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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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The Plaza

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Written by Guillermo Paxton — Seventy per cent of the heroin and 90 per cent of the cocaine in the USA comes in across the country’s border with Mexico. The war on drugs has been fought for over a decade with the American government concentrating…
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The Jaguar

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Written by T Jefferson Parker — Parker has written many stand-alone thrillers, usually set in California, but in The Jaguar we see the return of a character from earlier books, Charlie Hood. Hood is a good cop who has fought his way out of many…
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Taken

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Written by Robert Crais — The American-Mexican border has always been a fertile area for crime fiction. Mexican organised crime cartels battle each other, and various American government agencies, to control the area. At the same time they turn profitable businesses trafficking guns, drugs and…
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Interview: T Jefferson Parker

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Hailing from Southern California, T Jefferson Parker has a string of crime novels to his name including Laguna Heat, which was made into a film. If you’ve not come across his work, Sandstone Press is about to introduce it into the UK with his novel…
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The Dead Women of Juárez

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Written by Sam Hawken — It’s a tough sell setting a crime fiction book against a backdrop of real life horrors without coming across as sensationalist or trivial. But this is precisely what Sam Hawken attempts to do in his first book, The Dead Women…
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Triple Crossing

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Written by Sebastian Rotella — Triple Crossing is the début novel from Sebastian Rotella. A former investigative journalist, Rotella tackles some tough subjects in his first novel… Valentine Pescatore is a rookie agent working for Border Patrol where the US meets Mexico. While chasing a suspect down,…
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