Category Archives: Dick’s Posts

Launching, September 1, 6PM at Longfellow Books: Hard as a Headstone and the reissue of The Last Altruist And so on  . . Celebrating a big-number birthday this year and I’m strangely calm about it, though there are many days … Continue reading →

Between the Crime Wave and a couple other appearances, including a West Bath book group where I ran into someone I worked with in Chelmsford, MA in 1985, it feels like I’ve been out and about a fair amount this … Continue reading →

Shameless Commerce Division As many of you know, Islandport Press will publish the second in the Ardmore Theberge series Hard as a Headstone in September. Here is the cover. The web page for the book is here, if you’d like … Continue reading →

Thanks for the good wishes and other support for my current recovery—knee rehab is going well, if slowly, and I have an excellent pile of books to keep me company. I’m also reading a posthumous collection of short pieces by … Continue reading →

As much as I love the rest of the holiday trappings—the tree, the weather, the roast beast—I might love the music more than any of them. I don’t practice the religious tradition I was brought up in, but you never … Continue reading →

Recently attended the annual Crime Bake in Boston and outside of the suspicion that the hotel where it was held only exists for laundering money—rugs held together with duct tape, both freezing and boiling meeting rooms, a restaurant without enough … Continue reading →

We creative types like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists, wresting our work and what success we can find out of an unforgiving world by the strength of our sinews and the pureness of our hearts, when the truth … Continue reading →

On July 17, 2023, my morning coffee was interrupted with the sound of chainsaws twenty five feet from my bedroom window. Outside the window I saw a squad of five men on the side of the hill above our house, … Continue reading →