Hard Boiled Collective Entries

Profile of Jochem Vandersteen

Jaden Terrell profiles and interviews Jochem Vandersteen, mystery writer and founder of the Hardboiled Collective - and popular creator of the blog, Sons of Spade. More >>

An interview with Bruce DeSilva

Bruce DeSilva is the author of the hard-boiled Mulligan crime novels, “Cliff Walk,” and “Rogue Island,” with a third, “Providence Rag,” on the way. His fiction has won the Edgar and Macavity awards and been a finalist for the Anthony and Shamus awards. Previously he worked as a journalist for 40 years, most recently as a senior editor for The Associated Press. Stories he edited have won virtually every major journalism prize including The Polk (twice), The Livingston (twice), and the ASNE. He also contributed to two Pulitzer finalists and a Pulitzer winner. He reviews books for the AP and is a master’s thesis adviser at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.More >>

Interview with Jaden Terrell

Q. I'm always asked the question, how does it feel to write first person narration from the POV of the opposite gender (my Jackie Swaitkowski series). So, Jaden, how does it feel? More >>

Interview with Michael Haskins

Michael Haskins writes the Mick Murphy series set in Key West. The latest, Stairway to the Bottom, has recently been released. If you love sun-soaked settings, slightly rum-soaked characters, lots of lots of very bad bad guys and a classic hardboiled amateur sleuth protagonist (all of which I do quite a bit), Haskins has your book.More >>

Dead on the Island

You can enjoy a mystery on a lot of different levels. For me, what I enjoy most about Bill Crider is his clean, spare and elegant prose. Always engaging, funny and accessible, on matters of style, pace and word selection, he just gets it right.More >>