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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.26 John Rain, Part IV… nice work yet again from the best of the best of the hit man thrillers. (Of course, I [...]

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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 it on… ass whoopins galore!
Barry’s a self-described news junkie, that all he does is open the newspaper and the world takes care of his ideas.
Well, the world keeps teeing up softballs. Seems [...]

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24 A return to a classic!
This marks the first time since sometime in 2005 that I’ve re-read a book. Every book I’d read since January 2006 was new to me… until now.
There’s not much I can add to the discussion about MALTESE that hasn’t already been said, except that I loved it just as much [...]

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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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