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The Get Off by Christa Faust

By RoughJustice

31 March, 2025

From New York originally, Christa Faust has worked as a model, a professional dominatrix and as an award-winning writer of original pulp and tie-in fiction. She possesses an unapologetic attitude and an encyclopaedic knowledge of film noir. Her novels featuring Angel Dare are modern noir…

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Down and Out in the River City by Wm Stage

By Vicki Weisfeld

27 March, 2025

This third crime thriller by Wm Stage is a refreshing change of pace in both setting and characters, with a strong feel of gritty reality. Contemporary society’s schisms and Americans’ careless assumptions and prejudices are on full display in this well-paced thriller, which puts St…

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Friends Helping Friends by Patrick Hoffman

By RoughJustice

24 March, 2025

Friends Helping Friends is the story of two young men and one slightly older woman in present day Denver, Colorado. At the beginning of the story the two men, Bunny Simpson and Jerry LeClair know each other, and are indeed friends. Neither of them know…

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Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

27 February, 2025

Brooklyn native William Boyle sets his latest novel in Gravesend, a changing part of the New York borough. It has the hallmarks of a classic, reminiscent of great American novels like Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River, and cements Boyle’s reputation as a master of noir. 28-year-old…

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Tommy the Bruce by James Yorkston

By RoughJustice

29 January, 2025

When Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature there were a few raised eyebrows. Whatever the merits of giving the prestigious award for his song lyrics, it’s probably safe to say he wouldn’t have won the award on the basis of his novels. There’s…

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House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias

By RoughJustice

8 October, 2024

Gabino Iglesias’s latest thriller leans quite heavily into horror, just like its Shirley Jackson Award-winning predecessor The Devil Takes You Home in 2022. This time, however, the story is noticeably less bleak, Iglesias replacing the hired killer protagonist of his previous novel with a group…

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Writing the Murder edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V Hirst

By Paul Burke

24 September, 2024

Ever wanted to write crime fiction or at least to understand how good crime fiction works? Perhaps explore the reasons why we love it so much? Writing the Murder: Essays in Crafting Crime Fiction aims to provide insight into the art of the murder mystery…

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The Devil Raises His Own by Scott Phillips

By RoughJustice

5 August, 2024

Kansas author Scott Phillips’s first novel, The Ice Harvest, was a critical and commercial hit in 2000. A movie adaptation, starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, was released in 2005. It’s also by some distance his most conventional crime novel, and since then Phillips…

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The Get Off by Christa Faust

Down and Out in the River City by Wm Stage

Friends Helping Friends by Patrick Hoffman

Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle

Tommy the Bruce by James Yorkston

House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias

Writing the Murder edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V Hirst

The Devil Raises His Own by Scott Phillips

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