Category: Mystery

Ira Levin’s DEATHTRAP: A Primer, A Teaser, and a Plea

Ira Levin’s Deathtrap: A Primer, A Teaser, and a Plea

It’s a famous play, and today I thought I’d provide a quick primer on it, including some history on the production(s). It’s coming to London, Ontario in late-November 2025, at the Palace Theatre on Dundas Street.

DEATHTRAP is Coming to London, Ontario

Deathtrap is Coming to London, Ontario

It’s a “Prime” Day to Purchase TSJ’s Thrillers

It’s a “Prime” Day to Purchase TSJ’s Thrillers

Teasers for Upcoming Movies / Shows

Teasers for Upcoming Movies / Shows

A bunch of new teasers and trailers were just released for some highly anticipated shows and movies coming out this year. I thought I’d collect them all in one place for you to view.

These Movies are all Forty Years Old This Year

These Movies are all Forty Years Old This Year

I recently posted an article about Rocky IV being forty years old. That struck me as odd, because I don’t feel that old. I was only 15 years old the year it came out.

A New Review of THE FURNACE at Readers’ Favorite

A New Review of The Furnace at Readers’ Favorite

My Agatha-Christie-inspired murder mystery TechnoThriller, The Furnace, was my first novel. It received the 2015 CYGNUS Award for Sci-Fi Thriller and the 2015 CLUE Award for Blended Mystery. It follows the classic murder mystery formula, but uses science as the method of murder and features a future where humans are suffering under military dictatorship. Now, years after release, there is a new review I thought I’d share:

John Carpenter’s THE FOG — Forty-Five Years Old This Month

John Carpenter’s The Fog — Forty-Five Years Old This Month

It’s one of my favourite Carpenter films, and it’s forty-five years old this month.  And that’s hard to believe.

TSJ Reviews THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER

TSJ Reviews The Last Voyage of the Demeter

It’s been a while since I reviewed a movie on my blog, but the one I watched this past Saturday evening prompted me to do so.  You see, critics weren’t so hot on The Last Voyage of the Demeter, and reviews hurt the box office, but I enjoyed it very much.

A Blanket of Steel is off to the Publisher!

TSJ’s A Blanket of Steel is off to the Publisher!

And it’s off!

This is the sixth and final book in my underwater colonization series, The Rise of Oceania from Fitzhenry & Whiteside LTD.  It’s also the largest, at about 127,000 words.  I promise a gripping spy vs. spy tale filled with excitement, action, technology, and emotion.  There’s a reason it’s called A Blanket of Steel, and it ties in with the ongoing Cold War between the US, Russia, and China and the thirst for new resources on the ocean floor.  But as with my other titles, there is more than one meaning here, but I will leave it for you to discover.  It’s a standalone thriller; all the books in The Rise of Oceania can be read in any order.  Together they tell an overall arc about the Second Cold War, the McClusky family, and the world’s quest to colonize the ocean floor during escalating climate change on the surface.  And, of course, the necessary gruesome violence that it all entails.  The book is coming …

Timothy S. Johnston Reviews Hollywood North: A Novel in Six Reels

Timothy S. Johnston Reviews Hollywood North: A Novel in Six Reels by Michael Libling

Hollywood North is a breathtaking journey through Trenton, Ontario of the 1960s. The gripping story includes a wonderful mix of characters, murder, serial killers, childhood love, the supernatural, and a mystery that leaves you dying to uncover its secrets. But don’t fret, because Libling unveils all in a breathtaking finale that left my jaw on the floor. I implore you not to ignore the following advice: Stop reading and go buy this book now.