It’s the spring of 1981 and Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy has just been transferred to Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. While the …Read the Rest
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Quote for the Day II: Warren Zevon & Vicki Hendricks sitting in a tree…?
Here’s an interesting line from Warren Zevon’s bio: “We ate at Hard Rock where I sat next to him and …Read the Rest
Hurt Machine by Reed Farrel Coleman – review
In Hurt Machine (Tyrus Books) Reed Farrel Coleman’s continuing private eye series, ex-cop Moe Prager investigates the execution style murder …Read the Rest
Quote for the Day: Patton Oswald on Derek Raymond
Can you recommend a good book? A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan is really good. James Ellroy’s …Read the Rest
Double-D Double Cross by Christa Faust – review
Butch Fatale is an ex-cop and down-and-out PI living in East Los Angeles. She’s also a butch lesbian omnivore, down …Read the Rest
Frank Sinatra in a Blender by Matthew McBride – review
With the amount of Top Ten lists it made in 2011, Matthew McBride and his debut novel aren’t exactly unknown …Read the Rest
The American Road Novel by Ryan David Jahn
Like the blues, the road novel is an American form. While we might not be alone in writing them, the …Read the Rest
Wee Rockets by Gerard Brennan – review
Fourteen-year-old Joe Phillips is leaving the Wee Rockets. It was a fun gig for a while, him and his mates …Read the Rest
Enter, Night by Michael Rowe – review
Toronto’s ChiZine Publishing is known for their strange, dark, and industrial type thrillers—novels considered too disturbing for mainstream publishers—and it’s …Read the Rest
Friday’s Forgotten Books: Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet
Thierry Jonquet was a French crime writer who died in 2009 at the age of of 55. Tarantula was published …Read the Rest
Mercury Tilt by Adrian McKinty
Mercury Tilt by Adrian McKinty My new crime novel, The Cold Cold Ground is set in Northern Ireland in 1981 …Read the Rest
Drawing Dead by JJ DeCeglie – review
PI Jack Andrelli’s done with this shit. His girlfriend offed herself in his bathtub and now he’s just fucking done. …Read the Rest
Collusion by Stuart Neville – review
This follow-up to the highly praised “The Ghosts of Belfast” deserves the same reception. It picks up where the earlier …Read the Rest
Buried Prey by John Sandford – review
Discovery of the bodies of two young girls, murdered 25 years earlier, sets the stage for a look at the …Read the Rest
Rag and Bone by James R. Benn – review
Last year, the Russian Parliament acknowledged that country’s responsibility for the slaughter of more than 20,000 Polish officers at the …Read the Rest
Trick of the Dark by Val McDermid – review
As the book opens, Dr. Charlotte [“Charlie”] Flint finds her professional life as a forensic psychiatrist in tatters, her reputation …Read the Rest
Stolen Lives by Jassy Mackenzie – review
Four subplots coalesce in this second novel featuring Jade de Jong, the South African PI who makes her home in …Read the Rest
The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina – review
Each of the first three chapters of this newest novel by Denise Mina, author of the Garnethill trilogy among other …Read the Rest
Kiss Her Goodbye by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins – review
When Mickey Spillane died, he left behind a treasure trove of manuscripts, plot notes, rough outlines, character notes and drafts …Read the Rest
Sixkill by Robert B. Parker – review
To quote some of the immortal words of the Bard, “I come to praise” Robert B. Parker, and, of course, …Read the Rest
