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JAMES WADE'S HOLLOW OUT THE DARK

James Wade has been steadily rising in notoriety within the literary community. His examinations of male identity carried by his rich...

"WE CAME TO GRIPS WITH MANY OF THESE CHANGES AND SETTLED INTO A NEW REALITY": PRIVATE DICKS AND DISCO BALLS EDITOR MICHAEL BRACKEN

Private Dicks and Disco Balls is a wonderful and fun anthology with detective tales that take place in the seventies. Tales touch on the...

BAD MEMORIES WE DON'T WANT TO FORGET: REED FARREL COLEMAN'S BLIND TO MIDNIGHT

For the many years I've known Reed Farrel Coleman, he would occasionally mention a true unsolved crime he wanted to utilize in his...

"...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...

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