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A Mexican drug lord thinks the McCray boys in rural Missouri will be a pushover when their lush marijuana crops cut into the cartel's business. But the McCrays live by guns and blood, and it hardly matters that they've got not only cartel soldiers to deal with but also FBI undercover agent Jill Murphy. Here's a book as fast and brutal as anything Jim Thompson or Elmore Leonard ever dreamed up, steeped in local color and infused with characters drawn from life. Says Publishers Weekly: "Kennedy shows some impressive storytelling chops in this high-action, heavy-body-count page-turner. . . . Not for the faint of heart." Booklist: "Fast-moving, wildly violent . . . vivid and rich in character. Strong, well-realized country noir, much in the manner of Daniel Woodrell's Give Us a Kiss." Bill Crider: "The two opening chapters of Missouri Homegrown are as brutal as anything I've read, and Jesse James Kennedy is just getting warmed up." (Read the full review here. ) St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Jesse James Kennedy lives up to his first and middle names in Missouri Homegrown. Enough gunshots to qualify as ground combat."
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The McCrays take on Tijuana, and Booklist is ready for the rumble: "Mean as ever . . . stepping over the bodies--a lot of them. . . . Kennedy's involvement with his material has deepened. In heightened language, he explores the odd bond between cops and criminals, the poisonous tension between father and son. These are gripping, beautifully executed scenes, and there's still plenty of the McCray business-as-usual: robbing corpses, chopping off arms, pushing lit cigarettes into open wounds. How do McCrays handle competitors? 'We kill them.' "
While sexy cousin Tracy combats poachers trying to steal the weed crop, her fugitive cousins take the pot-dealing war to the enemy’s hometown. With FBI agents on their trail—including Jill Murphy, who may have a thing for one-eyed Jay McCray—the Americans square off with the Tijuana Cartel in a ruthless game that gives new meaning to the phrase “paint the town red.” 243 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
While sexy cousin Tracy combats poachers trying to steal the weed crop, her fugitive cousins take the pot-dealing war to the enemy’s hometown. With FBI agents on their trail—including Jill Murphy, who may have a thing for one-eyed Jay McCray—the Americans square off with the Tijuana Cartel in a ruthless game that gives new meaning to the phrase “paint the town red.” 243 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
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Book 3 of the high-velocity McCray Saga, praised by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and other admirers of strong rural noir. It's showdown time in the Black Hills between the McCray boys, a blood-drenched biker gang, and an FBI team including one conflicted female agent.
The Big Thrill interviews Jesse James Kennedy about Black Hills Reckoning here.
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Steve Steinbock, Ellery Queen's: "Terence Faherty’s new novel about Hollywood P.I. Scott Elliott is a masterpiece of hardboiled narrative style. The Scott Elliott series, including numerous short stories that have appeared in EQMM, has covered a period spanning decades. Finely tuned Southern California noir filled with half a century of Hollywood allusions and illusion."
Booklist loves it! "Early on, a woman purrs to the hero, 'I love it when you talk like a B-picture detective.' We know at once we’re reading a movie-drenched detective novel, echoing the look and sound of 1940s gumshoe flicks. The story is set in 1974, but even the premise, which sees L.A. PI Scott Elliott summoned to the home of a hot-shot young filmmaker, serves to rush us further into the past. The movie guy wants to learn more about a sting Elliott helped orchestrate on a racketeer back in the fifties. It connects to a puzzling mystery involving the unsolved murder of a big-band singer, killed in a nightclub part-owned by Errol Flynn. Now the singer’s sister, who’s been searching for the killer for years, is herself murdered. Overcomplicated? Yes. But did you ever figure out how the Sternwood chauffeur got into that canal in The Big Sleep? Readers will know to relish the pack of Luckies and the Rexall drugstore with a phone booth. And the allusions. Aren’t PIs big drinkers? 'Ever since Nick Charles,' Elliott laments, 'we’ve been trying to cut back.' " Don Crinklaw
So does James Reasoner: "[I]n the Raymond Chandler/Ross Macdonald vein, all the way down to a late reference to a Chandler novel that provides a clue. The plot is properly convoluted, involving mobsters, a con game, a beautiful torch singer, movie stars, blackmail, black marketeering during World War II, and numerous secrets bubbling up from the past to cause trouble in the present. To put it simply, this is a wonderful book. . . . Don’t let anybody tell you they don’t write ’em like they used to." Read the full review here.
