In Chicago, during Prohibition, a crop of female killers became the biggest celebrities of the day.
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Comic Book Review: Time Bomb #1 by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Paul Gulacy
A Nazi biovirus and time travel - what more do ya need?
Read More »Book Review: Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk by The Association for Betterment of Sex
This is what happens when five guys get together to write a guide to sex.
Read More »Book Review: Agents of Treachery, Edited by Otto Penzler
Engaging stories filled with characters equally as compelling as their plots.
Read More »Hard Times for Hard Case Crime?
The hard-boiled fiction line faces some potential tough times in the struggling book pubbing climate.
Read More »Interview with Beverly McClure, author of Caves, Cannons, and Crinolines
"I had to tell their stories, not just about the war, but how it affected the women and children and their daily lives."
Read More »Manga Review: Itazura Na Kiss Volume One by Kaoru Tada
The mega-popular comic shojo romance gets its first U.S. edition.
Read More »An Interview with Karin Slaughter, Author of Broken
Karin Slaughter writes another fascinating, engaging thriller
Read More »Book Review: Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII’s Most Notorious Minister by Robert Hutchinson
Thomas Cromwell's Machiavellian rise to power in the court of Henry VIII and his fall from grace.
Read More »Book Review: The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature by Paul Collier
While the author's more self-aware than most, he's still an economist, with some enormous intellectual blindspots.
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