Tag Archives: noir

David Downing’s Zoo Station and Silesian Station

Posted on 10th September 2023 by Donna Bird

I ran across a reference to Zoo Station while browsing the web. I was looking up another book about Germany during World War II and the Amazon search engine gave me this title as a recommendation. It sounded interesting, and … Continue reading →

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Tove Alsterdal’s You Will Never Be Found

Posted on 21st January 2023 by Warner Holme

Tove Altserdal’s You Will Never Be Found is the second book featuring her detective Eira Sjödin. As a sequel to We Know you Remember, this book has a lot to live up to given that volume’s slate of awards. In … Continue reading →

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Roger Zelazny’s The Dead Man’s Brother

Posted on 23rd November 2022 by Aptil Gutierrez

This long-lost little gem of a thriller from the great Roger Zelazny starts with a bang. Er, well, with a body on the kitchen floor. With a rather substantial knife sticking out of it. The kitchen floor (and knife) belong … Continue reading →

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The Shadow

Posted on 17th September 2022 by Cat Eldridge

Margo: “Oh God. I dreamed.” Lamont: “So did I. What did you dream?” Margo: “I was lying naked on a beach in the South Seas. The tide was coming up to my toes. The sun was moving down. My skin … Continue reading →

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James Kestrel’s The Five Decembers

Posted on 5th June 2022 by Warner Holme

James Kestrel’s The Five Decembers is a fascinating noir detective story intersecting with the war story. From a proven writer and featuring a great assortment of mystery and action, it represents an excellent new work in the historical crime genre. … Continue reading →

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Steven Erikson’s The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Vols. 1-5

Posted on 7th March 2018 by Robert

Gardens of the Moon Deadhouse Gates Memories of Ice House of Chains Midnight Tides I’ve been listening to Richard Wagner’s Der Ring Des Nibelungen and I’ve been reading Midnight Tides, book five of Steven Erikson’s The Malazan Book of the … Continue reading →

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Glen Cook’s Working God’s Mischief

Posted on 7th March 2018 by Robert

Working God’s Mischief is the fourth installment in Glen Cook’s Instrumentalities of the Night. It’s hard to know how to lead into this one, so I’m going to let Cook do it: Arnhand, Castauriga, and Navaya lost their kings. The … Continue reading →

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Glen Cook’s The Many Deaths of the Black Company (Water Sleeps, Soldiers Live)

Posted on 27th December 2017 by Robert

If you stop think about it, it’s rather remarkable that a living writer of speculative fiction finds himself with reissues of seemingly all of his earlier works hitting the market while he’s working on new ones. I think it says … Continue reading →

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Glen Cook’s The Return of the Black Company (Bleak Seasons, She Is the Darkness)

Posted on 27th December 2017 by Robert

The Return of the Black Company is the third installment of Tor’s reissue of The Annals of the Black Company, Glen Cook’s epic fantasy series. At this stage, the Black Company is at war with the Shadowlords, some of whom, … Continue reading →

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Glen Cook’s The Books of the South (Shadow Games, Dreams of Steel, The Silver Spike)

Posted on 27th December 2017 by Robert

Glen Cooks’ Annals of the Black Company ranks as one of the most significant (and most popular) fantasy series since Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. While I won’t go so far as to agree with Steven Erikson that Cook “singlehandedly … Continue reading →

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