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With strikingly designed covers, new editions of five novels by Chester Himes have appeared the shelves. Featuring Coffin Ed and Gravedigger Jones, the reprinting of these hardboiled detective stories is good news – Himes was an American crime fiction genius who is still underappreciated. When it comes to hardboiled crime fiction, critics regard Chandler and
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Stark House Press does a grand job bringing classic American pulp novels to a new audience and occasionally publishes contemporary tales that catch the spirit of those mid-20th century originals. Timothy J Lockhart’s A Certain Man’s Daughter, the title drawn from a poem, is in that vein. It’s pacy, lean and peppered with cynicism but
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No, no, we’re not talking about independence. This isn’t a political column. It’s Scots author Val McDermid’s new graphic novel, Resistance, which leads off our new books roundup this week. Her compatriot Denise Mina has previously adapted Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to the format, and now McDermid has her own original
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Calling all diverse women writers! LitUp—a writer’s fellowship from Reese’s Book Club—is accepting fee-free applications from unpublished, underrepresented women writers. Reese’s Book Club, along with We Need Diverse Books, have created this fellowship to aid diverse emerging writers so “more diverse stories are seen, heard, and read by all.” LitUp has partnered with Hello Sunshine
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If you’re going away to college, don’t forget to pack this cookbook filled with delicious recipes for all the foods you love. “College Cooking 101: Fast Food Without a Kitchen” contains over 80 recipes for the grab-n-go meals that fuel today’s student. This book was born out of necessity when the author’s daughter did not
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Translated by Alexandra Fleming — In 1959, the whole population of a mining village in Norrland, Sweden, disappeared. Only two people were left behind – the body of a woman stoned to death in the village square and a baby in the school classroom. No-one has been to Silvertjärn since and no explanation was ever
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Posted by BookPage on October 04, 2019 The movie version of the popular TV drama “Downton Abbey” is out in theaters. If you can’t get enough upstairs/downstairs drama, read on for books that can help.   If you enjoy . . . the exploration of the effects of WWI on society then you should read . .
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Long Bright River by Liz Moore for $1.99 Sunburn by Laura Lippman for $1.99 Jade City by Fonda Lee for $4.99 The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas for $1.99 Monster She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Jade City by Fonda Lee for $4.99 The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas for $1.99 Monster She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson for $2.99 A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos for $1.99 Welcome to Night Vale
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas for $1.99 Monster She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson for $2.99 A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos for $1.99 Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink for $1.99 Almost American
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink for $1.99 Almost American Girl by Robin Ha for $1.99 Three Women by Lisa Taddeo for $1.99 An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten for $1.99 Wild Seed by Octavia
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler for $1.99 The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes by Leonard Goldberg for $2.99 The Age of Witches by Louisa Morgan for $2.99 The World According to Fannie Davis by Bridgett M. Davis for $3.99 Horrorstor by
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From an ex-cop taking revenge on his wife’s killer in Tennessee to a teenage Jane Austen poking around a manor house mystery, our On the Radar column this week has everything a crime fiction lover needs. Our lead book is Jo Spain’s new thriller, which is a major release in the market, but we’ll also
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In November, we posted an article about Alan Dean Foster fighting Disney for owed royalties from Alien and Star Wars tie-in books he wrote. Apparently, after Disney acquired the copyright licenses for these books, they continued to publish them–but not pay royalties. The SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) brought the discussion public
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Translated by Howard Curtis — Guido Guerrieri is a lawyer of middle years who practices in Bari, on Italy’s Adriatic coast. In this, Gianrico Carofiglio’s sixth legal thriller featuring Guerrieri, a case with uncomfortable links to the protagonist’s past finds its way to his door. A woman named Lorenza Delle Foglie asks him to handle
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The name Hansjörg Schneider may not mean much to you, but in the German-speaking world he is an important literary figure. Based in Basel, Switzerland, Schneider is a famous playwright and philosopher who, in 1993, began a series of crime novels about a Basel detective called Kommissär Peter Hunkeler. Books from the series have won
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Any ‘best of’ list of creepiest love songs worth its salt is sure to include Every Breath You Take, the stalkerfest made famous by The Police back in 1983, when it reached number one in six countries including the US and the UK. With lines like “I’ll be watching you” and “Oh, can’t you see,
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One of the attractions of Nordic noir is the allusion to beauty and innocence that the pristine snowscapes conjure just before the tragic human drama bites. The contrast plays on the mind as the extreme cold, sense of isolation and dislocation and the evil people do sully that clean, pure first impression. The unease this
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay for $1.99 My Invented Country by Isabel Allende for $2.99 Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine for $2.99 Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan for $1.99 The Shadows Between
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We like fresh blood here on Crime Fiction Lover. So let’s introduce you to a new author and her debut in our weekly new books column. Before the Ruins by Victoria Gosling is an important release for Serpent’s Tail, and at its heart is a group of youngsters who have secrets they’d rather forget. Lots
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