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Archive for June, 2010
Too Small To Be Big by Simon Wood
by Simon Wood I’ll never be a bestselling author. It was never my intention. Seriously, it wasn’t. I just wanted …Read the Rest
DEVIL’S KEEP by Phillip Finch – review
Bravo Cell One Nine was a covert team, a secret entity trained by American security and intelligence agencies, put together …Read the Rest
The Deputy by Victor Gischler – review
The setting for this book is Coyote Crossing, a sleepy little town in western Oklahoma whose young people generally share …Read the Rest
Friday’s Forgotten Books: Four Corners of Night by Craig Holden
I had read another of Holden’s books years ago so when I read Craig McDonald’s Friday’s Forgotten Book post on …Read the Rest
Character traits in Windward Passage by Jim Nisbet
I’m reading Windward Passage by Jim Nisbet and it’s got me thinking about character traits. In it there is a …Read the Rest
Infamous by Ace Atkins – Review
Some pretty fucking swell authors have taken a swing at the Depression-era gangster novel over the years, and many of those …Read the Rest
Quote for the Day
While pursuing another line of thought I found this line in an interview with Walter Hill. It’s an interesting and …Read the Rest
Crime Song Wednesday – Black River Killer by Blitzen Trapper
There are at least two readings in this brilliantly written Cormac McCarthy inspired song. The first is simply that we …Read the Rest
Winter’s Bone contest winner
Congrats to Chris La Tray. He just scored himself a copy of the tie in edition of Winter’s Bone plus …Read the Rest
Dennis Tafoya – Interview
Recently, New Jersey’s favorite beach bum, Kieran Shea, sat down with Spinetingler favorite Dennis Tafoya to talk up Tafoya’s latest …Read the Rest
Peter Temple wins $42k prize in Miles Franklin award
Yowza! Now that’s a prize worth winning. Peter Temple won the Miles Franklin award for his crime novel Truth. The …Read the Rest
The Wolves of Fairmount Park by Dennis Tafoya – review
Dope Thief by Dennis Tafoya was one of the best debut crime novels last year. Dark and unflinching but not …Read the Rest
The Third Rail by Michael Harvey – review
Chicago is Michael Kelly’s home turf, and in the past two novels in the series, some historical incident is the …Read the Rest
Writing Contest: Pay The Bitch Back
Payback’s a bitch, right? A little while back, a writer managed to annoy the fiction editorial staff of Spinetingler. Well, …Read the Rest
Tony by Gerard Johnson – Review
An awkward man approaches an Asian man on the street selling black market DVDs to passersby. He tries to engage …Read the Rest
Stephen Blackmoore is bookless no more
A couple of days late but it still bears mentioning. We love it when one of the Bookless leaves that …Read the Rest
Quote for the Day
DT: I walked on that movie set as a drug counselor. I was helping this kid I was counseling. He …Read the Rest
A Gerry Fegan what?: Remembering not to judge a book by its cover
I received a copy of the SOHO catalog in the mail the other day and saw the listing for The …Read the Rest
Video Interview–Stephen Jay Schwartz
by Eric Beetner Spinetingler’s man in the city of Angels, Eric Beetner, is at it again with another video interview. …Read the Rest
