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Peter Moreira

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Peter Moreira is the author of The Haight Crime Series, in which Lieut. Jimmy Spracklin investigates crimes in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district in the late 1960s.

The series is the result of Peter’s love affair with Haight-Ashbury, which began when he hitchhiked twice to San Francisco from Vancouver in 1981. He adored the history, the friendly people, the romance of the setting. Throughout his career in journalism – which included postings in Ottawa, Hong Kong, Seoul and London – he kept mulling over the idea of a mystery set in Haight-Ashbury. He wanted to produce what he called a whodunnit with hippies.

As an author, Peter began with non-fiction, starting with Hemingway on the China Front in 2006. After a few non-fiction titles, The
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The Haight (The Haight Myst...

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Hemingway on the China Fron...

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I was surprised by how well rounded each character in this noir was. Even though Spracklin was a bit of a square, he was still a Kennedy Democrat, so he had some respect and empathy for all the hippies and deadbeats roaming a" Read more of this review »
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Ironwood by Michael Connelly
"Michael Connelly can sure churn out some good books. I was always a fan of the Bosch series, but I think I'm going to be a big Stil fan too. Always a great mystery with twists and turns, and not just once case, but two. I can always appreciate storie" Read more of this review »
$106,000 Blood Money - a Continental Op Short Story - #23 by Dashiell Hammett
"5 Stars. This one takes a less violent path than The Big-Knock-Over which ran in Black Mask in February 1927. But just as enjoyable. It's clear that Hammett foresaw a sequel to the bank robberies in .. Knock-Over as he allowed the mastermind to escap" Read more of this review »
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Forget the image of the tough-as-nails bully grinding down his opponent in a drawn-out slugfest. Howard Thaw's book paints a new picture of a successful negotiator: a person who listens, who strives to understands their counterparty's position and ne ...more
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The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty
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Re-reading this novel what really struck me is that McKinty doesn't let the setting overwhelm the story. That's no small thing. The Cold, Cold Ground is set in greater Belfast at the height of the Troubles -- riots, incendiary devices going off, hung ...more
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The first half of this tome gets five stars, the second half three stars. Chernow is a fantastic biographer, and he does a great job in the first 500,000 pages (or however long the first half is) of presenting the character of Samuel Clemens and the ...more
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