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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Crime Fiction</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/crime-fiction/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:12:32 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Yes Academy, We Do Need To Talk About Kevin</title><link>http://calitreview.com/23705</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/23705#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:05:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sociology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[BAFTA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ezra Miller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[family]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John C. Reilly]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lionel Shriver]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lynne Ramsay]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[school shooting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sociopath]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tilda Swinton]]></category> <category><![CDATA[violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[We Need To Talk About Kevin]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=23705</guid> <description><![CDATA[This film will upset you. This film will follow you home and haunt you. This film takes courage to face. You will not forget We Need To Talk About Kevin.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/23705/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Trailer Watch: Sherlock Holmes 2, The Woman In Black, Chronicle</title><link>http://calitreview.com/21026</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/21026#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:07:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chronicle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Daniel Radcliffe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guy Ritchie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hammer Film Productions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hammer films]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hammer horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Max Landis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies adventure]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Susan Hill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Woman In Black]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=21026</guid> <description><![CDATA[This week is rife with compelling but problematic new trailers. Compelling but problematic but informative. Without excessive judgment before the fact, here are a few early impressions.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/21026/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: The Art Of The Heist</title><link>http://calitreview.com/19191</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/19191#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:02:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Coen Brothers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crime capers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crime movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dog Day Afternoon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[heist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[heist films]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Mann]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies crime]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Raising Arizona]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sidney Lumet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Dark Knight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[thief]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=19191</guid> <description><![CDATA[This week, I join forces with Brett Davinger to chronicle some of the best heists, rip-offs, and holdups ever put on screen. So just sit quietly and keep your hands away from the phone, where we can see them. This won’t take long.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/19191/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: The Craigslist Murders by Brenda Cullerton</title><link>http://calitreview.com/18804</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/18804#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:32:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=18804</guid> <description><![CDATA[An interior “desecrator” who despises the bored super-rich housewives who can afford her services, she lives amongst people for whom money has dissolved away the real world, and takes her revenge by smashing their heads in with the poker which she carries wrapped in a yoga mat.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/18804/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: A Question Of Identity</title><link>http://calitreview.com/14225</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/14225#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:33:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[identity crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Liam Neeson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies suspense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=14225</guid> <description><![CDATA[Identity is a wonderful device for deception and suspense in storytelling. In some cases a whole plot hinges on whether or not someone is who they claim to be. The quest for identity, whether inwardly or outwardly direction, may lead to all manner of obsession, danger, and mischief.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/14225/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>&#8220;Let Me In!&#8221; Cries A Voice In The Night</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13562</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13562#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:08:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[best movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best of 2010]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chloë Grace Moretz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chloe Moretz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hammer films]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Let Me In]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Let The Right One In]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Matt Reeves]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vampire Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vampires]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13562</guid> <description><![CDATA[A certain writer for the California Literary Review has thoughtfully distilled a whole year of reviews, reactions, and reflections into two comprehensive and well-researched essays entitled "The 10 Best Movies of 2010" and "The 10 Worst Movies of 2010." Having been too shiftless to organize a retrospective list of my own, I take grave exception. One of the most entertaining movies of the year failed to rouse sufficient praise or sufficient scorn in his heart to make either list. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13562/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Brighton Rock Rises Again. Graham Greene Abides.</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13205</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13205#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brighton Rock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crime movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gangster movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graham Greene]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Helen Mirren]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Hurt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies suspense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Richard Attenborough]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rowan Joffé]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rown Joffe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sam Riley]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13205</guid> <description><![CDATA[Acclaimed screenwriter Rowan Joffé will try his hand at the directing game next year. For his debut, he has selected an auspiciously high-profile story. <em>Brighton Rock</em>, adapted from Graham Greene's 1938 novel, is a captivating crime thriller and a chilling exploration of the human capacity for love, betrayal and violence. If all goes right, this will be one beautiful and scary film.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13205/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Watchful Eye On&#8230; Sherlock Holmes</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13060</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13060#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:10:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Television]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arthur conan doyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benedict Cumberbatch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[detective]]></category> <category><![CDATA[detective stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guy Ritchie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hartswood Films]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jude Law]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martin Freeman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Downey Jr.