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"...THERE IS POWER MOVING IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS.": SACRAMENTO NOIR'S JOHN FREEMAN
The latest Akashic Noir anthology, Sacramento Noir, uses the city and it's collection of writers to deliver one of the most unique in the...
HARD LIFE (AND DEATH) IN THE HEARTLAND: MARCIE R. RENDON'S BROKEN FIELD
Marcie R. Rendon's Cash Blackbear came out of the rural mystery boom after the success of C.J. Box and Craig Johnson. The headstrong...
SHOTGUN BLAST FROM THE PAST: GARY PHILLIP'S VIOLENT SPRING
I once went to a screening of John Ford's Three Bad Men at L.A..'s Silent Movie Theater. Before the main show, Ford biographer Scott...
"...WE SEEM TO BE GETTING CLOSER TO THE NOIR I ENVISAGE.": GALWAY'S EDGE'S KEN BRUEN
In Galway's Edge Ken Bruen's Jack Taylor is hired by a Vatican troubleshooter to deal with a Galway preinst involved with Edge. when the...
A COWBOY TOUGH LADY:CHRISTA FAUST'S THE GET OFF
There is no book I waited for with more anticipation for than Christ Faust's The Get Off. The queen of pulp told me she was going to cap...
BEYOND THE SEA: AMBER WAVES OF AUTUMN edited by DAVID M. OLSEN
There is something about coastal life and crime fiction. Both Travis McGee and Tony Rome worked cases off of their houseboats and Kem...
"I WANT TO SEE THE IMPACT ON NOT ONLY THE VICTIM, BUT THE PERPETRATOR.": REAL BAD, REAL SOON'S ERIC BEETNER
In Real Bad, Real Soon Eric Beetner revisits Carter McCoy, a retiree who becomes a vigilante when given a diagnosis that he his dying....
OLD FRIENDS: STEVE KELTON & JOHN BRADHAW'S ELMER KELTON'S THE FAMILIAR STRANGER
One of my favorite characters in western fiction is Elmer Kelton's Huey Calloway. The turn of the last century saddle tramp who rarely...
DARK DEALINGS UNDER THE CALIFORNIA SUN: SACRAMENTO NOIR edited by JOHN FREEMAN
At this point in the Akashic "City Noir" series, when a new title is announced, I think one of two things, "I can't believe they didn't...
"...LOSING TRACK OF GOD, LOSING TRACK OF PURPOSE IN LIFE...": SAINT OF NARROWS STREET'S WILLIAM BOYLE
Few crime authors capture community like William Boyle. He captures a working class Brooklyn, mainly on the turn of the millenium. In his...
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