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Jim’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jim Nesbitt
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Bigger Than Life
Take a look, chirren. Soon. Very soon.
Big news, chirren. HUUUUUUUGE. Just slapped a -30- on the final chapter of the next Ed Earl Burch hard-boiled Texas crime thriller — THE DEAD CERTAIN DOUBT.
That’s old-school, ink-stained-wretch talk for The End. Finito. Done.
Gonna let it marinate a bit overnight before cranking up the chainsaw for the miserable chore of editing, rewriti
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" No one walks deserts without reason, and never without fear of snakes. Sinister, subtle, and strange, the worst snake is human, hidden from justice, hidden unseen under the prettiest rocks. Awaiting to strike at the worst possible moment. Ed Earl Bu"
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“I've always thought hard-boiled detective novels an American art form. At their best, they're more than who-dun-its or thrillers, they're vehicles for a writer's observations about culture, politics, philosophy, music, history and a time or a place. Or life, it’s ownself. When you read James Ellroy, Dashiell Hammett or James Lee Burke, their stories are always about far more than good guys chasing bad guys. That’s the kind of book I wanted to write. Still do.”
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“When you write, you start with what you know and build from there. I knew a little something about the border, Texas and Mexico from my journalism days. Knew some cops and redneck outlaws, too. And I knew I wanted to write a noirish detective novel. So I started with that and went from there. Out popped Ed Earl Burch, Carla Sue Cantrell and THE LAST SECOND CHANCE: An Ed Earl Burch Novel.”
― The Last Second Chance: An Ed Earl Burch Novel
― The Last Second Chance: An Ed Earl Burch Novel
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“I've always thought hard-boiled detective novels an American art form. At their best, they're more than who-dun-its or thrillers, they're vehicles for a writer's observations about culture, politics, philosophy, music, history and a time or a place. Or life, it’s ownself. When you read James Ellroy, Dashiell Hammett or James Lee Burke, their stories are always about far more than good guys chasing bad guys. That’s the kind of book I wanted to write. Still do.”
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“When you write, you start with what you know and build from there. I knew a little something about the border, Texas and Mexico from my journalism days. Knew some cops and redneck outlaws, too. And I knew I wanted to write a noirish detective novel. So I started with that and went from there. Out popped Ed Earl Burch, Carla Sue Cantrell and THE LAST SECOND CHANCE: An Ed Earl Burch Novel.”
― The Last Second Chance: An Ed Earl Burch Novel
― The Last Second Chance: An Ed Earl Burch Novel
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