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sir arthur conan doyle]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13060</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character still has potential in a new context. The only rule is not to stray from the unique faculties that make Sherlock such a distinctive and popular hero. If the story's focus ceases to be the detective's brilliant deductive logic, then the magic is lost and the character wasted. If, however, due attention and respect are paid to this detail, the rest is free and open to broader interpretation. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13060/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 2: North By Northwest Revisited</title><link>http://calitreview.com/11810</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/11810#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:00:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[alfred hitchcock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cary Grant]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies suspense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spy film]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=11810</guid> <description><![CDATA[I got myself a videotape of Alfred Hitchcock's <em>North By Northwest</em> at a young age, and proceeded to watch the ever-living hell out of it. I can't recall having seen what you might call a grown-up movie before that, and a lot of dramatic films that I love now might not have held my attention then. But North by Northwest really has got it all.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/11810/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: The Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer</title><link>http://calitreview.com/6902</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/6902#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:21:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medical thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Palmer]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=6902</guid> <description><![CDATA[Garrity is an archetype, an ill-understood and imperiled hero who after overcoming every obstacle, exits hand-in-hand with the alluring heroine. It is part of the fun for our heroes to be bigger, somehow, than life, and for villains to be so brilliantly inventive and evil as to rival Satan himself. This fictional world of good and bad provides the reader with a comforting temporary escape from the real world with all its pesky shades of gray. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/6902/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell</title><link>http://calitreview.com/5287</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/5287#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:58:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Patricia Cornwell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Scarpetta]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=5287</guid> <description><![CDATA[She’s developed an enjoyable way of beginning novels in the middle of a story, letting her audience watch the characters carry out conversations and actions which they don’t yet understand, but which will be unravelled as the book continues.  This must be an even harder trick than it looks, and <em>The Scarpetta Factor</em> is driven by the reader’s need to find out what the heroes know, as well as what the villains have done. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/5287/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>26</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rain Gods By James Lee Burke</title><link>http://calitreview.com/4177</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/4177#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:41:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[James Lee Burke]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4177</guid> <description><![CDATA[Burke’s life has provided ample experience to draw from for his mysteries that feature world-wise and often world-weary characters that have come to the points in their existences where doing the right thing, helping others and standing up to evil sometimes just seems like the path of least resistance.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4177/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb</title><link>http://calitreview.com/3344</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/3344#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:03:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mark Fitzgerald</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jonathan Rabb]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shadow and Light]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=3344</guid> <description><![CDATA[A man is found dead in a bathtub, brandy is poured and the whodunit game grows darker with every turn. Throw in a gritty 1927 Berlin, a major film studio and a chief inspector who never misses a beat and the pages practically turn themselves.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/3344/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Nobody Move by Denis Johnson</title><link>http://calitreview.com/3282</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/3282#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:46:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ryan Van Cleave</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Denis Johnson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nobody Move]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=3282</guid> <description><![CDATA[For people who liked Johnson’s recent National Book Award winner <em>Tree of Smoke</em> or his drug-laden 1992 short story collection <em>Jesus’ Son</em>, his latest, <em>Nobody Move</em>, is a real change of pace.  Originally published as a four-part serial in <em>Playboy</em> in 2008, this hardboiled noir tale plays with the conventions of thrillers and crime stories, utilizing nearly every stereotype and trick from the arsenal of Dashiell Hammett, Quentin Tarantino, Elmore Leonard, and Raymond Chandler.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/3282/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill</title><link>http://calitreview.com/3135</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/3135#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 13:38:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reginald Hill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Roar of the Butterflies]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=3135</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hill has written far fewer books about the black Luton lathe operator turned PI, but <em>The Roar of the Butterflies</em> displays the same qualities which make the Dalziel and Pascoe series so notable: a remarkable turn of phrase, a generous tone and persistent pushing at the boundaries of what crime fiction can encompass.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/3135/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Nuclear Jellyfish by Tim Dorsey</title><link>http://calitreview.com/3015</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/3015#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nuclear Jellyfish]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tim Dorsey]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=3015</guid> <description><![CDATA[To take on one of Dorsey’s books is to suspend notions of political correctness (thankfully) and the sadly homogeneous behavior associated with society’s coercing decency. The novels are an energized romp through the craziness of modern Florida with humorously illuminating excursions into the Sunshine State’s past, and oh if only high school history texts had been as fun to read.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/3015/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell</title><link>http://calitreview.com/2729</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/2729#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:12:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Patricia Cornwell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Scarpetta]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=2729</guid> <description><![CDATA[There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for example - and a sense of the book probing its own genre at times. A particularly striking passage involves faked emails, supposedly sent by Scarpetta, which purport to “dish the dirt” on autopsies at which the medical examiners mock the corpses, take souvenirs and generally act callously.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/2729/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gas City by Loren Estleman</title><link>http://calitreview.com/712</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/712#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:48:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Loren Estleman]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=712</guid> <description><![CDATA[The characters and the settings in <em>Gas City</em> are rife with intriguing promise that never seems delivered. The story seems one- two-dimensional, never fully realized. That’s why I was unable to remember much of the book. There are a number of good scenes, but with so many quality novels out and about, including several by Estleman himself, these brief flashes of excellence are not sufficient to recommend the book.