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A NEW TRAVELER ON THE ROAD OF KINGS: JAMES LOVEGROVE'S CONAN: CULT OF THE OBSIDIAN MOON

King Arthur may be the only other fantasy hero more authors have written about than Conan. Robert E. Howard's love of history and...

BILLY THE KID: THE WAR FOR LINCOLN COUNTY'S RYAN C. COLEMAN

Ryan C Colman's Billy The Kid: The War In LIncoln County looks at the origin of the young outlaw and the political and trade war that...

NOT SO SERIOUS: LOU BERNEY'S DOUBLE BARREL BLUFF

Double Barrel Bluff is Lou Berney's return to his now former mob driver Shade Bouchon. Old lovers and enemies pull him to an exotic...

NOT YOUR NORMAL LONGMIRE TALE: CRAIG JOHNSON'S TOOTH AND CLAW

I hope you can excuse my narcissism, but it became difficult for me to read Tooth & Claw, a novella featuring author Craig Johnson’s Walt...

"WE NEED A LITTLE LAUGHTER IN THE DARK": MIDNIGHT AND BLUE'S IAN RANKIN

In the latest John Rebus novel, Midnight and Blue, Ian Rankin makes his former copper into a prison inmate. Soon a fellow prisoner is...

NO FANTASY ISLAND: HONOLULU NOIR EDITED BY CHRIS MCKINNEY

With Honolulu Noir, the latest in the Akashic Noir series, editor Chris McKinney proves that city even if on the surface doesn't seem the...

"MOST OF THEM ARE SIMPLY FUN TO WRITE ABOUT": BANDIT HEAVEN'S TOM CLAVIN

Tom Clavin's latest look at the wild west is one that looks at it's closing with outlaw Butch Cassidy who used the terrain known as The...

OLD MAN WITH A GUN: MAX ALLAN COLLINS' QUARRY'S RETURN

Quarry is met in his home by a mysterious man after a Christmas visit with Susan. He pretends to be a reporter who has tied her true...

SIX GUN FUN:STEVE HOCKENSMITH'S NO HALLOWED GROUND

A little more than a month ago, Steve Hockensmith introduced us to to The Hired Guns in his first traditional western. Former cavalry...

"SOME OF THE MOST ENTERTAINING RESEARCH I'VE EVER DONE": CROOKED'S DIETRICH KALTEIS

Dietrich Katleis keeps the prose flying like bullets in from a Tommy gun is Crooked as he follows the exploits of Alvin Karpis and Fred...

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