified on TV and Leonard's first Givens-centric book Raylan out now.

Josh Bazell delivers a strange and highly entertaining follow-up to Beat the Reaper.

Conspiracies everywhere. Some of my favorites anyway.

Five new books served up the way I like em - hardboiled.

Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series is a publishing juggernaut, and I’m sure that the producers of the film adaptation of One for the Money are hoping that the character’s overwhelming popularity will translate into a big film franchise as well, but predicting the success of book to film adaptations is uneasy at best. Casting the central character is huge, but not everything. Neither a big star or rabid book fan-base guarantees a hit film. So, I’ve made some lists that span various successes, failures and rumors in franchise casting.

Checking out the Officer Gunnhildur series by Quentin Bates and it's got me looking for more of you favorites from the new-school "Nordic Noir".

I just read a brand new book that I could swear was a Gold Medal original written by a lesser known Jim Thompson contemporary. I've listed a few of the qualities and virtues that it shares with those classic hardboiled pulps of the mid-century.

You know the world's supposed to end in 2012, right? Will it look anything like Stephen Blackmoore's potty-mouthed zom-pocalypse mystery City of the Lost? Probably not as funny, anyhow.