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Crime Fiction

The Fighter by Craig Davidson

by John Holt

July 2nd, 2007

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…

Grand Theft by Timothy Watts

by George Steadman

May 27th, 2007

Teddy Clyde has got it all together. The dude’s got a brokerage business out on City Line Avenue. A closet full of expensive clothes – business suits, tennis and golf outfits – you name it.

The Right Madness – by James Crumley

by John Holt

April 24th, 2007

No one else tells the stories like Crumley, has his voice, his confidence or absolute fearlessness when it comes to putting down the wicked, horrible aspects of human existence, foibles of the worst sort only slightly tempered by our species’ better traits.

Present Value – By Sabin Willett

by Paul Blairon

April 24th, 2007

If Present Value was being pitched as a film one might describe it as Bonfire of the Vanities meets It’s A Wonderful Life. Sabin Willett has written a very entertaining novel that follows an upper-echelon New England couple and their two children from hubris to humiliation to redemption.

No Man’s Dog: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery – by Jon A. Jackson

by John Holt

April 22nd, 2007

In No Man’s Dog Jon Jackson weaves a curious juxtaposition between his long-time hero “Fang” Mulheisen, a soon-to-be former Detroit cop, and his nemesis of many years, Joe Service, an ex-freelance contractor to the Mob.

Down Here – by Andrew Vachss

by John Holt

April 11th, 2007

The popularity of this self-absorbed, naïve dreck should astound me. It doesn’t considering the current woeful state of New York publishing.

Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales – by by James Ellroy

by John Holt

April 11th, 2007

Anyone who reads “Balls to the Wall” will gain a true, bloody taste for a slice of contemporary life that is all American, nasty, perverted, occasionally heroic.

Timothy Watts Interview

by Paul Comstock

March 31st, 2007

“He’s actually a pretty good mechanic and somewhere in Philadelphia he’s running a pretty successful chop shop to this day.”

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