Scott Phillips’ THE ADJUSTMENT
After dabbling with a futuristic story in THE RUT, Scott Phillips returns to noirish territory with a fantastically unseemly novel set in Wichita just after World War Two. Wayne Ogden, who we met in...
View ArticleBOOK BITES: GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn
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View ArticleLavie Tidhar’s OSAMA
The way a story is told greatly affects a reader’s perception. The world we live in shapes our stories to fit within historical and societal contexts. But what if you could retell a story and change...
View ArticleKen Bruen’s MERRICK
I‘ve always thought Ken Bruen was made for eBooks. His prose and structure is very, well not poetic but poem like, and his novels are often short, sharp and furious. I got an advance of his latest...
View ArticleKen Bruen’s HEADSTONE
I can’t believe I thought I was getting tired of Jack Taylor novels. The last two books, THE DEVIL and this book, have both been absolute crackers. I’d go far as to say that I think this new book is...
View ArticleGillian Flynn’s GONE GIRL
I don’t know where to start with this book other than WOW! I’d heard and read a lot of buzz about this book but the buzz hadn’t hooked me. Mainly because the buzz wasn’t very descriptive. People I...
View ArticleAriel S. Winter’s THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH
As a lover of crime fiction I was literally in awe of this book. It is a crime lover’s dream come true. It is an epic story told in three novels, each in the style of the masters of noir fiction:...
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