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SMALL TOWN DEATH:TERRY SHAMES' GUILT STRIKES GRANGER'S STORE

The Samuel Craddock series is a smart take on the small town mystery series. Terry Shames' books featuring the widower chief of police...

LAWRENCE BLOCK'S THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MATTHEW SCUDDER

Matt Scudder stands as one of the most influential private eyes in the genre. Lawrence Block dropped his haunted, lapsed Catholic,...

"...A STORY OF REVENGE, COWBOY STYLE":AN INTERVIEW WITH WYATT & THE DUKE'S PATRICK CIRILLO

Patrick Cirillo's Wyatt & The Duke is fun buddy tale set in 1927 Hollywood with an old Wyatt Earp teaching a young Marion Morrison,...

NOIR LIKE IT'S 1999: SWEET THING BY DAVID SWINSON

As George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane dedicate more of their time to television, the heir apparent for crime stories of both grit and...

"...WE ARE SHAPED BY THE PLACES WE'RE FROM": AN INTERVIEW WITH CALL THE DARK'S J. TODD SCOTT

J. Todd Scott is best known for gritty rural crime novels like his Big Bend County series. Lately he has injected thriller and horror...

"THIS ONE IS FULL OF LUNATICS"- DRIVE IN: THE MULTIPLEX'S CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN AND BRIAN KEENE

Joe Lansdale's The Drive In series has an effect on many writers who crossed its path. Christopher Golden and Brian Keene gathered many...

PULP HEROES AND HISTORY: THE MOTHMAN MENACE BY CRAIG MCDONALD

The Mothman Menace is the second book in Craig McDonald's Zana O'Savin series where the sixties become populated with versions of...

"THE CASES HAVEN'T CHANGED AS MUCH AS HE HAS": AN INTERVIEW WITH TOO MANY BULLETS' MAX ALLAN COLLINS

Too Many Bullets, the latest Nate Heller novel that has the private detective unraveling the RFK assassination with the help of a sexy...

GOING DUTCH PART 2 - THE BOUNTY HUNTERS

Elmore Leonard's first novel, The Bounty Hunters, contains evidence of both a first time genre author and germs of who that writer would...

PRINTING THE LEGENDS: WYATT & THE DUKE BY PATRICK CIRILLO

Patrick Cirillo opens his debut, Wyatt & The Duke, with a seventy-nine year old Wyatt Earp telling the story of O.K. Corral Gunfight in a...

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