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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
The Judge and His Hangman: When the reader becomes a pawn in a crime writer’s wicked game
The Judge and His Hangman could be devoured in a single sitting, its haunting contents continuing to unspool for days after the backcover folds over.
A great Japanese novella blossoms: Exploring Spring Garden
Tomoka Shibasaki’s Spring Garden is quietly a great many things, but primarily it appears to be a meditation of seasonality. Buildings are constructed in the spring, flourish in the summer, recede in the autumn and are knocked down in the winter to be rebuilt in the spring again. Their inhabitants follow a similar cycle. They…
Kidnappings and political trappings: Rediscovering Gregory Mcdonald’s Snatch via Hard Case Crime
Wonderfully adept at weaving in new characters, Mcdonald takes a simple melody and orchestrates it into a cacophony of noise. It demands your attention.
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