The Big Bundle
Max Allan Collins
Hank Wagner
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Hank Wagner

Opening in October 1953, Max Allan Collins’ 18th Nathan Heller adventure finds the middle-aged detective in Kansas City, consulting on a kidnapping, this time involving Bobby Greenlease, the 6-year-ol

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The Big Bundle
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Roots of Film Noir: Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s
Kevin Grant
Pat H. Broeske
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Pat H. Broeske

There are so many books on the subject that it’s sometimes difficult to discern one from the other, so kudos to author Kevin Grant, for breaking new ground with Roots of Film Noir: Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940

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Roots of Film Noir: Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s
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A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré
John le Carré
Dick Lochte
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Dick Lochte

Among the 200 or so letters by the late author of such acclaimed novels as The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, curated by his son (alas, now also late as of last May 30),

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A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré
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City Under One Roof
Iris Yamashita
Hank Wagner
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Hank Wagner

When body parts (primarily booted feet) start washing ashore along the Alaskan coastline, the authorities take notice, but decide that said parts must have come from the bodies of suicides or accident vi

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City Under One Roof
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Everybody Knows
Jordan Harper
Pat H. Broeske
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Pat H. Broeske

There’s a lot of SoCal mileage traversed in Jordan Harper’s noirish Everybody Knows, as its damaged protagonists investigate a death that leads to grim discoveries in the land of palm trees and dreamer

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Everybody Knows
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Amok
Barry Eisler
Hank Wagner
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Hank Wagner

In Amok, Barry Eisler travels back more than three decades to cast a spotlight on former Marine sniper Carl Williams, also known as “Dox” (as in “Unorthodox”). A supporting character in earlier

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Amok
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Jackal
Erin E. Adams
Margaret Agnew
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Margaret Agnew

Righteous Prey, John Sandford’s latest entry in his ever popular Prey series, teams up both of his main series characters, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers, for an explosive hunt for a powerful vi

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Jackal
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Follow Me Down
Ed Brubaker
Kevin Burton Smith
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Kevin Burton Smith

“I’m not really a private eye. I just do stuff sometimes, that other people can’t…” That’s Ethan Reckless, the hero of an outstanding series of hardcover graphic novels by American writer Ed

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Follow Me Down
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The Last Party
Clare Mackintosh
Benjamin Boulden
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Benjamin Boulden

Clare Mackintosh’s The Last Party is a mysterious and surprising psychological thriller wrapped in the trappings of a police procedural. Rhys Lloyd grew up in the village of Cwm Coed on the Welsh shore

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The Last Party
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The Quarry Girls
Jess Lourey
Sarah Prindle
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Sarah Prindle

Saint Cloud, Minnesota, 1977—teenager Heather Cash has lived in this close-knit town her entire life, going to school, playing the drums, and hanging out with her best friends, feisty Maureen Hansen an

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The Quarry Girls
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