BLOOD IN THE WATER:THE ATTICA PRISON UPRISING OF 1971 AND IT'S LEGACY Heather Ann Thompson Pantheon Books August, 2016 This book broke my heart. I can't think of the last book I've read that hit me on such a profound emotional level. The Attica Prison Uprising...
This past weekend at Bouchercon Chris Holm won the Anthony Award for Best Novel for THE KILLING KIND. He joins a list of authors who have put out some amazing books and the list of books is like a “what to read” if you love mysteries. If you read THE KILLING KIND you...
Robert. B. Parker’s Debt To Pay Reed Farrel Coleman Sept 13th, 2016 G.P. Putnam’s Sons Robert. B. Parker’s Debt To Pay by Reed Farrel Coleman ingeniously creates a cat and mouse story. In bringing back the serial killer, assassin, and terrorist Mr. Peepers the plot...
HARD-CORE: LIFE OF MY OWN Harley Flanagan 2016 Feral House Harley Flanagan has been on my radar for years. Less for the music of the Cro Mags and more for the fact that for as long as I can remember, he has shown up in pictures and been mentioned in articles ranging...
THE EMERALD LIE Ken Bruen September 6, 2016 Mysterious Press Jack Taylor is typically a disaster of a man, teetering between always-tenuous sobriety and dedicated addiction to alcohol and…well, whatever’s handy. Jack drank himself off of Ireland’s police force, the...
That David Goodis is “the poet of the losers,” and that his universe is as cold as the frosty sleet-driven winds of Philadelphia’s November, has been eloquently stated. In his room in his parents’ comfortable house in East Oak Lane, he could write about his own city,...
