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TOP TWENTY-FIVE FOR FIRST TWENTY-FIVE (20-16)

HARD BOILED NO MATTER THE SITUATON: DANA CHAMBERS' SOME DAY I'LL KILL YOU & TOO LIKE THE LIGHTENING

THE RED AND THE DEAD: CON LEHANE'S THE RED SCARE MURDERS

"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...

ME DECADE DETECTIVES: PRIVATE DICKS AND DISCO BALLS EDITED BY MICHAEL BRACKEN

The fictional private eye both on the page and screen matured and went into many different directions in the nineteen-seventies. They...

OLD LEGENDS AND THOSE WHO LIVE IN THEM: LOREN D. ESTLEMAN'S IRON STAR

Loren D. Estleman is a writer skilled in how to use genre. For over four decades, he has worked in or combined most of them, particularly...

GUNFIGHTS, KUNG-FU, & LAUGHS WITH OLD FRIENDS: JOE LANSDALE'S SUGAR ON THE BONES

When Joe Lansdale returns to his heroes Hap and Leonard it's like our college buddies have come to visit. There's lots of laughs and...

SEX, SIN, & SHOW BUSINESS: MAY COBB'S THE HOLLYWOOD ASSISTANT

May Cobb's The Hollywood Assistant is something like a cross between Laura Lippman and Jackie Collins. It tells a lurid story of rich,...

"MOST EVERY SCENE WAS WRITTEN WITH DISCOVERY...": BLOOD RED SUMMER'S ERYK PRUITT

Eryk Pruitt has returned to Jess Keeler, his podcaster heroine from Something Bad Wrong, for Blood Red Summer. Auditioning for a TV show,...

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