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This somewhat recent—and short—offering from one [...]
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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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19 David Housewright, where have you been all my life?
Seriously, this book was awesome from start to finish. I’m not a great big fan of the PI novel, but what Housewright has done with the character of Mac McKenzie is top notch.
There’s humor and humility. Emotion and realism. Mac isn’t particularly tough, but he holds [...]
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18 Trademark Eisler: Ice cold revenge and firecracker hot sex from a ruthless assassin. Cast the “Lush Life” against the backdrop of the ultrahip Tokyo skyline and it doesn’t get any better than that.
I loved this second installment in the Rain series so much that, before I’d finished the second chapter, I rushed to pick [...]
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17 Another ARC… so I have to be careful about what I say about the upcoming fourth installment of the Jack Daniels thriller series, due in July from Hyperion.
As I mentioned with RUSTY NAIL, JA Konrath has really hit his stride with this series and his comfort with his characters remains evident. On the one [...]
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