Explore more of the Dark City at Auntie’s

From the days when True Detective magazine thrilled readers in the 1920s, to today's cable-TV shows such as "Homicide Hunter" (on Investigation Discovery) or "Snapped" (on Oxygen Network), true-crimes have titilated a variety of audiences.

Steve Oliver knows that. He's explored it as an author ("Moody Gets the Blues," "Moody Forever," etc.), he's explored it as a one-time bookstore owner and he continues to explore it as a publisher.

Oliver will be at Auntie's Bookstore at 7 tonight to read from The Dark City Crime and Mystery Magazine, a quarterly publication that features fictional stories — primarily based on the West Coast — written by a range of authors, some from Spokane (such as Darin Krogh, Barbara Curtis and even Oliver himself).

As Oliver himself wrote, "The Dark City Mystery Magazine is the product of a community of crime and mystery writers and fans who spend an inappropriate amount of time exploring the dark side of human nature as expressed by its criminal behavior."

You may be among their number. If so, welcome to Oliver's Dark City.