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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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| 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 | |
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| This is the book that was the basis for the movie Topkapi. I'm a big Eric Ambler fan, and film adaptations of favorite books often disappoint, but I like the movie despite the fact that it departs from the novel in various ways. They are both very en ...more | |
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| The territory Joseph Kanon has staked out for his literate and complex thrillers is the couple of decades following the Second World War, when the two principal victors, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, squared off and settled into the Cold War. This c ...more | |
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Yes, this is the Michael Palin of Monty Python fame, moonlighting as a nautical historian. (He is not the only ex-Python to take up history; Terry J0nes authored a history of the fall of Rome from the point of view of the barbarians.) The Erebus was ...more |
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| This is an interesting, even gripping novel; I breezed right through it and was glad I did. But it's also a grim and depressing one. Going by the two cover blurbs ("Brave, funny..." and "So sharp and funny...") you'd expect at least a few laughs alon ...more | |
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I really like Gavin Lyall's Major Maxim series, one of the best military espionage series ever. This is one of his earlier works from 1972, a stand-alone featuring an ex-military intelligence officer working as a private security consultant. James Car ...more |
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“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 ...: dec 2009 - sandi | 3 | 31 | Dec 31, 2009 10:53PM | |
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| Mystery/Thriller ...: august 2010 - sandi | 11 | 61 | Sep 08, 2010 06:16AM | |
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| Mystery/Thriller ...: Bouchercon in retrospect | 39 | 139 | Nov 05, 2010 01:53PM | |
| Mystery/Thriller ...: Bouchercon 2012, Day One (Thursday) | 16 | 21 | Oct 08, 2012 08:37PM | |
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| Crime Detective M...: Upcoming Nominations for Group Reading | 63 | 83 | Sep 12, 2015 08:09AM |
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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!
