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"...YOU'LL SOMETIMES FIND YOURSELF CROSSING THOSE "BOUNDARIES" AND IT'S PERFECTLY OKAY...":THE HONORABLE ASSASSIN'S STEVE HAMILTON
Steve Hamilton's The Honorable Assassin is the third book to feature Nick Mason, an ex con who made a deal for early release, to learn...
"...I GREW AS A WRITER TO MAKE IT WORK.": BLIND TO MIDNIGHT'S REED FARREL COLEMAN
Reed Farrel Coleman's second book to feature Nick Ryan, a "fixer" in the NYPD, looks at the city and it's emotions both communal and in...
"... I FEEL HAP TALKING TO ME...": SUGAR ON THE BONES' JOE R. LANSDALE
Joe R, Lansdale has come back to his characters of Hap & Leonard or as he refers to them, "The Boys". Not only does the white liberal...
STRANGE DARK TIMES FROM NOT LONG AGO: ATTICA LOCKE'S GUIDE ME HOME
Attica Locke's Highway 59 series gives us a look at a Texas we rarely see. African American Texas Ranger Darren Matthews has taken us...
A GREAT ACTION MOVIE TO READ: STEVE HAMILTON'S THE HONORABLE ASSASSIN
Steve Hamilton's Nick Mason series slides into something different with each book, The first one, The Second Life Of Nick Mason, with the...
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...
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