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Book Review: The Twenty-Year Death by Ariel S. Winter
An epic crime novel channels the voices of three masters of the form.
Read More »Book Review: False Negative by Joseph Koenig
The veteran crime writer returns to the genre after a two decade absence.
Read More »Book Review: Blood on the Mink by Robert Silverberg
A hard-boiled piece of crime fiction from the s-f master gets issued for the first time in book form.
Read More »Book Review: The Comedy Is Finished by Donald E. Westlake
Posthumous Westlake proves a strong addition to his considerable bibliography.
Read More »Book Review: The Consummata by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
A posthumous "collaboration" brings back a Spillane hero from the sixties.
Read More »Book Review: Quarry’s Ex by Max Allan Collins
The hitman's hitman returns to protect the husband of his duplicitous ex.
Read More »Book Review: Choke Hold by Christa Faust
Former porn star and unprotected witness Angel Dare returns in a second Hard Case Crime adventure.
Read More »Book Review: Getting Off by Lawrence Block (Writing as Jill Emerson)
The author of the Matt Scudder novels takes on a cross-country trek with a shapely serial killer.
Read More »Book Review: Top of the Heap by Erle Stanley Gardner (A.A. Fair)
A private eye novel from the creator of Perry Mason gets its first publication in thirty years.
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