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Looks like you’re new here. Get all the fun of 52 Novels as it happens and subscribe by e-mail or subscribe using your favorite RSS feed reader. Might as well. Don’t cost nothin.Some of you have e-mailed to ask, “What’s taking you so long to read Joe Hill’s HEART SHAPED BOX?”
Good question. After all, it’s [...]
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39 Not sure what to call this book. The sequel’s sequel? I’m being a little flip because I don’t know whether I liked this book.
Mark Winegardner wrote another pageturner. But it’s not as if he did it from nothing. The characters from the Universe That Puzo Made are already rich and well known.
It’s as [...]
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38 I picked this book for two reasons:
Lots of crime fic readers—Lehane fans a given—recommended it highly.
I knew the movie was getting lots of advance buzz, so I wanted to read it before I saw it.
That said, I waited to write this review (which I’m doing on November 11th… the post date says October 17th) [...]
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37 What do you get when you mix a drunk, down-and-out former-PI with a trio of beautiful girls and a murder?
The perfect Ed McBain novel, that’s what.
Well, perfect might be a stretch. Let’s just say it’s a perfect Ed McBain novel from his salad days. By the time THE GUTTER AND THE GRAVE was hit [...]
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36 ”The road the Hell is paved with good intentions.”
Whoever uttered this famous quote—it wasn’t Samuel Johnson—knew what he was talking about.
Such is the tale of CON ED’s Kip Largo, a wannabe reformed con man who gets pulled back into the game to save his son from the States-side edition of the Russian Mob.
In the span [...]
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