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"The Quickie" and the dead

July 23, 2007 by Dave Knadler

Right up front: I haven’t read “The Quickie,” the latest book with James Patterson’s name on it. The title seems apt enough, but I was wondering: Why use it now, instead of a dozen books ago? Patterson’s hirelings have been turning out volumes of this description for at least a decade. Next up: “The […]

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Here’s a pretty good summer read

July 21, 2007 by Dave Knadler

My brother is a far more voracious reader than I am, so a good part of my paperback collection consists of titles he’s passing along. That’s how I came by Sean Doolittle‘s fourth novel, “The Cleanup.” Mike gave it to me months ago, but I only recently got around to reading it. In terms […]

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The supernatural in crime fiction

July 20, 2007 by Dave Knadler

In the James Lee Burke novel “Jolie Blon’s Bounce,” he introduces a character named Legion Guidry, a man who appears by the end of the book to be, if not the Devil himself, then at least pretty high up in Lucifer’s chain of command. Burke has flirted with the supernatural before, with the ghosts […]

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Norwegian writer impresses local man

July 18, 2007 by Dave Knadler

At the recommendation of my former colleague Peter (Detectives Beyond Borders), I just read Karin Fossum’s “He Who Fears the Wolf.” I recently decided I needed to broaden my reading list to include more female authors and more foreign ones. Fossum, with her stalwart fans and arsenal of glowing reviews, seemed like a good […]

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Mike’s verdict: Rankin has done better

July 18, 2007 by Dave Knadler

My brother Mike, whose unstated mission in life is to read every mystery and thriller ever written, has this to say on Ian Rankin’s latest, “The Naming of the Dead.” “I have to admit I was just a little disappointed. It seemed somewhat disjointed. There were some great lines there, though, some real laugh-out-loud […]

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The worst book I’ve read this year …

July 3, 2007 by Dave Knadler

… is “A Small Death in Lisbon” by Robert Wilson. Actually, it’s not the worst — that distinction goes to Harlen Coben’s dreadful “Promise Me” — I just liked the best-worst symmetry of this and the preceding post. Still, I didn’t much like this book. While I admire the author’s ambition and research, this […]

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The best book I’ve read this year …

July 1, 2007 by Dave Knadler

… is Martin Cruz Smith’s “Stalin’s Ghost.” The morose and laconic Arkady Renko returns for the sixth time since his debut in the brilliant “Gorky Park” of 1982. This time he’s back in Moscow, which has changed a great deal in 25 years. It’s a city where the excesses of capitalism and corruption have […]

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