Modern life seems to have a soundtrack for everything. Even crime.CRIME + MUSIC: The Sounds of Noir, collects twenty darkly intense, music-related noir stories by world-renowned mystery authors Brendan DuBois, Alison Gaylin, Craig Johnson, David Liss, Val McDermid, Gary Phillips, Peter Robinson and,...
Do you ever watch those TV cooking shows – the ‘reality’ ones? This book is like one of those reality TV shows on steroids. Hannah Wendt was an aspiring chef at one time. But many of the now-famous chefs had wronged her in various ways. Some had used her managing to up their game while diminishi...
Akashic Books has been issuing a series of books that thematically collect "noir" stories related to specific cities, e.g., Richmond Noir, Philadelphia Noir, etc., although I see there is a recent one entitled "Grand Central Noir;" perhaps they ran out of cities. The books are an excellent way to di...
Great crime caper. The affable main character reminded me of some of the other good "bad" guys from fiction, TV and movies.
Otto Penzler and a slew of writers give their thoughts on Robert B. Parker and his ground-breaking detective, Spenser.I grabbed this off of Netgalley. Thank you, Netgalley!Penzler and the gang (Ace AtkinsLawrence Block, Reed Farrel Coleman, Max Allan Collins, Matthew Clemens, Brendan DuBois, Loren ...
A good, but not great, collection of short stories of various G.I. Joe characters. I wished one or two would have gone into more depth, for instance, Zanya's story. I think there is more there that could have been told. Other stories were a bit more silly in terms of light humor, such as Roadblock's...
I started reading this over a year ago, on a flight home for Christmas, and the thing about short story books is they're easy to put down and come back to a long time later. Overall I thought the collection was kind of uneven but it opens and closes very strong, two of my three favourites are the op...
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