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Slip & Fall

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Written by Nick Santora – Creative writing courses consistently tell their charges to write what you know. Nick Santora used to be a lawyer. Hopefully he’s never been a Mafioso, but after a career change he became a screenwriter on shows like The Sopranos and…
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Lady, Go Die! A Mike Hammer Novel

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Written by Max Allan Collins and Mickey Spillane — I, the Jury, the first Mike Hammer novel, was published in hardcover in 1947. Initially sales were modest but the paperback edition became an incredible success. By that time, the private eye genre was well established…
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Interview: Max Allan Collins

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As we reported on Crime Fiction Lover, Max Allan Collins is the literary executor of Mickey Spillane and has completed the lost second Mike Hammer novel, Lady, Go Die! for publication. The book was originally written by Spillane in the late 1940s after I, the…
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Winter at Death's Hotel

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Written by Kenneth Cameron — Winter at Death’s Hotel is a crime novel I saw reviewed in a national Sunday paper. I bought it expecting a cosy and warm few hours’ journey through the literary conventions of a pastiche Victorian detective story. I could not…
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Interview: David Jackson

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David Jackson is the author of Pariah, his debut novel which came out last year. His new book The Helper has just come out. Both are crime thrillers with an edge, delivered with a panache and style akin to Lee Child or Simon Kernick. A…
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Bloodman

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Written by Robert Pobi — Canto XII of Dante’s Inferno takes place in the First Ring of the Seventh Circle of Hell where sinners who used violence against others suffer for all eternity in a boiling river of blood. Bloodman is Montreal writer Robert Pobi’s…
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