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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...

EVERYTHING AND THE KITCHEN SINK SUSPENSE: ACE ATKINS' DON'T LET THE DEVIL RIDE

When I reviewed Ace Atkins' first Quinn Colson novel, The Ranger, I described it as the author taking everything he loved from film and...

POWDER BURNER ODYSSEY: ROBERT PEECHER'S ALONG THE WESTERN TRAIL

Along The Restless Trail is the first installment of a western trilogy from Robert Peecher. This first novel promises an action packed...

"THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS TO AUTHENTICITY": THRONE OF GRACE'S BOB DRURY & TOM CLAVIN

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's Throne Of Grace is an exciting history that also works as a complex adventure story. It investigates the...

HEART OF THE HUNTERS: SHADOW HEART BY MEG GARDINER

Shadow Heart is the latest in Meg Gardiner's UNSUB series, featuring FBI profiler Caitlin Hendrix. The series is one of those great...

SOUTHERN SINS: ERYK PRUITT'S BLOOD RED SUMMER

Blood Red Summer is the Eryk Pruitt's second book t o feature pocaster Jess Keeler. HIs earlier work was often Jim Thompson style shaggy...

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