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"SETTING WAS MY POINT OF DEPARTURE": BLOOD RUBIE'S MAILAN DOQUANG
Blood Rubie is a debut thriller by Mailan Doquang that sparkles with different facets like the items it's heroine Rune Sarasin steals....
MYSTERIES OF YOUTH AND MURDER: CRAIG JOHNSON'S FIRST FROST
First Frost is the twentieth novel in Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series. By using a tried and true practice of two timelines, he takes...
WALKING THE BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS: DANIEL WEIZMAN'S CINNAMON GIRL
The Last Songbird became one of my favorite debuts of 2023. Author Daniel Weizman followed Adam "Addy" zintz, a wanna-be songwriter and...
"...HE LIKED ALMOST EVERYONE HE ENCOUNTERED AS LONG AS THEY WEREN'T UNKIND TO A HORSE." : AN INTERVIEW WITH SON OF THE OLD WEST'S NATHAN WARD
After writing one of the best books on Dashiell Hammett, The Lost Detective, Nathan Ward tackled the life of a writer/detective from a...
THE WOOLRICH WORLD OF GUILT, PASSION, & DESPERATION: INTO THE NIGHT by CORNELL WOOLRICH & LAWRENCE BLOCK
Hard Case Crime recently brought back an interesting curio from thirty years ago. Into The Night was an unfinished manuscript by Cornell...
THIS AIN'T NO DISCO: BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE edited by MICHEL LEE GARRET & T. FOX DUNHAM
Short story anthologies inspired by a musician's songbook have become their own subgenre . They allow writers to pay tribute and the...
"SEATTLE WAS A CITY DIVIDED.": AN INTERVIEW WITH A KILLING ON THE HILL'S ROBERT DUGONI
When Robert Dugoni opened up a scrapbook of his wife's attorney grandfather, it sent him into researching one of his cases and using it...
A READER'S BEST FRIEND: GEORGE PELECANOS' BUSTER: A DOG
Animal stories like Black Beauty and Call Of The Wild offer a unique reading experience. They give us a look at our society from,...
DEATH AND DESPERATION IN A SMALL TOWN: LAURA MCHUGH'S SAFE AND SOUND
I have been meaning to pick up one of Laura McHugh's books for some time. She sounded like a cross between two of my favorite writers,...
SPARKLE & GRIT: MAILAN DOQUANG'S BLOOD RUBIES
Blood Rubies announces the fiction debut of Mailan Doquang. She examines the international jewel smuggling as well as using it for an...
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