Booklist loves it! "Early on, a woman purrs to the hero, 'I love it when you talk like a B-picture detective.' We know at once we’re reading a movie-drenched detective novel, echoing the look and sound of 1940s gumshoe flicks. The story is set in 1974, but even the premise, which sees L.A. PI Scott Elliott summoned to the home of a hot-shot young filmmaker, serves to rush us further into the past. The movie guy wants to learn more about a sting Elliott helped orchestrate on a racketeer back in the fifties. It connects to a puzzling mystery involving the unsolved murder of a big-band singer, killed in a nightclub part-owned by Errol Flynn. Now the singer’s sister, who’s been searching for the killer for years, is herself murdered. Overcomplicated? Yes. But did you ever figure out how the Sternwood chauffeur got into that canal in The Big Sleep? Readers will know to relish the pack of Luckies and the Rexall drugstore with a phone booth. And the allusions. Aren’t PIs big drinkers? 'Ever since Nick Charles,' Elliott laments, 'we’ve been trying to cut back.' " Don Crinklaw
So does James Reasoner: "[I]n the Raymond Chandler/Ross Macdonald vein, all the way down to a late reference to a Chandler novel that provides a clue. The plot is properly convoluted, involving mobsters, a con game, a beautiful torch singer, movie stars, blackmail, black marketeering during World War II, and numerous secrets bubbling up from the past to cause trouble in the present. To put it simply, this is a wonderful book. . . . Don’t let anybody tell you they don’t write ’em like they used to." Read the full review here.
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"Dick Lochte is a superb craftsman. . . . The Neon Smile, with its tantalizing blend of past and present, is Lochte at his best." Sue Grafton "The Neon Smile is as colorful and entertaining as any police thriller ever inspired by the Big Easy." Joseph Wambaugh "Chockful of dark humor, wordplay and subtle clues, the novel is rich enough to reward multiple readings." Publishers Weekly Starred Review "I couldn't put The Neon Smile down. Terry Manion grabbed me . . . and pulled me deeper and tighter with every passing line! Dick Lochte is an artist; the book is literate, intelligent, funny, loving and a helluva good read." Robert Crais
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BRONX NOIR
A dead girl in a blood-soaked basement and a young loser wrongly accused of murder. Private eye Sam Free faces crooked cops and judges in a tale as gritty as a Bronx back alley.
Jay Stringer interviews Uriel E. Gribetz about Bronx private detective Sam Free for the excellent DoSomeDamage blog. Read here. The Bill Thrill, the newsletter of the International Thriller Writers, interviews Uriel Gribetz here.
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Jay Stringer interviews Uriel E. Gribetz about Bronx private detective Sam Free for the excellent DoSomeDamage blog. Read here. The Bill Thrill, the newsletter of the International Thriller Writers, interviews Uriel Gribetz here.
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Edgar-winning playwright Joseph Goodrich presents nine short noir plays
Author-dramatist Joseph Goodrich's drama Panic won an Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America in 2008 for Best Play. Here Goodrich offers a selection of short early plays that draw on the traditions of modernism and noir. The episodes seethe with violence and desperation. "There are no happy endings," says Goodrich in his introduction.
SOUTH OF SUNSETNine PlaysJoseph Goodrich134 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
Author-dramatist Joseph Goodrich's drama Panic won an Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America in 2008 for Best Play. Here Goodrich offers a selection of short early plays that draw on the traditions of modernism and noir. The episodes seethe with violence and desperation. "There are no happy endings," says Goodrich in his introduction.
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Robert J. Randisi ranks among the most prolific contemporary fiction writers, with more than 600 novels to his credit in the mystery, western and other genres. Here's a crime novel tough as a .38 slug. Jake Gilmartin's old pals on the New York Police Department are out to murder him before he can expose a Killer Cop Squad in the department. The only man who can help Jake is his son, who hates his guts.
