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OJ's Knife by John Gibson

By Paul Burke

5 November, 2021

OJ’s Knife is a fast-paced and entertaining speculative pulp novel in the Mickey Judge series. It’s based on a fictional hunt for the weapon that killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1994, crimes for which Nicole’s husband, the American Football legend and film…

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A Few Days Away by Tony Knighton

By Paul Burke

4 October, 2021

A Few Days Away is a hard-edged contemporary noir novel with a relentless anti-hero – a thief with no name. He is hell-bent on revenge and recovering the money that went missing after a bungled robbery that left his partner dead. It’s the second in…

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Against the Law by David Gordon

By RoughJustice

31 May, 2021

This is the third Joe the Bouncer novel, following on from The Bouncer (2018) and The Hard Stuff (2019). Joe Brody is indeed a bouncer. But as well as working the door at a New York strip club Joe does a lot of things. His…

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A Certain Man's Daughter by Timothy J Lockhart

By Paul Burke

6 May, 2021

Stark House Press does a grand job bringing classic American pulp novels to a new audience and occasionally publishes contemporary tales that catch the spirit of those mid-20th century originals. Timothy J Lockhart’s A Certain Man’s Daughter, the title drawn from a poem, is in…

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The Plastic Nightmare and While Love Lay Sleeping by Richard Neely

By Paul Burke

19 April, 2021

Like a lot of American pulp authors, Richard Neely started out a newspaperman. He then embarked on a successful career in advertising before turning to crime writing in his 50s. In 14 years he produced 15 novels. This volume contains his second and third books,…

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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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OJ's Knife by John Gibson

A Few Days Away by Tony Knighton

Against the Law by David Gordon

A Certain Man's Daughter by Timothy J Lockhart

The Plastic Nightmare and While Love Lay Sleeping by Richard Neely

Later by Stephen King

Like Flies from Afar by K Ferrari

First look: Ms Tree – The Cold Dish

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