Category Archives: American Literature

Review: Miles to Little Ridge and Manhunter’s Mountain

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

Miles to Little Ridge The Blurb Edward A. Grainger’s Gideon Miles hits the trail in this fast-clip western novella written by Heath Lowrance. The U.S. Marshal finds himself in the sleepy town of Little Ridge, Montana, on the search for … Continue reading →

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Review: Deadland USA – Mindless Commercialism

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

The Book Blurb It’s all over now. The world as we knew it is gone forever and there will be no future generations to read this. One ugly day in March the undead came and none of us were ready. … Continue reading →

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Review: Dig Ten Graves, Heath Lowrance

Posted on October 25, 2011 by

Dig Ten Graves is a short story collection. There are eleven of them. The eleventh is a bonus track – not really a part of the collection. It’s a good story though so I’m glad it was included. I think … Continue reading →

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Reviews: Last Deep Breath, Tom Piccirilli and The Readbreast, Jo Nesbo

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

I’ve been off the blog for a while. Events got in the way. I moved from the Isle of Man to England. I also bought a smart phone. The smart phone means I can go on Twitter, Facebook, Internet, check … Continue reading →

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Review: Yellow Medicine, A.N. Smith

Posted on September 1, 2011 by

This is a gritty tale of a corrupt cop in corrupt times. The guy has nothing going for him. I don’t like him. Each move he makes reveals a more squalid side to his character. I read on with a … Continue reading →

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Review: The Bastard Hand, Heath Lowrance

Posted on June 16, 2011 by

This is a seedy, dirty, book with enough bastards to populate a small town – which they do, Cuba Landing. Heath Lowrance gets disconcertedly into the mind of Charles Wesley, the mentally ill narrator, and takes us to some dark … Continue reading →

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Raymond Chandler: A Biography, Tim Hinley

Posted on March 23, 2011 by

This book starts off a little slow. The first chapter is a mini family history before his birth. Then there is a lot of detail about his alcoholic father abandoning the family. Chandler and Mother stay with family in the … Continue reading →

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The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett

Posted on February 5, 2011 by

It’s impossible to read this book without visualising Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade. I gave up trying to see him any other way after the first page. Hammett seems to have described Spade’s face as forming a V about twenty … Continue reading →

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Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett

Posted on December 15, 2010 by

This is the first novel in a book of four. Enjoyed it – but then the man is a master. The arrival of some Leo Malet books will delay my reading of The Dain Curse – next in the book … Continue reading →

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Pulp: A Novel, Charles Bukowski

Posted on March 21, 2010 by

Finished today. It got worse as it went on. Pulp: A Novel , Charles Bukowski

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