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
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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.
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?
Book review: The Silent Dead by Tetsuya Honda
A modern Japanese murder mystery with a jaded worldview in need of urgent investigation.
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