Monday, March 09, 2026

New Taipei Night Market Crime Novel from Ed Lin, THE DEAD CAN'T MAKE A LIVING

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  If you are an American or a European, you may feel like "immigrants" is a fighting word where you live -- the kind of issue that...
Wednesday, March 04, 2026

When the Author Builds Herself a World: Nicola Griffith, SHE IS HERE

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Last July I mentioned Nicola Griffith, whose lush noir crime fiction can be a slow-read delight. At that point, her Aud Torvingen trilogy, f...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Two Memorable Crime Novels for Winter Reading: Con Lehane's THE RED SCARE and Cara Black's HUGUETTE (December Releases)

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New York City in 1950 held neighborhoods far more separate than they are today: From Hell's Kitchen, where Mick Mulligan is starting his...
Sunday, November 02, 2025

Three Kinds of Crime Fiction/Mystery, 3 Settings: Hamburg, Fiji, Maine

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Catching up a bit ... I picked up HAMBURG NOIR over the summer, as it had an August release date. Part of the top-notch and provocative Akas...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Brief Mention: THE NAMING OF THE BIRDS by Paraic O'Donnell

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I found Paraic O'Donnell's two earlier books, The Maker of Swans and The House on Vesper Sands , so compelling that I've shelve...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Scottish Noir, THE DIARY OF LIES by Philip Miller (3rd Shona Sandison Book)

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Beach reading is wrapping up -- it's time for substantial and satisfying crime fiction to go with the hints of autumn rolling in. And th...
Saturday, August 09, 2025

New Billy Boyle World War II Mystery, A BITTER WIND, by James Benn

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About six weeks from now, the latest World War II mystery featuring Captain Billy Boyle comes out. That seems like a long time in terms of w...