Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Laura Lippman: Sunburn

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I read Laura Lippman's new thriller, Sunburn , already a month ago, when we were coming back from Crete. I started it in a plane and w...
Friday, June 15, 2018

Friday's Forgotten Book: Gardner F. Fox: Barbary Slave

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We did a week-long trip to Chania and Gerani in Crete, and I took, as usual with our trips, my Kindle along. I didn't get to read much (...
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Friday, June 08, 2018

Grover Brinkman

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When I was doing my ground-breaking first book, Pulpografia , the encyclopedia of over 300 American pulp and paperback crime writers publish...
Tuesday, June 05, 2018

Otso Kantokorpi ja dekkarit

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Dekkariseuran Ruumiin kulttuuri 80-luvulta, jolloin Otso lehteen kirjoitti Oops! This went to a wrong blog, I meant to post this on Jul...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Robert Silverberg: Gilgamesh the King

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I seem to have some difficulties with my reading. The two earlier books (and some others I haven't mentioned here in the blog) I almost ...
Saturday, May 05, 2018

Urban Waite: Sometimes the Wolf

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I really liked Urban Waite's first novel, The Terror of Living . It's a tough crime novel, a bit reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy, ...
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Friday, May 04, 2018

Photo of William Campbell Gault

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I once spotted a French Série noire edition of a novel by American hardboiled crime writer William Campbell Gault . As I don't speak Fre...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Favourite crime novels written by female authors

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For no apparent reason at all, I decided to list my favourite crime books written by woman writers. The list includes only books written ori...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Michael Moorcock: The Steel Tsar

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Just a quick note to possibly encourage more constant blogging: Finished the last entry in Michael Moorcock's Oswald Bastable trilogy,...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Paul Johnston: The Golden Silence

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Paul Johnston is a writer I've had some interest in for quite a while. His thrillers have been published in Finland only under Harlequi...
Wednesday, January 03, 2018

Marisha Pessl: Night Film

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During the holidays, I wanted to read - as always - something that is not at all related to my work, usually something criminous. Normally I...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Craig McDonald & Kevin Singles: Head Games

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I've never read any of the Hector Lassiter novels by Craig McDonald , but have read several good reviews of them, so I picked the graphi...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Friday's Forgotten Book: Bill Crider: Outrage at Blanco

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The Brash Books reprint. Don't think  they have sunglasses in the book... I've known Texan author Bill Crider for twenty years. ...
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Monday, November 13, 2017

Hard Case Crime comics: Triggerman, Peepland

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I've purchased three of the graphic novels Hard Case Crime has published: The Assignment, Triggerman and Peepland . It's interestin...
Wednesday, November 08, 2017

Celia Fremlin: Hours Before Dawn

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I remember Sarah Weinman mentioning Celia Fremlin as one of the domestic suspense writers who she needed to pay more attention to. When I fo...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Mack Bolan: The Fiery Cross

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The Fiery Cross , an 1988 entry in the Mack Bolan series, written by Mike Newton as by Don Pendleton, is something we sorely need, when the...
Friday, October 13, 2017

Anthony Neil Smith: All the Young Warriors

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I had a one-week holiday in the first week of September. I though I was going to read some crime novels that were sitting on my Kindle. Well...
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Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Where the Sidewalk Ends

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I'm a film noir buff, yet I haven't seen many classic film noirs everyone is already acquainted with. So I was lucky to finally see ...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Duane Swierczynski: Revolver

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I've been a fan of Duane Swierczynski's writing for a long time, and I ended up translating his break-through novel The Wheelman in...
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Monday, September 18, 2017

W. Glenn Duncan: Rafferty's Rules

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Lately I've been reading stuff that's been loaded on my Kindle, something I haven't been doing for ages. One of the books I'...
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