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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021

By Vicki Weisfeld

19 October, 2021

Edited by Steph Cha and Alafair Burke — Short mystery/crime fiction lovers in the United States have been more than a little curious to see what changes might be made in this annual series since publisher HarperCollins yanked the project from long-time series editor Otto…

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Normandy Gold

By RoughJustice

2 May, 2018

Written by Alison Gaylin and Megan Abbott, drawn by Steve Scott — If the #metoo movement and the unsavoury antics of America’s pussy-grabbing president have once again brought the patriarchal abuse of power into the spotlight, then Abbott and Gaylin’s graphic novel set in the…

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Interview: Alison Gaylin and Megan Abbott talk about Normandy Gold

By crimefictionlover

17 April, 2018

Alison Gaylin writes tense crime thrillers. Megan Abbott is the queen of contemporary American noir. If you love crime fiction as much as we do, and enjoy a good graphic novel too, then you couldn’t have dreamed it much better. Last year, both authors teamed…

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If I Die Tonight

By DeathBecomesHer

19 August, 2017

Written by AL Gaylin — Wade Reed is 17, an introverted boy, talented at art, who dresses in black and has few friends. Liam Miller is in Wade’s class, but they’re polar opposites – Liam is handsome and popular. Then, suddenly, Liam is dead, the…

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First look: Normandy Gold by Megan Abbott and Alison Gaylin

By crimefictionlover

5 April, 2017

Feast your eyes on these glorious covers for the latest comic from the Hard Case Crime and Titan Comics stable – Normandy Gold. Released 14 June, the series is set in the 1970s and is the result of a writing collaboration between US noir queen…

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What Remains of Me

By Vicki Weisfeld

19 December, 2016

Written by Alison Gaylin, narrated by Ann Marie Lee – If, as the Bible says, the sins of the fathers will be visited on their children, this story is the proof of it. It’s set in two time periods, 1980 and 2010, among a small…

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DeathBecomesHer: Top five books of 2014

By DeathBecomesHer

29 December, 2014

Top five books of the year, said the boss – cue panic from this writer. It might be the third time I’ve completed the exercise but the job certainly doesn’t get any easier. Experience has taught me to keep a running list as the year moves along…

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And She Was by Alison Gaylin

By DeathBecomesHer

2 December, 2014

How’s your memory? Do you religiously compile a list of groceries before your monthly shop only to leave it on the kitchen table? Do you recall, word for word, the lyrics to a song that made number 15 in the charts in 1975, but struggle…

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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021

Normandy Gold

Interview: Alison Gaylin and Megan Abbott talk about Normandy Gold

If I Die Tonight

First look: Normandy Gold by Megan Abbott and Alison Gaylin

What Remains of Me

DeathBecomesHer: Top five books of 2014

And She Was by Alison Gaylin

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