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MOTHER OF BROOKLYN: WILLIAM BOYLE'S SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET

THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF GENOCIDE, SOME CREATED OUT OF GOOD INTENTIONS: JOHNS SAYLES TO SAVE THE MAN

"PROFESSIONAL FAN-FICTION": CONAN: CULT OF THE OBSIDIAN MOON'S JAMES LOVEGROVE

MOTHER OF BROOKLYN: WILLIAM BOYLE'S SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET

William Boyle is one of the most exciting up and coming authors out there. He chronicles a Brooklyn of the recent past and the hold it...

THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF GENOCIDE, SOME CREATED OUT OF GOOD INTENTIONS: JOHNS SAYLES TO SAVE THE MAN

An example of the sad state of the film industry today is John Sayles has difficulty in getting his his movies made. The silver lining is...

"PROFESSIONAL FAN-FICTION": CONAN: CULT OF THE OBSIDIAN MOON'S JAMES LOVEGROVE

James Lovegrove wrote the one prose story connected to Titan Comics Black Stone Sage featuring Conan with other Robert E, Howard...

THE OTHER FAMOUS AMOS: LOREN D. ESTLEMAN'S SMOKE ON THE WATER

The Amos Walker books are some of the best examples of comfort food crime fiction. Author Loren D. Estleman whips up hard boiled meat and...

ROBERT PEECHER'S THE LAST TWO MEXICAN TRAILS

Last summer, I read and reviewed the first of Robert Peecher's, Along The Restless Trail, the tale of Tommy Duvall, a good cowboy with a...

"THE LEGAL SYSTEM THE SILENT WATCHER'S VICTOR METHOS

Pipers Danes, a guardian as litem in the Las Vegas court system, representing young crime victims is at The center of Victor Methos new...

FAMILY & MURDER: WALTER MOSLEY'S BEEN WRONG SO LONG IT FEELS LIKE RIGHT

Few authors know the private eye novel so well and use that knowledge to bend the genre to their will like Walter Mosley. He employs his...

JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE PARANOID, DOESN'T MEAN...: ALISON GAYLIN'S WE ARE WATCHING

Few authors engage with the here and now like Alison Gaylin. Her work often connects with current social and entertainment media, linking...

"IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THE PEOPLE": BLOODY NEWTON'S JOHNNY D. BOGGS

Johnny D. Boggs combines an infamous real life gunfight and three fictional characters, a Texas trail boss, a reporter, and a restaurater...

COMFORT CRIME FICTION: ROBERT CRAIS' THE BIG EMPTY

Robert Crais' Elvis Cole and Joe Pike have proven to be one of the most successful private eye dous currently operating in crime fiction....

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MOTHER OF BROOKLYN: WILLIAM BOYLE'S SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET

THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF GENOCIDE, SOME CREATED OUT OF GOOD INTENTIONS: JOHNS SAYLES TO SAVE THE MAN

"PROFESSIONAL FAN-FICTION": CONAN: CULT OF THE OBSIDIAN MOON'S JAMES LOVEGROVE

MOTHER OF BROOKLYN: WILLIAM BOYLE'S SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET

THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF GENOCIDE, SOME CREATED OUT OF GOOD INTENTIONS: JOHNS SAYLES TO SAVE THE MAN

"PROFESSIONAL FAN-FICTION": CONAN: CULT OF THE OBSIDIAN MOON'S JAMES LOVEGROVE

THE OTHER FAMOUS AMOS: LOREN D. ESTLEMAN'S SMOKE ON THE WATER

ROBERT PEECHER'S THE LAST TWO MEXICAN TRAILS

"THE LEGAL SYSTEM THE SILENT WATCHER'S VICTOR METHOS

FAMILY & MURDER: WALTER MOSLEY'S BEEN WRONG SO LONG IT FEELS LIKE RIGHT

JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE PARANOID, DOESN'T MEAN...: ALISON GAYLIN'S WE ARE WATCHING

"IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THE PEOPLE": BLOODY NEWTON'S JOHNNY D. BOGGS

COMFORT CRIME FICTION: ROBERT CRAIS' THE BIG EMPTY

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