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CRACKING CASES IN THE REAGAN ERA: SLEUTHS JUST WANNA' HAVE FUN- PRIVATE EYES IN THE MATERIALISTIC EIGHTIES edited by Michel Bracken
The eighties were an interesting time for fictional private eyes. V.I. Warshawski and Kinsey Millhone broke the glass ceiling. The...
"ALMOST EVERYONE HAS SOME PROFESSIONAL OR INTENSE PERSONAL TIE TO MUSIC.": 120 MURDERS' NICK MAMATAS
Nick Mamatas, a master craftsman of crime and dark fiction in his own right, gathered almost two dozen gifted writers of various...
MICHEL LEE GARRET'S BORN A RAMBLING MAN AND OTHER STORIES
Michel Lee Garrett has been chopping her way through the short fiction jungle with her two-fixted tales. She has appeared in many...
CRIME & PROG POP: IN TOO DEEP: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs Of Genesis edited by Adam Meyer
When I first heard about the anthology In Too Deep that featured crime stories inspired by the songs of Genesis, focusing on the Phil...
"IT'S HISTORY WITH A PULSE...": DIRTY LITTLE WAR'S DIETRICH KALTEIS
In Dirty Little War Dietrich Kalteis dives into Roaring Twenties Chicago with Huck Waller a bare knuckles fighter who leaves New Orleans...
LITTLE BIG MAN BY WAY OF CTHULHU: STEPHEN GRAHAM JONE'S THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER
Stephen Graham Jones' The Buffalo Hunter Hunter created huge buzz even before it arrived. One of the most lauded horror writers with a...
SMALL TOWN U.S.A. BY WAY OF ROD SERLING AND DAVID LYNCH: JON BASSOFF'S THE MEMORY WARD
Like his friend Gabino Iglesias, Jon Bassoff is one of the masters at mixing genres. He fuses crime, thriller, horror, and at times...
SUSPENSE THAT DOESN'T SELL OUT: 120 MURDERS edited by NICK MAMATAS
120 Murders edited by Nick Mamatas takes a different tack from the fiction anthologies that serve as musical tributes. Instead of one...
A VIBRANT AND VIOLENT TIME: DIETRICH KALTEIS' DIRTY LITTLE WAR
Dietrich Kalteis got my attention last year with his book Crooked. It followed the true Depression era exploits of The Barker-Karpis...
MY KEN BRUEN TOP TEN
Recently I wrote an a remembrance of Ken Bruen  for CrimeReads about recently departed friend. I also intended to put a top ten list of...
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