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DJ, please begin with some Trance, to set the mood

December 4, 2008

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My first mention in Kirkus Reviews

May 28, 2008

Seems I’ve backed my way in. Here’s a snippet of the review: FUZZY NAVEL In the beginning were the three murderous members of The Urban Hunting Club: Swanson, Munchel and Pessolano. Conceived by Swanson in righteous anger, TUHC has taken it upon itself to kill perverts. Rob Siders, who attacked Swanson’s beloved wife… May 15, [...]

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THE GODFATHER’S REVENGE, by Mark Winegardner

November 3, 2007

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 [...]

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GONE, BABY, GONE, by Dennis Lehane

October 17, 2007

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 [...]

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THE GUTTER AND THE GRAVE, by Ed McBain

September 25, 2007

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 [...]

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CON ED, by Matthew Klein

September 24, 2007

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. [...]

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