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"THE VICTIM HAS TO BE A BELIEVABLE PERSON": AN INTERVIEW WITH FIRST DO NO HARM'S S.J. ROZAN

THE AMERICAN DREAM AND NIGHTMARE: TIMOTHY J. LOCKHART'S BROKEN KITE

A NEW YEAR, A NEW NOIR AT THE BAR

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,...

SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT: HENRY WISE'S HOLY CITY

Poet Henry Wise proves he has skill as a novelist in his debut Holy City. The southern thriller delivers in the atmosphere where the...

LOVE & VIOLENCE: AKIRA OTANI'S THE NIGHT OF BABA YAGA

Akira Otani plays with poetic dichotomies The Night Of Baba Yaga. She takes a tight action thriller and injects with a gender play that...

"...THE FIRST TIME THEY'D ACTUALLY ENTERTAINED THE POSSIBILITY OF THEIR MORTALITY...": FIRST FROST'S CRAIG JOHNSON

Craig Johnson's latest Walt Longmire novel, First Frost, has the sheriff both looking back and ahead. While dealing with with a...

CLASS STRUGGLES: ELI CRANOR'S BROILER

Eli Cranor is definitely an author on the rise. He got a lot of attention in the crime fiction world by using his background as a...

"EACH BOOK IS LIKE THERAPY FOR ME.": AN INTERVIEW WITH ASSASSINS ANONYMOUS' ROB HART

In Assassins Anonymous, creates an action packed summer read with humor and pathos as well. It follows Mark, struggling to put his old...

"...DISSATISFIED SOCIAL CRITIQUE AND BEAUTIFUL OPTIMISM.": BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE EDITORS T FOX DURHAM & MICHEL LEE GARRET

Burning Down The House is an exciting collection of crime stories all inspired by songs from The Talking Heads. Like the music, the short...

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