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THE TRUTH IN MURDER: DENISE MINA'S THE GOOD LIAR
Denise Mina is a crime writer who always has something t say. Even her lightest books carry weight. With The Good Liar, she uses a murder...
TWO TOUGH GUY TALES: W.R. BURNETT'S THE LOOP/ MAN WITH A THOUSAND ENEMIES
W.R. Burnett put his stamp on last centuries pop culture. Books like Little Caesar, High Sierra and The Asphalt JUngle set templates for ...
"I DON'T SEE ART IN SILOS": A SONG FOR KATY SHAYNE & WRITERS AT WORK'S JIM FUSILLI
I met Jim Fusilli early on in my career in the book world when he was writing his Terry Orr series, a favorite of one of my bosses who...
CELEBRATING OVER A HALF CENTURY OF GREAT WRITING- C.M.KUSHINS' COOLER THAN COOL: THE LIFE AND WORK OF ELMORE LEONARD
With the possible exception of Stephen King, Elmore Leonard became the most influential genre author of these overlapping centuries. Many...
CINEMA UNDER A SEVENTIES INFLUENCE: ANDREW J. RAUSCH'S THE TAKING OF NEW YORK CITY & THE FILMS OF QUENTIN TARANTINO (WITH KIERAN FISHER)
I got to know fiction writer and literary and film expert Andrew J. Rausch when he used a CrimeReads piece I did for Joe Lansdale...
A UNIQUE SIN CITY: LYNN KOSTOFF'S THE LENGTH OF DAYS
Lynn Kostoff is a writer I have been meaning to read for years. Other writers praise him, but timing nd other books published at the time...
SLEUTHS JUST WANNA' HAVE FUN'S MICHAEL BRACKEN, MARK THIELMAN, LAURA OLES, ANDREW HEARN, & WILLIAM DYLAN POWELL
A few months back Michael Bracken released his collection Sleuths Just Wanna' Have with original private eye tales set in the eighties,...
NOT SO LONE RANGER: MARK GREATHOUSE'S GUNS ON THE GUADALUPE
Guns on the Guadalupe is the ninth book in Mark Greathouse's Tumbleweeds aga that follows generations of a Texas family. I admit this is...
"WHAT DO WOMEN WRITE WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING?": EVERY EVIL UNDER THE SUN'S ALEXANDRA BURT, V.P. CHANDLER, & LAURA OLES
Recently I had the honor of writing the forward to For Every Evil Under the Sun. and anthology of fiction leaning on the noir side from...
"ANIMALS CAN'T BE ANYMORE CARDBORAD THAN HUMAN CHARACTERS...": THE MAN FROM DAKOTA'S PETER BRANDVOLD
Peter Brandvold's latest, The Man From Dakota, is the second book to feature tall travelling loner Nordic Anders and his trusty collie...
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