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A GREAT ACTION MOVIE TO READ: STEVE HAMILTON'S THE HONORABLE ASSASSIN
Steve Hamilton's Nick Mason series slides into something different with each book, The first one, The Second Life Of Nick Mason, with the...
JAMES WADE'S HOLLOW OUT THE DARK
James Wade has been steadily rising in notoriety within the literary community. His examinations of male identity carried by his rich...
"WE CAME TO GRIPS WITH MANY OF THESE CHANGES AND SETTLED INTO A NEW REALITY": PRIVATE DICKS AND DISCO BALLS EDITOR MICHAEL BRACKEN
Private Dicks and Disco Balls is a wonderful and fun anthology with detective tales that take place in the seventies. Tales touch on the...
BAD MEMORIES WE DON'T WANT TO FORGET: REED FARREL COLEMAN'S BLIND TO MIDNIGHT
For the many years I've known Reed Farrel Coleman, he would occasionally mention a true unsolved crime he wanted to utilize in his...
"...A CRIME HAS MUCH TO DO WITH IT'S SETTING..": AN INTERVIEW WITH HOLY CITY'S HENRY WISE
Holy City is one of this summer's attention getting debuts. It's story of a sheriff's deputy and and private detective, both with broken...
"...SO THANK YOU AGATHA": A BLOOD RED MORNING'S MARK PRYOR
A Blood Red Morning is the third book to feature, Henri Lefort, a homicide detective in occupied Paris, often working cases where the...
PARISIAN PARANOIA: MARK PRYOR'S A BLOOD RED MORNING
In Mark Pryor's Henri Lefort series, the German occupied Paris his homicide detective moves into a different personality with each book....
THE SILENT & SINFUL ERA: SCOTT PHILLIPS' THE DEVIL RAISES HIS OWN
It appears part of Scott Phillips' mission as writer is to deflate built up perceptions. From his first book, The Ice Harvest, he poked...
FORCES OF NATURE: HOUSE OF RAIN AND BONE by Gabino Iglesias
It's no surprise Gabino Iglesias works both in horror and crime fiction, often blending the two. Both give opportunity to examine the...
"I WANTED TO TAP INTO THE MORE NOIR ASPECTS OF L.A.": AN INTERVIEW WITH THE HOLLYWOOD ASSISTANT'S MAY COBB
May Cobb's latest, The Hollywood Assistant, the author used early job a personal assistant to an actress and her director husband as a...
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