Keith Roysdon

1 week ago | dailyyonder.com | Keith Roysdon

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1 week ago | crimereads.com | Keith Roysdon

“I have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar, on my desk.”Article continues after advertisementRobert Bloch wrote those words a couple of decades before I was born and long before he became best known as the author of the 1959 novel “Psycho,” the basis for the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock suspense and horror film. Those words were pretty much the first thing I knew about Bloch.

2 weeks ago | mightyape.co.nz | Keith Roysdon

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1 month ago | shotgunhoney.com | Keith Roysdon

“In the beginning there was trouble and it remained there all my life.”Wilson rolled the paper out of the typewriter carriage and called Kendall, his partner, over to check it out. “Looks like a suicide note to me,” Kendall said around the cigar in the corner of his mouth. He pushed his sleeve back and looked at his watch. “Yeah, but typed?” Wilson took the sheet back. “You satisfied that the uniforms who found him pancaked on the sidewalk out front got it right?

1 month ago | bookshop.org | Keith Roysdon

"Roysdon's THAT OCTOBER takes readers on a wild, fun ride filled with '80s nostalgia and a small-town murder mystery with a little espionage thrown in. His teen Sherlocks are easy to root for as they find themselves in the middle of a crime much bigger than they thought.