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/712/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Right Side of the Tracks</title><link>http://calitreview.com/682</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/682#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 16:15:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=682</guid> <description><![CDATA[Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety about them. The ability to travel across Britain at such speeds was exciting, but also potentially unsettling for a social system which still, in many ways, preferred that people remained “in their place”. When Sir Henry Baskerville is being followed by an unknown bearded man in London, he suspects it may be the butler from Baskerville Hall, and sends a telegram to check whether or not “Barrymore is at his post in Devonshire.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/682/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Double Cross By James Patterson</title><link>http://calitreview.com/463</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/463#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:50:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[James Patterson]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/topics/crime-fiction/463/</guid> <description><![CDATA[I love John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series but always thought that his love scenes were clunkers to the point of being embarrassing. Compared to Patterson’s portrayals, MacDonald comes off like Arthur Miller.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/463/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lots in a Name</title><link>http://calitreview.com/305</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/305#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:07:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2008/01/21/lots-in-a-name/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero, and “Pierrot”, the Italian clown - an interesting combination of heroism and buffoonery. The name reflects Christie’s practice of presenting Poirot alternately as a figure of fun and a stern emissary of justice. Dorothy L. Sayers balances her detective hero in a similar way – Peter Wimsey’s name has all the connotations of his silly-ass-about-town persona, but he is shadowed by his middle name – “Death.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/305/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Tin Roof Blowdown By James Lee Burke</title><link>http://calitreview.com/289</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/289#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:44:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[James Lee Burke]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/12/03/the-tin-roof-blowdown-by-james-lee-burke/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Because he’s a damn good writer James Lee Burke knows how to keep a plot going from start to finish with no loose ends or out-of-the-blue surprises that amateurishly attempt to explain and finish off a narrative.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/289/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>City of Fire By Robert Ellis</title><link>http://calitreview.com/286</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/286#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:51:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Ellis]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/11/19/city-of-fire-by-robert-ellis/</guid> <description><![CDATA[There are red herrings aplenty, but once finished reading the novel I’m left with a sense of annoyance at these diversions, so often delightful necessities in other mysteries, but close to being filler in this one.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/286/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gentlemen and Players</title><link>http://calitreview.com/283</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/283#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:34:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/11/13/gentlemen-and-players/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Yet it is the amateur, the eccentric and the outsider who plays the hero in the whodunnit. Lord Peter, with his silly-ass-about-town front, Holmes, with his Goethe and cocaine bottle and Poirot with his obsessive neatness and ostentatiously Gallic egotism, all seem pretty unlikely champions of order and public safety.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/283/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Trashed by Alison Gaylin</title><link>http://calitreview.com/281</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/281#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:08:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alison Gaylin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hollywood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tabloids]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/11/08/trashed-by-alison-gaylin/</guid> <description><![CDATA[These driven individuals scour celebrity garbage cans, pose as anyone but themselves, lie as though the truth was a concept to be scorned and in general have all of the journalistic ethics commonly associated with FOX News. Getting the goods on the rich and famous is all that matters in this weird league.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/281/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg</title><link>http://calitreview.com/276</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/276#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:13:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Denmark]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Copenhagen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peter Høeg]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Scandinavia]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/10/29/the-quiet-girl-by-peter-h%c3%b8eg/</guid> <description><![CDATA[A thriller is often a race, but without the understanding of exactly why this girl is so great a prize, it makes it harder to follow the runner.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/276/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>22</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin</title><link>http://calitreview.com/275</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/275#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:25:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Vikram Johri</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jason Goodwin]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/10/25/the-snake-stone-by-jason-goodwin/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Goodwin now returns with another mystery, a tale as exotic as the first one, delicious in its evocation of the last days of the Ottoman dynasty. Here, however, the territory is dangerously personal.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/275/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger</title><link>http://calitreview.com/269</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/269#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:10:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category> <category><![CDATA[William Kent Krueger]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/10/11/thunder-bay-by-william-kent-krueger/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The novel is set in the lake country of northern Minnesota and the wilds of bordering Ontario. Former sheriff Cork O’Connor has decided to take life easy with his wife and teenage daughter. He’ll fill in the slack times with a little private investigator action or at least that’s what he thinks. The short-lived halcyon period is broken when Objibwe medicine man Henry Meloux (as in “mellow”) asks Cork to find his son that he fathered more than a half-century ago in the Canadian boreal forest wild lands.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/269/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Noogie&#8217;s Time To Shine by Jim Knipfel</title><link>http://calitreview.com/262</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/262#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:11:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Garan Holcombe</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/10/01/noogies-time-to-shine-by-jim-knipfel/</guid> <description><![CDATA[One day, a young boy scares Noogie when he is the middle of restocking a machine in Fast Eddie’s Drug Hut by shouting ‘bang’. Noogie drops four thousand dollars in twenties all over the floor, screams at the kid and then gathers the notes up. It is only when he has loaded them all into the ATM that he finds a stray twenty under his shoe. It is then that the idea for the ‘perfect slow-motion heist’ occurs to him.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/262/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Fighter by Craig Davidson</title><link>http://calitreview.com/233</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/233#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:28:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[boxing]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/07/02/the-fighter-by-craig-davidson/</guid> <description><![CDATA[James Ellroy, Cormac McCarthy and William T. Vollmann have some new company hanging out on their dark, rough, violent block. He’s Craig Davidson and here’s how he tells what he feels and sees...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/233/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
