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Everything's bigger in Texas: 11 of the best lone star crime novels

8 June, 2018

Crime fiction expert Craig Sisterson brings us a selection of the very best crime fiction set in the Lone Star State… Texas. A single word that evokes a dizzying array of vivid images, and stereotypes. A place of romanticised cowboys during frontier days, and romanticised…

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Alive in Shape and Color – Edited by Lawrence Block

By crimefictionlover

1 January, 2018

That wily fox of Manhattan crime writing Lawrence Block has been weaving his Matthew Scudder stories for over 40 years now. In his own contribution to Alive in Shape and Color, which he edits, we find Scudder and his wife sitting on the piazza in…

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Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade

By RoughJustice

7 March, 2017

Written by Joe R Lansdale — In his afterword for this book, Joe R Lansdale describes Blood and Lemonade as a mosaic novel somewhat in the manner of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. It’s a collection of stories, that might move back or forward in time,…

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CIS: A classic revisited - Savage Season by Joe R Lansdale

By RoughJustice

1 September, 2015

Joe R Lansdale is a veteran writer of more than 25 years. He started out writing short stories for the independent press – mainly horror and thrillers. It’s something he still does, but has now achieved considerable mainstream success. His crime novel Cold in July was recently filmed with…

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Hot in December by Joe R Lansdale

By RoughJustice

7 December, 2013

Hot in December is the latest thriller from one of genre fiction’s most prolific and respected writers. Over a career spanning more than 30 years, Lansdale has written over 40 novels as well as 28 short story collections, usually in horror or crime fiction. He…

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Beyond Rue Morgue edited by Paul Cane and Charles Prepolec

By RoughJustice

28 July, 2013

Le Chevalier C Auguste Dupin, Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous creation, is considered by many to be fiction’s first detective character. Indeed, at the time of his first appearance in the 1841 novella The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the term detective had not been coined….

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On World Book Night 2013, we recommend...

By crimefictionlover

23 April, 2013

Tonight is World Book Night, a charity event promoting reading by giving out free books to underprivileged people in the UK, Ireland, America and Germany. We’re right behind that and encourage people to make donations to the cause at the WBN website. This year, WBN…

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Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT

By MyBookishWays

24 November, 2012

Edited by Thomas Pluck — Thomas Pluck writes hardboiled crime and has contributed to such anthologies as Shotgun Honey Presents: Both Barrels (Vol. 1), Off the Record – A Charity Anthology and Blood & Tacos #1, in addition to Spinetingler Magazine. He writes, in his…

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Everything's bigger in Texas: 11 of the best lone star crime novels

Alive in Shape and Color – Edited by Lawrence Block

Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade

CIS: A classic revisited - Savage Season by Joe R Lansdale

Hot in December by Joe R Lansdale

Beyond Rue Morgue edited by Paul Cane and Charles Prepolec

On World Book Night 2013, we recommend...

Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT

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