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Here’s a little round-up of what our main man of crime fiction Scott M. and his cohorts have been talking about over yonder on the MysteryPeople blog recently:
The Wrath of Angels by John Connolly
“As usual it’s the writing that makes this book tick. Connolly’s prose has a gothic, old world feel combined with modern hard boiled dialogue. Charlie speaks and thinks in flippant PI asides as he walks in a world that is practically classic myth. By grounding the story in Charlie’s emotions and life, the mythic and horror elements are believable to the reader. It’s there where the hard boiled and really gothic meet.” – Read the rest of the review
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The Intercept by Dick Wolf (creator of Law & Order)
“…nobody was more excited than me when it was announced that Dick Wolf was expanding his (Law & Order) dynasty into the literary world with his debut thriller The Intercept. This volume of intrigue reads like an episode of L&O, were the scope to be greatly expanded to include multiple venues of international terror…The Intercept introduces us to Jeremy Fisk, a put-upon intelligence officer working within the NYPD to thwart large scale threats before they become critical. Fisk must risk his rank, his relationships, and (obviously) his life to protect the world from the most insidious, ingenious, and convolved scheme that Al Quaeda has ever formulated. Filled with espionage, high treason, and good, old-fashioned detective work, The Intercept is as puzzling, shocking, and fun as hard-core fans, such as my begrudging self, have come to expect from the master of the police procedural.” – Read the rest of the review
Frank Sinatra in a Blender by Matthew McBride
“Occasionally a debut book comes along that truly announces itself as well as its author. In my time, it’s been Scott Phillip’s The Ice Harvest, Craig Johnson with The Cold Dish, and Die A Little by Megan Abbott. Matthew McBride now tosses a fresh stick of dynamite into the crime fiction fire withFrank Sinatra In A Blender….McBride takes those mean streets that Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer strode, that border on the real and pulp fantasy, and does it one better. His St. Louis is populated by the likes of characters like Fat Tony, a smart cop who’s background gives him the name of Amish Ron; Sid, an Irish hood who could be a refugee from a Ken Bruen novel; and Sid’s partner No Nuts…McBride turns it up to eleven and doesn’t stop.” – Read the rest of the review
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