Tag Archives: Crime
In the Mail: A Hard Death
Though Hayes flirts with a few genre clichés, Jenner emerges as a sufficiently flawed yet empathetic hero. Continue reading
Posted in In The Mail
Tagged Crime, Edward Jenner, Fiction, Forensic pathology, Jonathan Hayes
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T.J. English & The Savage City on The Daily Show
I am late in posting this but thought it still worth doing so. The Savage City by T.J. English is one of a great many serious and engaging books that I am unlikely to get a chance to read but wanted to make you aware of it. Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged Crime, Daily Show, Jon Stewart, non-fiction, T. J. English
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In the Mail: Infamous
Infamous by Ace Atkins Publishers Weekly Set in 1933, Atkins’s winning fourth history-based novel focuses on two figures who, as the author explains in an introduction, have been undeservedly lost in the shuffle of Depression-era gangsters: George Kelly, who ironically … Continue reading
LA Times on Kind of Blue
Kind of Blue by Miles Corwin is one of many many books that pile up in the TBR pile but don’t get read because of time constraints, my reading choice idiosyncrasies, etc. Carmela Ciuraru’s review in the LA Times, however, … Continue reading
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Tagged Crime, Fiction, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Miles Corwin, Miles Davis
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In the Mail: Savages
Savages by Don Winslow Publishers Weekly Spare, clipped expository prose and hip, spot-on dialogue propel this visceral crime novel from Winslow (The Dawn Patrol). The future is looking good for Laguna Beach, Calif., marijuana growers Ben and Chon, until they … Continue reading
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Tagged Crime, Don Winslow, Fiction, Illegal drug trade, thrillers
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