Author: Erik Samdahl

My wife and I recently traveled to Cuba, which proved to be a terrific (but hot and humid) experience. As U.S. citizens, however, planning the trip proved to

I’m getting married soon, which means I’ll be having guests in from out of town. Some of them have asked me “what the heck should I do when

While on vacation in Europe, I brought along quite a few books–including a 2008 thriller by James Rollins called The Last Oracle. It’s been a while since I’ve

Ishmael Beah went to hell and back to write A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, a disturbingly true story about his experiences as a child

Defending Jacob, by William Landay, is one of the better fiction novels I have read in a long time. About an assistant district attorney who, while investigating a

When the first draft of The Trojan Conspiracy was completed, the book was 145,000 words long–nearly 40,000 words longer than intended. Here’s one chapter that was left on the

Krakauer takes on the sensitive and disturbing topic of rape.

The book is now available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle formats.

I've been on a Gillian Flynn kick this year. Why has she only written three books??!?

Dark Places is a disturbing and captivating mystery full of gray characters and gray truths.