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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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| "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 | |
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| I’m a sucker for tough-guy street talk in noir novels, and "Queenpin" by Megan Abbott is loaded with it. As in, “She fell hard, like I knew she would, and by the time Clancy and Nast returned, she was recanting like Galileo.” Or, “Can the schoolgirl ...more | |
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| Ike and Buddy Lee, two grieving ex-con fathers, one black and the other white, propel this story. They're grieving because their gay sons married each other, though neither father had come to terms with their sons being gay. After the sons are savage ...more | |
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Issey, the protagonist of this very funny novel, is a sharp dresser, an enthusiastic professional thief, and a man of scruples. He lives by the code of French bank robber Albert Spaggiari — no weapons, no violence. But financial success eludes him. “B ...more |
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