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Little Tales of Misogyny

By Andre

28 January, 2015

Written by Patricia Highsmith — The title of Patricia Highsmith’s story collection, reissued this month by Virago, remains highly provocative even 40 years after it first appeared. As a reader, you wonder if these tales will highlight the cruelty of misogyny from a feminist perspective. Or…

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Death Sentences edited by Otto Penzler

By Andre

26 November, 2014

While crime fiction may be the biggest seller by genre, the dedicated crime bookshop has become an endangered species. In his introduction to this excellent anthology, Ian Rankin recalls his US book tours of the late 80s, a time when many American towns were home…

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The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro by Edogawa Rampo

By nagaisayonara

22 November, 2014

Translated by William Varteresian — Edogawa Rampo was the pen name of Taro Hirai, a Japanese author active from 1923 until his death in 1965. He is known as the father of Japanese detective fiction and his work – particularly his early writing – proved that…

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NTN: Maybe I Should Just Shoot You in the Face

By RoughJustice

21 November, 2014

Zelmer Pulp is an indie publisher using a core stable of new writers along with the occasional guest to produce themed genre anthologies. A lot of effort goes into producing great looking books with a diverse range of takes on any particular theme, but they…

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First look: The Rebus short stories

By crimefictionlover

12 September, 2014

Readers can’t get enough of Edinburgh’s irascible detective, and on 9 October you’ll be able to get you hands on a new Rebus book. Author Ian Rankin’s latest is not a novel though, instead it’s a collection of 27 short stories that run in chronological…

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Borderline

By crimefictionlover

30 June, 2014

The sexual violence that occurs here and there in Lawrence Block’s short stories may be borderline gratuitous, but if you’re looking for some classic pulp from the author’s back catalogue, you’d be borderline insane for not picking up this Hard Case Crime edition. Inside are…

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Face Off edited by David Baldacci

By DavidPrestidge

29 June, 2014

Remember the rock supergroups of the 1970s? Blind Faith; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; Derek and the Dominoes; Emerson, Lake and Palmer? Did the whole ever equal the sum of its parts? That’s an argument for another day, but what if a similar collaborative concept…

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Borderline by Lawrence Block

By nagaisayonara

5 June, 2014

If you’re not familiar with Lawrence Block’s work – and you should be, we’ve reviewed a whole stack of it here at Crime Fiction Lover – all I can say is be prepared. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. The four stories in this collection…

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Little Tales of Misogyny

Death Sentences edited by Otto Penzler

The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro by Edogawa Rampo

NTN: Maybe I Should Just Shoot You in the Face

First look: The Rebus short stories

Borderline

Face Off edited by David Baldacci

Borderline by Lawrence Block

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