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Let’s start by acknowledging that this book has been panned elsewhere—but that’s because it must be approached from the right angle. Readers expecting a …
In a spectacular example of a post-war noir novel we have Billie Walker, a hardboiled PI following in her father’s tradition, with her specialty …
A brilliant novel that at first seems to be a simple murder case but grows into an expansive investigation of the nature of crime …
In the acknowledgments to this immersive debut, Walsh explains that she took a novel-writing course partly to convince herself not to write this series …
At 7:01 AM on an ordinary day, five people with significantly different backgrounds arrive at a London subway platform. One will die when the …
The body of a young woman is found in the desert outside a nothing Texas town, stirring memories of the murder of the daughter …