Mysterious Book Report No. 36 – A Killer’s Essence

By |2016-01-20T08:21:14+00:00January 20th, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

A Killer’s Essence by Dave Zeltserman Overlook, $23.95, 240 pages, ISBN 978-1-59020-321-7 This week’s MBR is a noir-police-procedural-serial-killer-mystery with a supernatural twist.  (And no, I haven’t been duct-taped to a chair in a windowless room listening to Weird Al Yankovitch all week.)  All joking aside, it’s a nifty piece of writing by an up- and-comer named Dave Zeltserman.  The novel is A Killer’s Essence. (Overlook, $23.95, 240 pages, ISBN

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Mysterious Book Report No. 22 – Galveston

By |2016-01-02T11:28:11+00:00January 2nd, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto Scribner, $15.00, 258 pages, ISBN 978-1-4391-6666-6 Tough guys . . . that’s the subject of this weeks MBR number twenty-two.  Now.  I realize when I wrote the preceding sentence, that every one of you readers out there remember a tough guy, or gal, know a tough person or two . . . heck, maybe you are a tough individual with the chops to prove it. 

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Mysterious Book Report No. 17 – London Boulevard

By |2015-12-28T19:36:55+00:00December 28th, 2015|Mysterious Book Report|

London Boulevard by Ken Bruen (Minotaur, 2009, $24.99, 250 pages, ISBN 978-0-312-56168-0) With all the hoo-hah, fubaring and gigantic jug-flinging coming from our nation’s capitol these days, as well as daily displays of incompetence and rooster-crowing by our elected representatives of every stripe . . . I just had to take a break from the news and current events.  So, paraphrasing John Prine, (one of my wife June’s favorite

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Mysterious Book Report No. 12 – Cold Shot To The Heart

By |2015-12-23T07:19:15+00:00December 23rd, 2015|Mysterious Book Report|

Cold Shot To The Heart by Wallace Stroby Minotaur, $24.99. 289 pages, ISBN 978-0-312-56025-6 I’d like to suggest author Wallace Stroby’s newest, Cold Shot To The Heart, the fourth in a series of blue-collar, tough-guy noir crime fiction novels featuring career criminal Crissa Stone.  (Can you say it fast, three times?  Nah, me either.) The novel begins in New York City, where Crissa is recruited for an armed robbery

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Mysterious Book Report No. 8 – Field Gray

By |2015-12-19T12:53:53+00:00December 19th, 2015|Mysterious Book Report|

 Field Gray by Philip Kerr (Putnam, $26.95, 435 pages, ISBN 978-0-399-15741-7) Have you ever thought about your dreams, noticed how real they seem when you’re asleep?  But then when you awake, it’s just in time to escape, or lose the elusive goal that’s always just out of reach?  That’s how mine end anyway.  But what if you couldn’t wake up?  What if your nightmare never ended?  What then?  How would

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