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Epiphany Jones by Michael Grothaus

By MarinaSofia

12 June, 2016

Epiphany has a mutilated ear, hair as dark as a raven’s wing and hears voices from God, telling her what to do next. Jerry is incredibly lonely, addicted to celebrity porn sites and never quite sure what is real and what is hallucination. These two…

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The Second Life of Nick Mason by Steve Hamilton

By RoughJustice

15 May, 2016

Shall we start with the first life of Nick Mason? He was born in Canaryville, an Irish suburb of Chicago. He grew up in difficult circumstances, without a father, and gravitated to crime. From stealing cars he graduated to robbing dealers and then to armed…

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Jump Cut by Libby Fischer Hellmann

By Vicki Weisfeld

28 February, 2016

In Jump Cut, Chicago-based thriller author Libby Fischer Hellmann brings her outspoken heroine Ellie Foreman back for another exciting adventure after a 10-year hiatus. In the new book, video producer Foreman and her team have been hired to produce a series of puff pieces about…

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The Perfectionist by Simon Duke

By DavidPrestidge

2 January, 2016

Let’s start with a YouTube trailer, with some graphic images and moody music – The Perfectionist. Getting the idea? The story starts in a wintry Iowa. It is 1988, and a farmer makes a startling discovery – a man’s head, battered and disfigured, has been…

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Disintegration by Richard Thomas

By RoughJustice

19 May, 2015

Anyone familiar with Thomas’s neo-noir anthology The New Black will know the author is a fan of the dark stuff. So you won’t be surprised to learn that Disintegration, subtitled A Windy City Dark Mystery, is pitch black in tone. The un-named protagonist of Thomas’…

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Critical Mass by Sara Paretsky

By DeathBecomesHer

30 September, 2014

As all die-hard crime fiction fans know, some of the world’s best-selling authors aren’t happy unless they churn out book after book in a series featuring a recurring central character. After a while, some of those characters begin to feel like friends. Sadly, others get…

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Interview: Ari Marmell

By RoughJustice

7 June, 2014

Today we welcome the American author Ari Marmell to the site. The author of Hot Lead, Cold Iron, has a big reputation in horror and fantasy circles, and in his latest novel has blended Celtic mythology with crime fiction. His latest here, Mick Oberon, has…

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Hot Lead, Cold Iron by Ari Marmell

By RoughJustice

2 June, 2014

Mick Oberon belongs to the classic school of the pulp PI. He works out of a cramped office with two chairs and a battered filing cabinet. His cases don’t bring in much money, and it sure isn’t glamorous traipsing the mean streets of 1930s Chicago…

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Epiphany Jones by Michael Grothaus

The Second Life of Nick Mason by Steve Hamilton

Jump Cut by Libby Fischer Hellmann

The Perfectionist by Simon Duke

Disintegration by Richard Thomas

Critical Mass by Sara Paretsky

Interview: Ari Marmell

Hot Lead, Cold Iron by Ari Marmell

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