Richard Godwin on His New Thriller Noir Novel SAVAGE HIGHWAY

Noir Author Richard Godwin Discusses The Connection Between Crime and Horror

I have said that The Pure And The Hated is a cross between crime fiction and horror fiction. That is because the events in it involve an intersection of styles. While it is more crime than horror, the reason there is an overlap is what I am

The Double: Richard Godwin On the Idea of Split Personality

In The Pure And The Hated the idea of split personality is a central theme. It relates to what identity is and how irrational impulses may drive a character. As I trace the roots of horror fiction in Gothic and look at how it has evolved, I

Richard Godwin on the Gothic Roots of Horror

There is much that is Gothic in The Pure And The Hated, my novel about the past, about revenge and lawlessness. In many ways revenge may be seen as lawless justice. As I examine what horror fiction means to us and how it relates to crime fiction,

Richard Godwin on Horror Fiction

In this series of posts I want to look at what links horror fiction and crime fiction. The posts are part of the launch of my Vermont based novel The Pure And The Hated. I have spent several years if my life in Vermont. My wife is from the state and

Richard Godwin: The Bad Guy in Crime Fiction

Savage Highway is about bad guys and the breakdown of law and why justice fails. In a lawless world revenge is justice. I want to discuss other authors here before I focus on the novel itself. Savage Highway is about the frontier. Both of the

Richard Godwin on the Trends in Crime Fiction

TRENDS IN CRIME FICTION, Richard Godwin. Savage Highway is about lawlessness and revenge, the breakdown of justice and disorder within the human psyche. Where does it sit in the crime fiction canon? Somewhere between James Lee Burke and Elmore

Richard Godwin Discusses Lawlessness in Crime Fiction

LAWLESSNESS IN CRIME FICTION, Richard Godwin. An author frequently gets asked how did you come to write this book? In a way this post tackles that but in the wider context. This forms part of a series of posts about Savage Highway. I wrote Savage

Richard Godwin: Internationally Acclaimed Crime Fiction, Horror and Noir

"There is recognition and alienation wrapped up inside horror. Extreme crime evokes a horror that is more real than something a reader knows does not exist." --Richard Godwin in A thin line between Crime and Horror Fiction for The Thrill

True Crime experts Nic Edwards and Brian Whitney – Updated with Shocking Investigation and Trial Content THE DELPHI MURDERS: The Quest To Find ‘The Man On The Bridge’

"A crime story with heart. Impressively researched and written with passion."--Patrick Quinlan, Los Angeles Times Best Selling author of ALL THOSE MOMENTS On February 13, 2017, two Indiana teenagers, Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, went … [More...]

Chained Birds True Crime – Prison Gangs, Abuse and Redemption

After three years in Europe, former journalist Carla Conti* wanted to settle her family in the suburbs of Philadelphia. But her high school friend Scott Powell, a lawyer handling a brutal prison stabbing case, needed a favor. Before she knew … [More...]

An Exclusive Inside Look into the Robert Telles Murder Trial in “THE LAST STORY: The Murder of an Investigative Journalist in Las Vegas” by Arthur Kane

Kane delivers a compelling story... [that] skillfully leads readers through [Jeff German's] homicide investigation that reveals a surprise suspect charged with the killing of a journalist who made plenty of enemies for his exposes of crime and … [More...]

BUY NOW! B.R. Bates and Gerald Cliff explore the Detroit murder scene of the 1990s-2000s in THE ‘BABY DOLL’ SERIAL KILLER

He was unassuming, sweet, and friendly. "Saved" in church as a teen, he never caused trouble. In the Navy, they called him Opie. Though he was a big guy, he had a soft, boyish demeanor. "The boy next door," said those who worked with and knew … [More...]

Richard Godwin on His New Thriller Noir Novel SAVAGE HIGHWAY

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