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Sam’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Sam Reaves
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Cold Black Earth
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2015
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Running in the Dark
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2018
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Homicide 69
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A Long Cold Fall (Cooper MacLeish, #1)
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1994
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Mean Town Blues: A Novel of Crime
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1991
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Fear Will Do It
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Dooley's Back: A Novel of Crime (Otto Penzler Books)
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Bury it Deep
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1993
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Get What's Coming
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1995
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Stalking Horse (Cooper MacLeish Book 5)
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Stalking Horse
Sometimes it takes a while…
Thirty years ago I was a young writer just trying to learn the business. (Now, of course, I’m an old writer still trying to learn the business.) In 1994 Putnam had published my first four novels, a crime series featuring a Chicago taxi driver named Cooper MacLeish. The first book, A Long Cold Fall, was never intended to be a series; I thought I was writing a stand-alone. Read more of this blog post »
Thirty years ago I was a young writer just trying to learn the business. (Now, of course, I’m an old writer still trying to learn the business.) In 1994 Putnam had published my first four novels, a crime series featuring a Chicago taxi driver named Cooper MacLeish. The first book, A Long Cold Fall, was never intended to be a series; I thought I was writing a stand-alone. Read more of this blog post »
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| Lawrence Durrell is best known for his Alexandria Quartet, four linked novels with an exotic setting, full of literary flourishes, eloquent language and eroticism. This is something different, a fairly straightforward adventure tale in the tradition ...more | |
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| Bob Woodward made his reputation digging up Watergate dirt along with Carl Bernstein and then went on to write more than a dozen other muckraking best sellers on a variety of political and cultural issues and personalities. This is his account of the ...more | |
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| Geoffrey Household is best known for his thriller Rogue Male, an enduring classic of the man-on-the-run subgenre. He wrote many other novels, most of them involving espionage or intrigue of some kind, with a wide variety of settings that reflected hi ...more | |
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| I wanted to like this book; it was enthusiastically recommended to me by a couple of people whose judgment I respect. Plus, it was nominated for the Man Booker prize. So presumably it was a superior sort of work. And it wasn't bad; it kept me absorbe ...more | |
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| Olivia Manning wrote six sequential novels in the 1960s based on her experiences in the Second World War. They are essentially one long novel, but they were soon grouped into two trilogies, one entitled The Balkan Trilogy and the other The Levant Tri ...more | |
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| Eric Ambler had a long and distinguished career, which can be divided into two periods, pre- and post-World War Two. In the thirties, Ambler arguably invented the modern spy genre with a handful of gritty, realistic thrillers set in a Europe under th ...more | |
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| I really like Deutermann's historical novels about the U.S. navy in World War II. If you have an interest in military history or the nuts and bolts of naval combat you will find a lot to like here. Deutermann, from a navy family and himself a veteran ...more | |
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| I first encountered the idea of "the Levant" in the books of Eric Ambler, the great British espionage novelist (see The Levanter, 1972). Ambler's tales of intrigue set in the Balkans and the Levant introduced British and American readers to the turbu ...more | |
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| I first encountered the idea of "the Levant" in the books of Eric Ambler, the great British espionage novelist (see The Levanter, 1972). Ambler's tales of intrigue set in the Balkans and the Levant introduced British and American readers to the turbu ...more | |
“They traded one of those looks only two people who have grown up together can trade, long and candid, and Rachel found herself hurting for him.”
― Cold Black Earth
― Cold Black Earth
“everybody was afraid and that the trick was to learn to function with fear.”
― Cold Black Earth
― Cold Black Earth
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| Mystery/Thriller ...: Bouchercon in retrospect | 39 | 139 | Nov 05, 2010 01:53PM | |
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Hi Sam. Thanks for friending this mystery & paranormal author. I hope you'll consider adding my books to your to-read list. Great to connect here. I'm looking forward to reading your reviews.Kris
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Magical Alienation: A Samantha Brennan and Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mystery
Hi Sam,Thanks for sending a friend request to this fellow crime writer on Goodreads!
