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"...DISSATISFIED SOCIAL CRITIQUE AND BEAUTIFUL OPTIMISM.": BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE EDITORS T FOX DURHAM & MICHEL LEE GARRET

Burning Down The House is an exciting collection of crime stories all inspired by songs from The Talking Heads. Like the music, the short...

EVERYTHING AND THE KITCHEN SINK SUSPENSE: ACE ATKINS' DON'T LET THE DEVIL RIDE

When I reviewed Ace Atkins' first Quinn Colson novel, The Ranger, I described it as the author taking everything he loved from film and...

POWDER BURNER ODYSSEY: ROBERT PEECHER'S ALONG THE WESTERN TRAIL

Along The Restless Trail is the first installment of a western trilogy from Robert Peecher. This first novel promises an action packed...

"THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS TO AUTHENTICITY": THRONE OF GRACE'S BOB DRURY & TOM CLAVIN

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's Throne Of Grace is an exciting history that also works as a complex adventure story. It investigates the...

HEART OF THE HUNTERS: SHADOW HEART BY MEG GARDINER

Shadow Heart is the latest in Meg Gardiner's UNSUB series, featuring FBI profiler Caitlin Hendrix. The series is one of those great...

SOUTHERN SINS: ERYK PRUITT'S BLOOD RED SUMMER

Blood Red Summer is the Eryk Pruitt's second book t o feature pocaster Jess Keeler. HIs earlier work was often Jim Thompson style shaggy...

"...MY STORY CAN ALSO TURN INTO A PLAYLIST.": CINNAMON GIRL'S DANIEL WEIZMAN

Daniel Wiezman's sophomore effort, Cinnamon Girl, has Lyft driver Addy Zantz helping out his old piano teacher clear the name of his...

A MUSEUM OF NOIR THRILLS: THE STARK HOUSE ANTHOLOGY edited by RICK OLLERMAN and GREGORY SHEPARD

For twenty-five years, Stark House Press has been doing work for the hard boiled gods and deities of other fiction as well. They...

ACTION & EMOTION: ROB HART'S ASSASSINS ANONYMOUS

Rob Hart practices his own style of pulp humanism. He takes some of the wildest and over the top story ideas, delivering on the...

HARD LAND AND CHARACTERS: JAMES ROBERT DANIELS' JANE FURY

Cutting Edge, a press I like, sent me a copy of Jane Fury by my fellow Austinite James Robert Daniels, so I felt the need to read it....

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