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"...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...

"...ALMOST EIGHTY THOUSAND WORDS TO FIND THAT TRUTH...": AN INTERVIEW WITH BROILER'S ELI CRANOR

Broilers. Eli Cranor's latest rural noir, looks at the lives of two couples, one working in a chicken processing plant, the other a...

NOT SO WISEGUYS: CHARLIE STELLA'S JOEY PISS POT

I've always meant to read Charlie Stella. Believed to have some up close knowledge of the New York Mafia, he applies what he knows to...

TOP 10, OKAY 12, CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR SO FAR

So far this year is one of the skilled veteran. Experienced authors either returning to their series bringing new light of trying...

"VICIOUS THINGS SNARL FROM THE DARK EDGE OF THE FOREST...": SHADOW HEART'S MEG GARDINER

In Shadow Heart, Meg Gardiner's latest UNSUB novel, FBI profiler Cailtlin Hendrix catches a case that involves two killers, one in prison...

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