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Sam Reaves
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Cold Black Earth
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2015
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Running in the Dark
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2018
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Homicide 69
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2006
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A Long Cold Fall (Cooper MacLeish, #1)
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1994
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Mean Town Blues: A Novel of Crime
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1991
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Fear Will Do It
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Dooley's Back: A Novel of Crime (Otto Penzler Books)
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Bury it Deep
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1993
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Get What's Coming
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1995
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Stalking Horse (Cooper MacLeish Book 5)
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Stalking Horse
Sometimes it takes a while…
Thirty years ago I was a young writer just trying to learn the business. (Now, of course, I’m an old writer still trying to learn the business.) In 1994 Putnam had published my first four novels, a crime series featuring a Chicago taxi driver named Cooper MacLeish. The first book, A Long Cold Fall, was never intended to be a series; I thought I was writing a stand-alone. Read more of this blog post »
Thirty years ago I was a young writer just trying to learn the business. (Now, of course, I’m an old writer still trying to learn the business.) In 1994 Putnam had published my first four novels, a crime series featuring a Chicago taxi driver named Cooper MacLeish. The first book, A Long Cold Fall, was never intended to be a series; I thought I was writing a stand-alone. Read more of this blog post »
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| The Bastards of Pizzofalcone series is a sort of a cross between the 87th Precinct and Slow Horses, set in Naples and featuring a team of disgraced cops relegated to a backwater police district and expected to stay out of trouble. Against all expecta ...more | |
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| Early Margery Allingham (1930), when her hero Albert Campion was still a bit silly, an upper-class amateur sleuth disguising his remarkable powers with upper-class twit frivolity. The later books, which take a more serious tone as Campion matures, ar ...more | |
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This is a sharp, smart, noirish novel set in contemporary London, with a whiff of Kingsley Amis-style social satire and elements of mystery, intrigue and black humor. Right up to the end I was really enjoying it. More on that denouement below. It's to ...more |
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| This is a history of the long-running effort by the Soviet Union and its successor state Russia to plant long-term sleeper agents ("illegals" in intelligence jargon) in the West. The project was ambitious and improbable: to train agents to adopt and ...more | |
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Nick Tosches was best known for his non-fiction, primarily music criticism and biographies. This is a crime novel set in New York and New Jersey in the eighties, focusing on the numbers racket. Louie is a youngish guy from a mobbed-up family in Jersey ...more |
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| The 1992 Olympics put Barcelona on the map, starting its transformation from merely Spain's second city to hipster mecca and major tourist destination. Most of the tourists skim the surface without learning much about the city's complex social histor ...more | |
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| Len Deighton was prolific and accomplished, with wide-ranging interests. Best known for his Cold War spy novels, he also wrote a number of historical novels set during World War Two. City of Gold belongs to what is almost a sub-genre of "Cairo at War ...more | |
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| Lawrence Durrell is best known for his Alexandria Quartet, four linked novels with an exotic setting, full of literary flourishes, eloquent language and eroticism. This is something different, a fairly straightforward adventure tale in the tradition ...more | |
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| Bob Woodward made his reputation digging up Watergate dirt along with Carl Bernstein and then went on to write more than a dozen other muckraking best sellers on a variety of political and cultural issues and personalities. This is his account of the ...more | |
“They traded one of those looks only two people who have grown up together can trade, long and candid, and Rachel found herself hurting for him.”
― Cold Black Earth
― Cold Black Earth
“everybody was afraid and that the trick was to learn to function with fear.”
― Cold Black Earth
― Cold Black Earth
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Hi Sam. Thanks for friending this mystery & paranormal author. I hope you'll consider adding my books to your to-read list. Great to connect here. I'm looking forward to reading your reviews.Kris
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Magical Alienation: A Samantha Brennan and Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mystery
Hi Sam,Thanks for sending a friend request to this fellow crime writer on Goodreads!
