RUE MORGUE

"In his latest novel, Butcher’s Road (Lethe Press), Texan horror novelist Lee Thomas has drawn inspiration from a number of sources – magical sects, mafia lore, hard-boiled fiction, The Gold Dust Trio and 1930s gangland – for a story that is equal parts homage to Depression-era mystery pulp and dark-hearted fantastical noir. It also happens to be a sly subversion of the traditionally two-fisted hetero-normative roles and characters that have dominated the pages of crime-writing for decades."