Carl Hiaasen Author/Book Review
Carl Hiaasen: Author And Satirist Reviewed
Carl Hiaasen, writer and journalist, Florida born and bred, has a sense of the absurd and a nose for corruption that feed into some of the funniest books you can find. He's a fine novelist with a great ability to pen a farce and a knack of creating memorable characters. Hiaasen doesn't do understated. His villains are bloated ex-Mafia property developers or millionaire TV evangelists who drink and fornicate, The heavies are rabid and drug-crazed, but the heroes are everyday people rising to ...

The Shadow Unmasks + The Yellow Band: A Pulp Book Review!
The 1930s Crimefighter in Two of His Most Revealing Adventures!
The Shadow, that mysterious crime-fighter from the 1930s pulps, is back in regular publication, with a series of books from Nostalgia Ventures. Each volume contains two stories of the Master Avenger, as well as articles and other extras. This one, No. 15 in the series, contains the stories ''The Shadow Unmasks'' and ''The Yellow Band.''

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Book reviews of crime fiction from around the world are provided along with recommended books and a few author interviews. Crime fiction from or about Australia, Norway, Sweden, China, USA, Mexico, Spain, Italy, France, England, Germany and more. Photo at the left by the lens author.

Love Crime Fiction?
Then Let Me Recommend These Two Fine Authors
Lee Child and Adrian McKinty have an honored place on my list of great crime fiction authors. Though Lee Child is the better known of the two, I put them both at the top of the heap in their shared fiction genre of "Crime Fiction". And What would that genre be? Crime Fiction; Suspense? Loners who keep getting into trouble fiction? Macho men fiction? These two authors, McKinty and Child, have each created a character that I find remarkable. McKinty's Michael Forsythe and Child's Jack Reacher...

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What's a Little Murder Among Friends?
What's a Little Murder Among Friends? A group devoted to crime fiction, including international crime fiction (no matter which country you are reading this from). Feel free to add your own blog to the link lists. Unrelated blogs or links will be deleted. Photo by the author.