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Ralph’s 2025 Year in Books
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Ralph Ellis
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Born
Waynesville, NC, The United States
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Influences
Jim Harrison (Brown Dog), William Cooper (Scenes from Provincial Life)
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Member Since
July 2024
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The Accident Report: A Ronald Truluck Novel
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| Lawyer Jessica Fischer is hired to defend high school football coach Tripp Wishingham in a paternity suit. The coach is a shining celebrity in the little Georgia town of Ashton, not to mention an entitled jerk. Jessica finds herself facing one ethica ...more | |
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| Raymond Chandler didn’t invent the hard-boiled crime novel, but this 1939 classic novel has come to define the genre. “The Big Sleep” has everything the genre demands: shadowy streets, urban corruption, slangy dialogue, a rotten rich family, unscrupu ...more | |
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| A sense of decline permeates this novel, the second in John le Carré’s Karla trilogy. It’s set in the 1970s as the British intelligence agency nicknamed The Circus is falling apart because of a double agent as the United States’ standing in the world ...more | |
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| Hard to believe this book was published in 1952. It’s full of violence and misogyny at levels that probably wouldn’t get published today. The first-person narrator is Lou Ford, who works as a deputy sheriff in a small Texas town and appears to be an ...more | |
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| This is the slowest-moving of the dozen or so Jack Reacher novels I’ve read. Our wandering hero gets off the train in a Midwest agricultural town only because he’s curious about the town’s name, Mother’s Rest. Fair enough. That’s how Reacher rolls. H ...more | |
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| "The Hunter" is what noir is all about. The reader goes deep inside the head of Parker, a man bent on revenge. He plows through the underworld to finally kill the man who did him wrong, leaving a trail of corpses in his wake. Parker casually violent ...more | |
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| This is one of the best crime novels I have ever read. Eddie Coyle, a small-time gunrunner, needs to make a deal with the law to avoid being sent back to prison. But the law is just as uncaring and corrupt as the crooks. The Boston setting is as blea ...more | |
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| This is the second Spenser novel and the one in which we meet Susan Silverman, the private eye’s long-term love interest. He’s looking for a missing teenage boy and she’s a guidance counselor at the high school he attends. It’s pretty much love at fi ...more | |
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| Rebecca McCarthy has a unique vantage point on Norman Maclean, author of "A River Runs Through It." As a teenager, she became his friend, thanks to her brother being a Forest Service employee near Maclean's summer home in Montana, and then a student ...more | |
