Lies fill rooms like smoke, choking and confusing the inhabitants while the truth slips out unnoticed, its remnants pushed into tall corners by the spreading fumes until nothing is distinguishable from the dark.
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Category: Reviews
An arresting new crime series sounds off with Emma Viskic’s novel Resurrection Bay
If you’re looking for one of the most promising debuts in Australian crime fiction take a trip to Resurrection Bay
All hail the new King of New York: Don Winslow’s The Force is the crime novel of the year
Winslow is out there prowling the streets of New York poking his nose in, inhaling the stench, digesting the smoke and oxygen in his lungs and breathing them out as junkie poetry.
Probing Friedrich Durrenmatt’s nightmare detective novel Suspicion
Durrenmatt often turns the detective genre on its head. Sometimes the crimes just don’t get solved.
The hardboiled Bond screenplay that never was… Donald E Westlake’s lost novel Forever and a Death lives another day
Reading Forever and a Death is satisfying on dual levels: it’s got thunder of the man behind the Parker novels honing his craft and also the breeze of a writer who is typing on a big budget for the fun of it
A fractured woman finds strength via sin in Dennis Lehane’s riveting Since We Fell
With Since We Fell, Lehane is really going the extra mile, swapping his labyrinthine ensembles for a probing look at one woman’s determination to combat increasingly crippling emotions
