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SHOTGUN BLAST FROM THE PAST: ED MCBAIN'S COP HATER
Author Evan Hunter launched his influential 87th Precinct series under the pseudonym of Ed McBain in 1956 with Cop Hater . I had read...
"SOMETIMES THERE'S MORE POWER IN IN THE SILENCE IN BETWEEN THE WORDS THAN THEN WORDS THEMSELVES.": THE MEMORY WARD'S JON BASOFF
Jon Basoff uses a Rod Serling starting point for his latest novel, The Memory Ward, where mailman Hank Davies learns that his typical...
SHOTGUN BLAST FROM THE PAST: JOSEPH HANSEN'S SKINFLICK
Skinflick is the fifth book in Joseph Hansen's Dave Brandstetter series. Considered to be the first gay private detective, we find the...
CRACKING CASES IN THE REAGAN ERA: SLEUTHS JUST WANNA' HAVE FUN- PRIVATE EYES IN THE MATERIALISTIC EIGHTIES edited by Michel Bracken
The eighties were an interesting time for fictional private eyes. V.I. Warshawski and Kinsey Millhone broke the glass ceiling. The...
"ALMOST EVERYONE HAS SOME PROFESSIONAL OR INTENSE PERSONAL TIE TO MUSIC.": 120 MURDERS' NICK MAMATAS
Nick Mamatas, a master craftsman of crime and dark fiction in his own right, gathered almost two dozen gifted writers of various...
MICHEL LEE GARRET'S BORN A RAMBLING MAN AND OTHER STORIES
Michel Lee Garrett has been chopping her way through the short fiction jungle with her two-fixted tales. She has appeared in many...
CRIME & PROG POP: IN TOO DEEP: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs Of Genesis edited by Adam Meyer
When I first heard about the anthology In Too Deep that featured crime stories inspired by the songs of Genesis, focusing on the Phil...
"IT'S HISTORY WITH A PULSE...": DIRTY LITTLE WAR'S DIETRICH KALTEIS
In Dirty Little War Dietrich Kalteis dives into Roaring Twenties Chicago with Huck Waller a bare knuckles fighter who leaves New Orleans...
LITTLE BIG MAN BY WAY OF CTHULHU: STEPHEN GRAHAM JONE'S THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER
Stephen Graham Jones' The Buffalo Hunter Hunter created huge buzz even before it arrived. One of the most lauded horror writers with a...
SMALL TOWN U.S.A. BY WAY OF ROD SERLING AND DAVID LYNCH: JON BASSOFF'S THE MEMORY WARD
Like his friend Gabino Iglesias, Jon Bassoff is one of the masters at mixing genres. He fuses crime, thriller, horror, and at times...
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