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Sam’s 2024 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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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: A Novel of Crime (Otto Penzler Books)
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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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| Elmore Leonard was at the top of his game in this one from 1988, his whole bag of tricks on display. Leonard's particular talent was to capture personality through dialogue and convey atmosphere with the sparest of detail. It's often said that his di ...more | |
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Having written a couple of Chicago cop novels myself, I'm always on the lookout for a good one. This is a good one. Chicagoan Tracy Clark knows the territory, in all senses of the word-- geographical, sociological and emotional. She's got the police p ...more |
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| This is an early Ross Thomas book, from 1967, apparently based on his experiences running a political campaign in Nigeria, though the country is given a fictional name and ambiguous location in the novel. (Thomas's extensive experience in journalism, ...more | |
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| The blurbs on this one say, "dark and disturbing", "not for the faint of heart" and "near-apocalyptic", and boy, are they right. If you don't want your nose rubbed in the details of brutal slayings and the interior lives of troubled people, steer cle ...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
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Mystery/Thriller ...: dec 2009 - sandi | 3 | 30 | 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 | 137 | Nov 05, 2010 01:53PM | |
| Mystery/Thriller ...: Bouchercon 2012, Day One (Thursday) | 16 | 21 | Oct 08, 2012 08:37PM | |
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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!
