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Jim Nesbitt
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Bigger Than Life
Take a look, chirren. Soon. Very soon.
Big news, chirren. HUUUUUUUGE. Just slapped a -30- on the final chapter of the next Ed Earl Burch hard-boiled Texas crime thriller — THE DEAD CERTAIN DOUBT.
That’s old-school, ink-stained-wretch talk for The End. Finito. Done.
Gonna let it marinate a bit overnight before cranking up the chainsaw for the miserable chore of editing, rewriti
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RADIOACTIVE THRILLER Scott Powers' The Space Coast Tatler is a marvelous race-against-the-clock thriller with a radioactive twist and a masterful portrayal of Florida sleaze, squalor, casual bloodshed and eternally transient folkways. The author is a j ...more |
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LONG GONE With his terrific new novel, THE VANISHERS, ace mystery writer R.G. Belsky has teleported his considerable mastery of spinning compelling and fast-paced stories with spine-bending plot twists to an entirely different genre, the paranormal th ...more |
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Carmen Amato strikes again with another morally complex, bloody and insightful mystery that perches Acapulco's first female homicide detective, Emilia Cruz, on a high wire with lots of toothy villains circling below, waiting for her fall. That makes t ...more |
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“I've always thought hard-boiled detective novels an American art form. At their best, they're more than who-dun-its or thrillers, they're vehicles for a writer's observations about culture, politics, philosophy, music, history and a time or a place. Or life, it’s ownself. When you read James Ellroy, Dashiell Hammett or James Lee Burke, their stories are always about far more than good guys chasing bad guys. That’s the kind of book I wanted to write. Still do.”
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“When you write, you start with what you know and build from there. I knew a little something about the border, Texas and Mexico from my journalism days. Knew some cops and redneck outlaws, too. And I knew I wanted to write a noirish detective novel. So I started with that and went from there. Out popped Ed Earl Burch, Carla Sue Cantrell and THE LAST SECOND CHANCE: An Ed Earl Burch Novel.”
― The Last Second Chance: An Ed Earl Burch Novel
― The Last Second Chance: An Ed Earl Burch Novel
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“I've always thought hard-boiled detective novels an American art form. At their best, they're more than who-dun-its or thrillers, they're vehicles for a writer's observations about culture, politics, philosophy, music, history and a time or a place. Or life, it’s ownself. When you read James Ellroy, Dashiell Hammett or James Lee Burke, their stories are always about far more than good guys chasing bad guys. That’s the kind of book I wanted to write. Still do.”
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“When you write, you start with what you know and build from there. I knew a little something about the border, Texas and Mexico from my journalism days. Knew some cops and redneck outlaws, too. And I knew I wanted to write a noirish detective novel. So I started with that and went from there. Out popped Ed Earl Burch, Carla Sue Cantrell and THE LAST SECOND CHANCE: An Ed Earl Burch Novel.”
― The Last Second Chance: An Ed Earl Burch Novel
― The Last Second Chance: An Ed Earl Burch Novel
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