I'm usually a huge fan of Mr. Starr. I consider him to be the Jim Thompson of Generation X. His plots are always noir-ishly dark and you often can't tell much of a difference between his heroes and his villains.His latest book starts with a house robbery gone bad. And the rest of the book deals w...
What I don’t like is when I find the first chapter of the author’s next book added on to the end of the book I’m reading, like a free download or like junk mail. You don’t see Marcel Proust or Margaret Atwood doing that. It’s really not classy.What I do like is another tale of a guy coming apart ...
If you like noir where the protagonist starts off with a problem and descends deeper and deeper into the circles of his/her personal hell, you will be pleased with most of the novels published in the Hard Case Crime series. Sometimes, we get a bit of catharsis when a character with seeming little...
Bill Moss should by now be something big in advertising, but instead finds himself making cold calls in a New York office, working for a man he hates and living with a woman who annoys him. Sometimes life in the big city isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and it can be easy to overreact when somethi...