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A Neon Hollywood Donnybrook: A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper

By Rob D. Smith / Reading A Violent Masterpiece is like stepping into the ring with a hybrid middle-weight pugilist. Jordan Harper isn’t...

By Todd Robins / If Joseph Conrad and John Le Carre convened in Cornwall to conjure a spy story for the ages, they might not imagine a...

September 4, 2024• Book Reviews

By Todd Robins / In Michael Harvey’s vivid and riveting standalone crime novel, the prize-winning, middle-aged newspaper reporter Kevin...

October 18, 2023• Book Reviews, Essays

River of Sticks ...

Mouth to Mouth Antoine Wilson Avid Reader Press, Simon & Schuster January 2022 ...

Though The Ice Harvest and The Adjustment are in the argument...

June 13, 2021• Book Reviews

By Thomas Pluck / The older I get, the more I appreciate the short novel. Not every story needs to be an Ellroy epic, but not every story...