A recent Doonesbury comic strip had a book publisher telling an action novelist that his high-body-count books were bucking the trend: “People want healing fiction now.” Rest assured, no one is going ...

Hard-charging action will draw readers but fully realized characters will sustain a series, as Gregg Hurwitz again proves in “Nemesis,” the 10th installment in his Orphan X series. Evan Smoak is ...

The upcoming visit is to promote “Nemesis,” his latest installment in the Orphan X Series. The author said that in a lot of ways, his new book is the most personal story yet of Orphan X lead character ...

Hurwitz’s boilerplate 10th thriller featuring master assassin Evan Smoak (after Lone Wolf) offers more of the same—for better and worse. Smoak’s traumatic youth, during which he was plucked from ...

The Columbus Book Festival will take place July 12-13 at the Columbus Metropolitan Library and Topiary Park. Headlining authors include Gregg Hurwitz, Victoria Christopher Murray, Amal El-Mohtar and ...

Hurwitz (the Orphan X series) colors within the lines in this predictable, Black Mirror–esque thriller about a family’s encounter with a sinister technology. Mark and Rebecca Higgins are haunted by ...

Gregg Hurwitz continues his Orphan X series with the most personal entry so far. Assassin-turned-avenger Evan Smoak meets his (supposed) birth mother who gave him up for adoption, setting the stage ...

L.A. is the perfect setting for mysteries. Since there's no there in LA, people can hide out anywhere. After all, Raymond Chandler set The Big Sleep in LA, and detective stories don't get any better ...