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"HE IS BASIC AND PRIMAL BUT HE'S NOT STUPID": BUSTER'S GEORGE PELECANOS

In Buster, George Pelecanos takes a look at a human microcosm in Washington D.C. through the eyes of a boxer dog. As Buster goes from...

A HARD, DARK COMFORT: WALTER MOSLEY'S FAREWELL, AMETHYSTINE

Walter Mosley'S latest Easy Rawlins mystery, FAREWELL, AMETHYSTINE operates as a version of hard boiled comfort food. The plot even gets...

GOD, VIOLENCE, COMMERCE, AND BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY: BOB DRURY'S AND TOM CLAVIN'S THRONE OF GRACE

Both separately and in collaborations, Tom Clavin and and Bob Drury have written non-fiction about complex and capable men involved in a...

"SETTING WAS MY POINT OF DEPARTURE": BLOOD RUBIE'S MAILAN DOQUANG

Blood Rubie is a debut thriller by Mailan Doquang that sparkles with different facets like the items it's heroine Rune Sarasin steals....

MYSTERIES OF YOUTH AND MURDER: CRAIG JOHNSON'S FIRST FROST

First Frost is the twentieth novel in Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series. By using a tried and true practice of two timelines, he takes...

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...

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