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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.25 The third installment in Eisler’s RAIN series didn’t disappoint.
All the elements were there: action packed from page one… mad assassins gettin [...]
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23 When Ed McBain died a couple of years ago it meant that everyone else on the list of awesomely great living police procedural writers moved up one spot.
For my money, there was wide gap between McBain’s spot atop the list and the number two… which isn’t saying that that number two was a [...]
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22 Quick and dirty. Okay. Not so much dirty.
But, as always, this Queen mystery flew by like a third grader’s summer vacation.
Not only should we beware young strangers, but also crazy wealth. It seems that most of the Queen mysteries I’ve read from the early-60s feature rich people getting themselves into trouble.
Our moral? Hell, your [...]
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23 Interesting little tale with a fitting play on words, considering the setting of World War II London.
This somewhat recent—and short—offering from one of this generation’s finest was tightly spun. But as Chabon himself said in current interviews about THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNION, he tends to overwrite. At 113 pages or so, I can imagine [...]
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20 Boy. This one took forever and a day to finish.
I liked the story and writing fine. The book just didn’t sing for me until the end of the second act, yet it didn’t sag, either. I think it just seemed long to me so I muddled it.
I have to admit that Case does an [...]
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