Book Club

Rough Riders

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With a five-star review on this site, and chosen by RoughJustice as his favourite crime book of 2012, Rough Riders by Charlie Stella comes highly recommended. “Stella moves his chronicling of New York’s wise guys to the snowy terrain of North Dakota in a tale…
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NTN: Junkie

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Written by Robert French — Junkie is a crime thriller that roars and booms its way up, down, under and over the Western Canadian city of Vancouver. Although it was called the most livable city in the world by the Economist last year, everybody in…
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NTN: Sam Hawken interviewed

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We’ve reviewed several borderland noir books here on Crime Fiction Lover, and one of the most striking was Sam Hawken’s debut novel, The Dead Women of Juárez. It was nominated for a dagger last year, and the other day his second book Tequila Sunset was…
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NTN: Tequila Sunset

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Written by Sam Hawken — First off, let’s just point out that Sam Hawken’s second novel has a fantastic cover. This folk art-style treatment of a Dia de los Muertos skull is striking, not least of all because of its impressive gold foil teeth (which…
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Rough Riders

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Written by Charlie Stella — This New York writer has been on my radar for some time. Never quite breaking out, he has however amassed a solid reputation as a writer of hardboiled, streetwise crime fiction over the course of several novels. When Bill Crider…
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The Abbey

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Written by Chris Culver — When I heard that this self-published debut ebook became an Amazon bestseller and then made the New York Times bestseller list too, I have to admit I was curious to read it. As with indie film-makers, I’ve always believed in…
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Capture

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Written by Roger Smith — When we interviewed Roger Smith a couple of weeks ago, he told us that Capture is his darkest book yet. Can’t argue with that. This novel probes deeply into characters so broken, abused and thoroughly desperate that the voids of…
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