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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

RETURNING TO A THRILLING MYSTERY OF YESTERYEAR: HUNTERS OF THE DEAD BY STEVE HOCKENSMITH

Steve Hockensmith's Holmes On The Range series has rightly earned a devoted following. The books follow the adventures of two cowboys,...

"... NOSTALGIA, PARANOIA, AND A CERTAIN SIMPLICITY OF IDEA: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOE R. LANSDALE

This month Joe R. Lansdale takes us back in several ways this month. In his novella, Shooting Star, he creates and late show alien...

24 FRAME HORROR ON THE PAGE: DRIVE IN: THE MULTIPLEX

Few books hit readers like Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive In, a tale of a Texas six-screen drive in theater, The Orbit, that descends into...

JOE R. ATTACKS!: SHOOTING STAR BY JOE R. LANSDALE

In Shooting Star, Joe R. Lansdale serves us a novella perfectly timed for release in the Halloween season. He writes a love letter to the...

"TO HONOR MY SON": AN INTERVIEW WITH TRICKY'S JOSH STALLINGS

Josh Stallings Tricky became one of my favorite books in the last few years. It follows Neils Madsen, an LAPD detective from the cowboy...

"...AT ONCE SINISTER AND FULL OF LIFE." : AN INTERVIEW WITH THE STOLEN COAST'S DWYER MURPHY

Dwyer Murphy's The Stolen Coast is a cockeyed, humanist take on the hard boiled tale of a heist, fem fatale and laconic man drawn to...

IT AIN'T SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON: FORT MISERY BY WILLIAM W. JOHNSTONE AND J.A. JOHNSTONE

When we think of the calvary in westerns, most of us have a Frederick Remington/John Ford picture in our mind of men riding across the...

SHOTGUN BLAST FROM THE PAST: A HAVEN FOR THE DAMNED by HARRY WHITTINGTON

When Stark House Press started their Black Gat series of pocket size paperback reprints, picking Harry Whittington's A Haven For The...

"BEING DRAGGED INTO THE DANGER" :DEAD BY PROXY'S MANNING WOLFE

Manning Wolfe's Dead By Proxy is a fun, pulpy legal thriller with a New York lawyer taking on the identity of his murdered friend Quinton...

LAWYERS, MOBSTERS, AND A SOCIALITE MURDER SUSPECT: MANNING WOLFE'S DEAD BY PROXY

Manning Wolfe's series featuring Merit Bridges can be described as "Grisham lite.". That is not an insult. The books serve as...

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