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WALKING THE BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS: DANIEL WEIZMAN'S CINNAMON GIRL
The Last Songbird became one of my favorite debuts of 2023. Author Daniel Weizman followed Adam "Addy" zintz, a wanna-be songwriter and...
"...HE LIKED ALMOST EVERYONE HE ENCOUNTERED AS LONG AS THEY WEREN'T UNKIND TO A HORSE." : AN INTERVIEW WITH SON OF THE OLD WEST'S NATHAN WARD
After writing one of the best books on Dashiell Hammett, The Lost Detective, Nathan Ward tackled the life of a writer/detective from a...
THE WOOLRICH WORLD OF GUILT, PASSION, & DESPERATION: INTO THE NIGHT by CORNELL WOOLRICH & LAWRENCE BLOCK
Hard Case Crime recently brought back an interesting curio from thirty years ago. Into The Night was an unfinished manuscript by Cornell...
THIS AIN'T NO DISCO: BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE edited by MICHEL LEE GARRET & T. FOX DUNHAM
Short story anthologies inspired by a musician's songbook have become their own subgenre . They allow writers to pay tribute and the...
"SEATTLE WAS A CITY DIVIDED.": AN INTERVIEW WITH A KILLING ON THE HILL'S ROBERT DUGONI
When Robert Dugoni opened up a scrapbook of his wife's attorney grandfather, it sent him into researching one of his cases and using it...
A READER'S BEST FRIEND: GEORGE PELECANOS' BUSTER: A DOG
Animal stories like Black Beauty and Call Of The Wild offer a unique reading experience. They give us a look at our society from,...
DEATH AND DESPERATION IN A SMALL TOWN: LAURA MCHUGH'S SAFE AND SOUND
I have been meaning to pick up one of Laura McHugh's books for some time. She sounded like a cross between two of my favorite writers,...
SPARKLE & GRIT: MAILAN DOQUANG'S BLOOD RUBIES
Blood Rubies announces the fiction debut of Mailan Doquang. She examines the international jewel smuggling as well as using it for an...
WRITING ON THE RANGE: NATHAN WARD'S SON OF THE OLD WEST
Nathan Ward wrote The Last Detective: On Becoming Dashiell Hammett, one of my favorite books about the author. It focused on his time at...
"...MAKE THAT LICK AND MAKE IT COUNT": AN INTERVIEW WITH ASH DARK AS NIGHT'S GARY PHILLIPS
Gary Phillip's second "One Shot Harry" Ingram novel, Ash Dark As Night, is another perfect example of the writer proving how you can be...
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