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Truman Capote’s “Another Day in Paradise”

Truman Capote’s Another Day in Paradise is a recently rediscovered work by the well known literary figure. It leans more toward his society work than the material found within In Cold Blood. It deals with Iris Greentree, a bitter woman … Continue reading

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Peter James’ Stop Them Dead

Peter James’ Stop Them Dead is another in a very long-running series, and chooses to focus on a murder connected to a specific subset of crime to give it some novelty. A small family is making ends meet partly by … Continue reading

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A.F. Carter’s The Yards: A Novel

A.F. Carter’s The Yards: A Novel of Suspense is an excellent example of neo noir. Following the lives of a number of figures in a failing town named Baxter, the death of a junkie leads them to intersect as the … Continue reading

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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman’s Burning Distance

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman’s Burning Distance is a new volume from an experienced and multi-talented hand. Sold as a thriller, and dealing with events surrounding, before and shortly after the original Gulf War there is little in the way of avoiding calling … Continue reading

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Lindsey Davis’ Fatal Legacy

Fatal Legacy is the latest in Lindsey Davis’ Flavia Albia series. Once again featuring our lead working as a private investigator of sorts, the book starts as one of the lower stakes cases she has encountered. However, like many such … Continue reading

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Jode Millman’s The Empty Kayak

Jodé Millman’s The Empty Kayak is the third in a series starring police detective Ebony Jones. With a title that makes the coming action seem obvious, the book relies heavily on twisting and character to keep reader interest. The police … Continue reading

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Kim Harrison’s For A Few Demons More

I love history. But I really, really love alternate history. You know, taking the world and tweaking the timeline it a little. And perhaps putting in a few things that don’t exist in the world as we know it. For … Continue reading

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Earl F. Bargainnier’s The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie

Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. I have one serious problem with this book – the typeface. The main text itself is fine, but long quotations, as well as the notes, are in tiny, tiny, tiny type. Even with progressive … Continue reading

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Blake Bell’s I Have to Live With this Guy!

Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. The first thing you read in the “About the Author” section on the last page of I Have to Live With this Guy! is “Blake Bell has killed a guy.” I don’t know whether … Continue reading

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Holly Black’s Ironside

In her book At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, and Other Troublesome Things, Diane Purkiss gives her readers a chilling glimpse of the fairy world through the eyes of the title character in the … Continue reading

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