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CONTROVERSY IN THE COUNTRY: TERRY SHAME'S THE TROUBLING DEATH OF MADDY BENSON

Terry Shames Samuel Craddock books always reveal more depth than we usually associate with the small town mystery. Even though I have...

"WHEN ONE BROTHER IS SETTLED INTO SOME NORMACLY, ANOTHER IS LOSING A FAMILY MEMBER OR GETTING INTO A DUEL": FOUR AGAINST THE WEST'S JOE PAPALARDO

Joe Papalardo looks at the expansion of the American West by focusing on the lives of The Bean Brothers. While the youngest, Roy, built...

ANOTHER TRIP INTO ROUGH WEATHER: PATRICK DEAREN'S THE BIG DRY

Patrick Dearen won many admirers with The Big Drift. The Spur award winning novel chronicled the hard won friendship between black...

"SOMETIMES A PLACE CAN HAVE MANA...": HONOLULU NOIR'S CHRIS MCKINNEY

Honolulu Noir isone of the more unique additions to the Akashic Noir series. The Hawaiian capital serves as a unique city with a rich...

NICE PLACE TO VISIT, BUT...: JOHNNY D. BOGGS' BLOODY NEWTON

Johnny D, Boggs mines the old west for lesser known, yet no less important, histories for his novels. His last book, Longhorns East,used...

"YOU JUST PULL UP THE BOARDS AND FIND MORE PLOTS...": IRON STAR'S LOREN D. ESTLEMAN

Early this year, Loren Estleman released the book Iron Star to acclaim from critics and other western writers. He goes back to one of his...

FEAR AND MURDER IN LAS VEGAS: VICTOR METHOS' THE SILENT WATCHER

Victor Mathos fuses three different genres together with self-assured craftsmanship for The Silent Watcher. He mainly pulls this off...

"...THE DEFINITIVE RESONANCE OF COLD..." :TOOTH AND CLAW'S CRAIG JOHNSON

Craig Johnson always tries to do something different with each Walt Longmire book, but Craig went Monty Python and did something...

"...I LOVE THESE GUYS...": THE HIRED GUN'S STEVE HOCKENSMITH

I've known Steve Hockensmith for some some years. The last time we hung, he talked to me about wanting to write a more traditional...

A FAMILY OF SIDEWINDERS AND VERY TARNISHED SAINTS: JOE PAPPALARDO'S FOUR AGAINST THE WEST

Judge Roy Bean grew more into legend than historical figure. I've encountered more books with him as a fictional character than subject...

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