"No fat on its bones. Never slows down." Bill Crider "Rockets along. A good, tough cop thriller." James Reasoner
(Previously published as The Bottom of Every Bottle)
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(Previously published as The Bottom of Every Bottle)
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The President's dirty little secret is deadly. Hayes Rutherford did his stint in Vietnam, flying a rescue chopper that earned him the nickname "Last Chance." And he was a standup guy forty years later when someone had to take the fall for a Pentagon billing scandal. After 18 months in a federal pen, Hayes figures he's done with the Washington crowd. Working for his daughter at a Hollywood P.I. firm, his biggest challenge is keeping the talent's nose out of the candy. But when rumors ping the White House that somebody is shopping an ugly movie script about the war-hero President, Hayes looks like suspect number one. Good thing he's in Hollywood, where anything goes, including a scheme to shake down the President who wants to kill him. 350 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
Publishers Weekly: "Snappy mystery. Ross generates an enjoyable noir vibe with his snarky hero. He has also crafted a fine puzzle that doesn't require a deep understanding of high finance to appreciate."
There's no plunge-protection team waiting when an ex-hedge fund manager goes off a hotel balcony. Nor is there anyone to rescue stockbroker sleuth John McCarthy and his actress wife Robin if they make a misstep in exposing a massive financial crime. As for those frisky markets and the wobbly economy, what's holding them up? 314 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
There's no plunge-protection team waiting when an ex-hedge fund manager goes off a hotel balcony. Nor is there anyone to rescue stockbroker sleuth John McCarthy and his actress wife Robin if they make a misstep in exposing a massive financial crime. As for those frisky markets and the wobbly economy, what's holding them up? 314 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
"Charming thriller . . . chases across Europe and tightly written gun battles. A delight for anyone who enjoys French crime cinema from the 1970s." Publishers Weekly A retired criminal, who wants nothing more than to be left alone to enjoy his ill-gotten gains . . . Charles Mistinguett would never claim to be innocent of all things, only of the charges laid against him by the French government: Murder. Extortion. Terrorism. Useful lies if agents of the state plan to execute a man without trial.
"Charles is everybody's fall guy," says Booklist, "but he's not quite ready to fall--and definitely not ready to see his mistress, daughter, and son fall with him. This slick thriller combines the noirish cool of French cinema (think Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai) with an almost jaunty, witty charm (Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief and Charade). Stylishly written and cleverly plotted crime fiction." 202 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
"Charles is everybody's fall guy," says Booklist, "but he's not quite ready to fall--and definitely not ready to see his mistress, daughter, and son fall with him. This slick thriller combines the noirish cool of French cinema (think Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai) with an almost jaunty, witty charm (Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief and Charade). Stylishly written and cleverly plotted crime fiction." 202 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
"Fans of hard-edged spy novels will hope that this outing for disgraced Wall Street banker Patrick McCarry is but the first of many from Ross (Long Pig). Twists straight out of John le Carré [and ] sardonic wit." Publishers Weekly
Patrick McCarry, a down-on-his-luck Wall Street banker, can't expect much sympathy back home. A hedge fund has blown up, and McCarry looks just the right size for a federal prison cell. Hanging out in Europe, he hooks up with a folksy Midwesterner who wants help picking through failed businesses. Chester Holt and his ample wife Charity have a homily for every occasion. One of them is "Don't be a doom and gloomster!" That means: If you're right on the doorstep of the Balkans, pretty soon somebody is going to want to buy guns from you." 180 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
Patrick McCarry, a down-on-his-luck Wall Street banker, can't expect much sympathy back home. A hedge fund has blown up, and McCarry looks just the right size for a federal prison cell. Hanging out in Europe, he hooks up with a folksy Midwesterner who wants help picking through failed businesses. Chester Holt and his ample wife Charity have a homily for every occasion. One of them is "Don't be a doom and gloomster!" That means: If you're right on the doorstep of the Balkans, pretty soon somebody is going to want to buy guns from you." 180 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart