Phillip Thompson

Crime Fiction writer

Following on the heels of reviews by New York Times best-selling crime writers, Publishers Weekly released its own review of Outside the Law today, and the bottom line is this: “Tough, fast-paced…Thompson’s convincing characters race toward an inevitable and explosive showdown.” Read the entire review here, and read more reviews for Outside the Law over …

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Double play: “Billy & Ray” and “The Stand-In”: What are the odds? A pair of plays may have theatergoers and film buffs seeing double. Within a week, by sheer coincidence, two different shows about writer/director Billy Wilder have opened on SoCal stages. At the heart of both is the 1944 film noir classic Double Indemnity, …

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