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Later by Stephen King

By RoughJustice

7 April, 2021

Once every few years, Stephen King publishes a paperback original through Hard Case Crime, such as Joyland and The Colorado Kid. He has written a number of thrillers recently as well, including the Mr Mercedes series. King, being King, these thrillers are at least horror…

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Like Flies from Afar by K Ferrari

By RoughJustice

18 March, 2021

Translated by Adrian Nathan West — It’s difficult to know where to begin when discussing this short novel from Argentina. Is it a sharp piece of pulp exploitation? It is certainly full of sex, drugs and violence, and the quotes at the beginning from David…

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First look: Ms Tree – The Cold Dish

By crimefictionlover

16 March, 2021

Correction – this isn’t so much a first look as a first look at a very retro reprint that Titan Comics is pulling off with Hard Case Crime. Ms Tree is a crime comic harking back to 1984, written by Max Allan Collins and with…

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Skim Deep by Max Allan Collins

By RoughJustice

19 November, 2020

Nolan, no first name, is a middle-aged man and former professional thief. These days – it’s 1986 in the story – he’s married and retired from armed robbery. He remains on good terms with the Outfit, the mafia-like criminal mob he occasionally worked for or…

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Rattlesnake Rodeo by Nick Kolakowski

By RoughJustice

16 October, 2020

The last time we saw Idaho bounty hunter Jake Tapper, his wife Janine, and his gun-running sister Frankie, they were walking away from a deadly encounter with some of the richest and most powerful men in Idaho. That story was told in Boise Longpig Hunting…

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Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple by Gary Phillips

By RoughJustice

13 July, 2020

Los Angeles-based author Gary Phillips has been writing crime in a variety of styles and media for nearly 30 years. I can remember reading about his black PI, Ivan Monk, in books such as Violent Spring in the late 90s. He’s since branched out into…

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Rolling Thunder by AJ Devlin

By crimefictionlover

22 June, 2020

With a lurid magenta cover and a private detective who is larger-than-life, AJ Devlin’s Rolling Thunder is the right kind of contemporary pulp crime novel to read if you want to get your mind off COVID-19, Donald Trump, Brexit and all the other nonsense going…

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Man of the World by Paul D Brazill

By crimefictionlover

28 April, 2020

Brit grit author Paul D Brazill follows his 2018 novella Last Year’s Man with a return to Seatown, where we pick up the continuing story of hitman Tommy Bennett. Perched somewhere on the Northeast coast, Seatown is cold, wet and windy, the kind of place…

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Later by Stephen King

Like Flies from Afar by K Ferrari

First look: Ms Tree – The Cold Dish

Skim Deep by Max Allan Collins

Rattlesnake Rodeo by Nick Kolakowski

Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple by Gary Phillips

Rolling Thunder by AJ Devlin

Man of the World by Paul D Brazill

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