Plum Island is Nelson DeMille’s first novel featuring NYPD Detective John Corey. After being shot three times, Corey is trying to take it easy in a small town in Long Island. However, a married couple he knows is found shot to death on their patio and the local police chief wants Corey’s help with the … More Nelson DeMille’s Plum Island introduces Detective John Corey
Vincent Price stars in 1959’s House on Haunted Hill. Price plays a rich man who invites five strangers to a reportedly haunted house he’s rented, which seven people have been murdered in, for a party. He offers them ten thousand dollars (worth eighty-eight thousand dollars compared to 2020 dollars) if they can survive through the … More House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Spin-offs are more common in TV shows or movies than in novels, but John Sandford spun-off his character Detective Virgil Flowers with the novel Dark of the Moon in 2008. Virgil is not your typical detective – he keeps his hair long, wears obscure rock band t-shirts, and has a string of ex-wives. As an … More John Sandford’s ‘Dark of the Moon’ Introduces Readers to Virgil Flowers
In 1991, Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars Heir to the Empire was the first Star Wars novel to be set after the conclusion of Return of the Jedi, which was a pretty big deal at the time, thus making it very successful in both paperback and hardback. It is the first book of the Thrawn trilogy, … More Book Review: Heir to the Empire
