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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.
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
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.
Requiem for the Detective Novel: The case for Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s 1958 masterpiece The Pledge
What really happens to a policeman who can’t solve his most important case? What becomes of a pillar of society whose foundations are crumbling?
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