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This marks the first time since sometime in 2005 that I’ve re-read a book. Every book I’d read [...]
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Last to first… the 52-in-52 from 2006.
The List: A technothriller by JA Konrath (I started this in 2006 and finished in 2007… it would’ve been #53)
Dead Man’s Tale by Ellery Queen
Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming
The Korean Intercept by Stephen Mertz
Dutch Uncle (Hard Case Crime (Paperback)) by Peter Pavia
Grave Descend (Hard Case Crime (Paperback)) [...]
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New review posted in the library: Madison Smartt Bell’s Straight Cut.
A tale of love and betrayal, it’s action packed with a taut narrative. Smart (there’s a pun again) writing and a real thriller. I loved it.
Good stuff, crime fiction fans.
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I liked this book a lot. It was fast paced with a nice twist at the end that I didn’t see coming. I should have. Testament to the writer.
I was reading one of the Amazon reviews of this book and the reviewer complained that Phillips didn’t update the hard-boiled style for 2004. Well, duh. It [...]
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This wasn’t a bad read. It was a little hokey at times … the best example of that was the liberal use of the exclamation “I declare” by the Southern female lead. And by liberal I mean about a thousand times. But that’s likely attributed to the period, as well as the nature of [...]
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