Category: Books

Blackout List

The Black Publishing Power Initiative is asking readers to buy two books written by Black authors during the week of June 14 – 20. If you’re looking for ideas, here’s a few African-American crime writers I’ve read and …

A Walk Along Driscoll’s Wharf

One of the more enjoyable parts of starting a new Rolly Waters book is the research I get to do in my hometown of San Diego. Sometimes I get to investigate places I already know. And sometimes I …

Clear the Shelves II

Take one of these books off my hands and I’ll give $10 to the San Diego Food Bank. The first round of the Clear the Shelves giveaway came about during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when …

Desert City Diva Revealed!

This is it. The official cover for the third Rolly Waters Mystery – Desert City Diva. On sale now in the UK and arriving in the USA on January 1, 2016. Not bad, eh? A darkly humorous noir …

Jungle Love (a writer’s recycling story)

One of the central plot points in Border Field Blues revolves around a song titled “Jungle Love”. My protagonist, Rolly Waters, finds a discarded CD case at the crime scene. It has the title “Jungle Love” on the …