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article Dancing with Death
Click Here To Purchase Dancing With Death  Author: Reg McKayPublisher: Black and White publishingISBN: 978-1-84502-094-1Reg McKay is used to tackling Glasgow’s meanest streets for he worked as a social worker there for many years. However in 1998 McKay could no longer take the grey-faced men in grey suits anymore and so he left to retire to writing. He is recognized as a widely published investigative journalist who has been a crime columnist for Daily Record, a crime consultant for News of...

(No rating)  8-15-2008    Views: 5975   
article A Dirty Business
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon A Dirty Business Author: Joe HumphreyDakarma Publishing, New York, New YorkISBN: 978-0-9787871-0-3  Are you a crime novel enthusiast?  A Dirty Business is the new debut crime novel written by Joe Humphrey, and a recommended read.Upon recently returning to his home in New York City from the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Kevin Bailey finds himself both broke and with no where to live.  Kevin Bailey has a degree in criminal justice and is...

(No rating)  3-28-2007    Views: 6042   
article Anatomy of Fear
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Anatomy Of Fear Author: Jonathan SantloferISBN:  978-0-06-088197-9 The setting is New York and Terri Russo a detective for the NYPD is called to the scene of a murder where she discovers a sketch of the victim alongside the body.  Russo is aided in her investigation by Nate Rodriguez, the police sketch artist.Nate’s father was an undercover narc for the

(No rating)  4-11-2007    Views: 5400   
article Brother’s Keeper
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Brother’s Keeper Author: Steven OwadISBN: 978-1-894917-59-9Publisher: Rendez Vous CrimeAlberta’s oilsands, are the second largest oil reserves in the world, Saudi Arabia has the largest. This resource, known as bitumen, is encased in the earth in the northern part of the province. Extracting and refining the bitumen is a costly process that requires more money per barrel than pumping, so until recently, bitumen extraction hasn’t been economically viable. But...

(No rating)  11-17-2007    Views: 3131   
article Businessman’s Prison
Author: JB GATESPublisher: Synergy BooksISBN 0-9755922-0-3The following review was contributed by: SHELDON (SHELLY) WAXMAN & click to view Shelly's reviews

(No rating)  2-24-2005    Views: 16893   
article City within a City: A Gangster's Story
Click Here To Purchase City Within A CityAuthor:  Sherry Clark ThomasISBN-10: 1432702912 ISBN-13: 978-1432702915 Joe Thomas was a mean and bad guy. 

(No rating)  8-14-2008    Views: 4230   
article Cut to the Bone
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Cut To The Bone Authors name: Shane Gericke Publisher: Pinnacle BooksISBN: 0-7860-1814-3Shane Gericke is the author behind the crime thriller, Blown Away, which became a national bestseller within just three weeks after hitting the shelves. Now Gericke, a founding member of International Thriller Writers Inc and also a member of the Mystery Writers of America amongst his many other literary achievements, has published his next novel about a serial killer and...

(No rating)  5-23-2007    Views: 6845   
article Every Secret Crime
  Click Here To Purchase Every Secret CrimeAuthor: Doug M. CummingsPublisher: GALE CENGAGE Learning ISBN 13: 978-1-59414-665-7ISBN 10: 1-59414-665-9 

(No rating)  10-3-2008    Views: 4779   
article From Crime to Crime (Mind-boggling Tales of Mystery And Murder)
Click Here To Purchase From Crime to Crime (Mind-boggling Tales of Mystery And Murder) Author: Dennis Palumbo ISBN: 978-1-931290-60-9Publisher: Tallfellow Press  Dennis Palumbo is the author of City Wars and has had short fiction pieces appearing in various publ

(No rating)  5-25-2008    Views: 4947   
article Lost Echoes
Author: Joe R. LansdaleISBN: 978-0-307-27544-8  Lost Echoes is a story about a man named Harry Wilkes, who at the tender age of six came down with the mumps and developed a severe ear infection which affected his brain.  Harry’s mind would fill with images of past crimes and he could see the events taking place as well as see the faces of the people involved in the crimes.  Harry eventually develops a taste for alcohol as it helps him to suppress the images as well as the sounds contained...

(No rating)  4-11-2007    Views: 7070   
article Piranhas on the Loose
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Piranhas on the Loose Authors: Shelly Waxman and James Nathan PostPublishers: iUniverse Inc.Genre: Crime/legal thriller series. ISBN: 0595278183 The following review was contributed by:

(No rating)  2-24-2005    Views: 16293   
article Snapping the String
Click Here To Purchase Snapping The String        Author: Robert Paul BlumensteinISBN-10: 1432715208ISBN-13: 978-1432715205In Snapping the String, Robert Paul Blumenstein has written a brilliant book.  He tells the story of Peyton Costello, an unlucky soul who found himself at the wron

(No rating)  8-15-2008    Views: 2374   
article The Black Messiah Murders
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Black Messiah Murders  Authors: Shelly Waxman and James Nathan PostPublishers: iUniverse, Inc.ISBN: 0595287670Genre: crime/thriller/noir

(No rating)  1-6-2005    Views: 21050   
article The Dark Tide
Click Here To Purchase The Dark Tide Author: Andrew GrossISBN: 978-0-06-114342-7

(No rating)  3-27-2008    Views: 5273   
article The Unnatural Inquirer
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Unnatural InquirerAuthor: Simon R. GreeenISBN: 0441015581  In The Unnatural Inquirer Simon R. Green's popular character John Taylor is back for more butt kicking, sarcastic humor, and a nice bit of paranormal detective work. For those unfamiliar with Green's wry genre mixing he is the master of mixing the noir detective novel, with a fantastical paranormal setting, creating something fresh and new. John Taylor is the classic Green protagonist; a wise...

(No rating)  2-4-2008    Views: 3032   
article Under A Cloud
Author: Eliot SefrinISBN: 0-595-37214-7The following review was contributed by:  Sue Vogan: To read more of Sue's reviews Click Here"Even now, all those hours later, Holland couldn't get it out of his mind, how utterly dark it had been down there in that cellar. He was blind, for all intents and purposes, when that shadow rushed him from out of nowhere. Never knew who or what it was. Never saw it until it was all was all over him." Matt Holland, a 13-year seasoned detective in New...

(No rating)  4-7-2006    Views: 5813   
article Writing Crime New York Style
Author: Joseph L. Giacalone,ISBN 1414053517  Genre: True crime/literaryThe following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen & CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's ReviewsMany books have been written attempting to explain lawand police procedure for crime writers; few arewritten by real cops. This book, written by an 11-yearveteran of the NYPD, looks at real police proceduresin the Big Apple.It gives the street addresses, coverage areas andmajor landmarks for all the precincts in the fiveboroughs....

(No rating)  11-30-2004    Views: 7966   

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