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First look: Missing by Sam Hawken

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Oh, this is nice. Block foil bullets, rosary beads and handguns. A creepy dia de muertos skull configuration. Silhouettes, hearts and spades, illustrative flourishes and let’s not forget that tattoo-style Blackletter typeface for the book’s title. Once again Serpent’s Tail has done Sam Hawken proud…
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Book Club

Borderline

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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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KindlePrintReviews

Epic Justice

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Written by Wayne Epperson — The intrepid, no-nonsense Atlanta bounty hunter Frank Knott rides again. To say that the ex-marine sees things in black and white is to understate Knott’s view of the world. He probably sees black and white as far too indeterminate and…
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Features

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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PrintReviews

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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KindlePrintReviews

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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PrintReviews

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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