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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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2006
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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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Bury it Deep
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1993
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Dooley's Back
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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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| Silicon Valley is where it's all happening these days, and this novel is a look at the madcap world of AI startups, venture capital, IPOs and the quest for unicorns. I'm tempted to call it a satirical look, but in the contemporary world truth is rout ...more | |
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| John McWhorter is the leading popularizer of the science of linguistics. Ask someone what linguistics is and you might get a puzzled look; we use language unthinkingly, without stopping to consider just what an amazing phenomenon it really is. How di ...more | |
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| As one who has resisted the extreme political polarization of our time and hoped for restoration of a pragmatic, moderate center, I am definitely a member of the target audience for this book; even if you incline to one of the extremes, I'd urge you ...more | |
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| Household was one of the best of the old-school British thriller writers; this one, published in 1982, is a late-career sequel to his classic Rogue Male, which made his reputation back in 1939. In that one, his hero Raymond Ingelram, an English count ...more | |
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| I'm superficially familiar with the history and geography of Pakistan, but until I picked up this novel I had no sense at all of what life there is really like. That is what we have novels for. A good novel takes you inside the life of a place and le ...more | |
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| The mark of a great mystery series is that even when there's not that much to a story the books will keep us entertained for an evening or two because all the trappings are there, the familiar touchstones that are the real reason we keep coming back: ...more | |
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| The Bastards of Pizzofalcone series is a sort of a cross between the 87th Precinct and Slow Horses, set in Naples and featuring a team of disgraced cops relegated to a backwater police district and expected to stay out of trouble. Against all expecta ...more | |
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| Early Margery Allingham (1930), when her hero Albert Campion was still a bit silly, an upper-class amateur sleuth disguising his remarkable powers with upper-class twit frivolity. The later books, which take a more serious tone as Campion matures, ar ...more | |
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This is a sharp, smart, noirish novel set in contemporary London, with a whiff of Kingsley Amis-style social satire and elements of mystery, intrigue and black humor. Right up to the end I was really enjoying it. More on that denouement below. It's to ...more |
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| This is a history of the long-running effort by the Soviet Union and its successor state Russia to plant long-term sleeper agents ("illegals" in intelligence jargon) in the West. The project was ambitious and improbable: to train agents to adopt and ...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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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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Hi Sam,Thanks for sending a friend request to this fellow crime writer on Goodreads!
