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OLD FRIENDS: STEVE KELTON & JOHN BRADHAW'S ELMER KELTON'S THE FAMILIAR STRANGER

DARK DEALINGS UNDER THE CALIFORNIA SUN: SACRAMENTO NOIR edited by JOHN FREEMAN

"...LOSING TRACK OF GOD, LOSING TRACK OF PURPOSE IN LIFE...": SAINT OF NARROWS STREET'S WILLIAM BOYLE

WELCOME TO THE BOOMTOWN: AXLE BUST CREEK BY JOHN SHIRLEY

Axle Bust Creek kicks off a new series featuring tough as nails miner and sheriff Cleve Trewe, However the titular town serves as a major...

NOT YOUR NORMAL TRAIL DRIVE: LONGHORNS EAST BY JOHNNY BOGGS

For most of us western fans, there is something undeniable about a cattle drive. It's a call to adventure with a collective attempting a...

GOING DUTCH PART 1- ELMORE LEONARD'S FIRST SHORT STORIES

This will be the first is a series looking at the career of one of the finest genre authors, Elmore Leonard, through his novels, some of...

"BUT FRANKLY, I FELT I WAS PRETTY CONSISTENT.": AN INTERVIEW WITH THINGS GET UGLY'S JOE R LANSDALE

Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Stories Of Joe R. Lansdale is a collection that covers the author's over four decade career by looking at...

"...A RESPONSIBILITY TO CONVEY SOME KIND OF ATMOSPHERE...": THE DARK EDGE OF NIGHT'S MARK PRYOR

The Dark Edge Of Night Mark Pryor's second novel to feature Henri Leforts, a police detective working Paris' occupied streets takes him...

"THE MIX OF CLASSES": AN INTERVIEW WITH CLEVELAND NOIR CO-EDITOR MICHAEL RUHLMAN

Cleveland Noir is the latest Akashic Noir book to look at a city through a crime fiction lense and this one has a very noirish history....

A LIFE OF CRIME (FICTION): THINGS GET UGLY BY JOE LANSDALE

Joe Lansdale first established himself through short stories. Even though the horror community first claimed his work, he also wrote...

BETWEEN A ROCK AND NAZIS: THE DARK EDGE OF NIGHT BY MARK PRYOR

Mark Pryor introduced us to Inspector Henrei Leforts in Die Around Sundown. A police detective in German occupied Paris proved to be a...

"I RARELY WRITE ABOUT ROMANTICS" : AN INTERVIEW WITH THE SECOND MURDERER'S DENISE MINA

Denise Mina often looks at crime and corruption in her home of Glasgow, but she recently visited thirties L..A. with the famous P.I....

FIVE MOVIES THAT INSPIRED LOWDOWN ROAD BY SCOTT VON DOVIAK

Scott Von Dokiak's Low Down Road from Hard Case Crime is tribute to the seventies and their gonzo exploitation flicks of fast cars,...

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