I usually don’t give a shit about Westerns. I don’t care about Lonesome Dove or Louis L’Amour. I find the …Read the Rest
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Pick-Up by Charles Willeford – review
Before this book I hadn’t read any Willeford. I had often heard him mentioned in the same breath as David …Read the Rest
Strip Poker by Joyce Carol Oates from Give Me Your Heart – review
Reviewed by S. MacDonald I don’t know anything about Joyce Carol Oates. Nothing. I’ve never stumbled across any article about …Read the Rest
Shooters by Terrill Lankford – review
Shooters is complete trash. It’s smutty, sleazy, violent, obvious, and unnecessarily slick. It’s the 90s as crime fiction. Simply put, …Read the Rest
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk – review
Most everyone I know has either read the book or seen the movie so I apologize in advance if I …Read the Rest
Sanctuary by William Faulkner – review
I hate this book. This review will be completely biased and one sided. I’d also like to stress that this …Read the Rest
The Last Spin by Evan Hunter from Best American Noir of the Century – review
Evan Hunter’s “The Last Spin” was first published in the September 1956 issue of Manhunt and I suspect that may …Read the Rest
Off Season by Jack Ketchum – review
I read this book for the first time two years ago and was floored at how much I enjoyed something …Read the Rest
Red Harvest by Dashiel Hammett – review
I apologize if this seems like blasphemy. The Continental Op is hired by Poisonville local Donald Wilsson but Wilsson is …Read the Rest
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain – review
This book has been written about for close to 80 years so there probably isn’t anything I can contribute to …Read the Rest
Death Wish by Brian Garfield – review
There is something so refreshingly simple about a man (or woman in the case of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance or …Read the Rest
Downtown by Ed McBain – review
The only McBain novels I’ve read are I’m Canon-For Hire/The Gutter and the Grave, Cop Hater, and The Mugger; the …Read the Rest
