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The Locked Room by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö

November 20, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

I don’t know that the Martin Beck series can possibly be better than The Locked Room. It hits every critical talking point the writing staff have tried to address in previous tales and it becomes something else entirely. It’s almost as if this book is writing through the reader rather than to them. Some series don’t need to be read in sequential order. They may be even better if you don’t do that. I started the Lew Archer series out of order by accident and it’s my […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, Martin Beck, mystery, Stockholm, Sweden, the locked room

Jake's CBR11 Review No:122 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, Martin Beck, mystery, Stockholm, Sweden, the locked room ·
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Your Enemies Closer

Known to Evil by Walter Mosley

November 18, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

Walter Mosley is such a versatile writer. While most famous for his Easy Rawlins mystery series, he’s worked in just about every genre one can think of: noir, hardboiled, scifi, fictional bio. The guy can do it all. The Leonid McGill series is the first series of his I’ve ventured from Easy Rawlins in his oeuvre. And it’s like they were written by two different people. Mosley got his writing start in the 80s. His books would get progressively better. As much as I enjoy Devil […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Known to Evil, Leonid McGill, mystery, New York City, walter mosley

Jake's CBR11 Review No:121 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Known to Evil, Leonid McGill, mystery, New York City, walter mosley ·
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Thrills and Chills

The Woman In The Window by A.J. Finn

November 16, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

In the year since it’s been out, The Woman in the Window has been more noted for the drama of its author than the success of the book itself, thanks in large part to Ian Parker’s excellent New Yorker piece on Dan Mallory, aka “AJ Finn.” Reading it made me never want to pick up the book despite the breathless hype surrounding it. While i occasionally indulge in the Gillian Flynn thriller, I prefer more of a noir with this type of book, so I assumed this was of […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: agoraphobia, aj finn, mystery, Suspense, The Woman in the Window, thriller

Jake's CBR11 Review No:120 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: agoraphobia, aj finn, mystery, Suspense, The Woman in the Window, thriller ·
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La Famiglia

Mafia Dynasty by John Davis

November 15, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

Since watching The Irishman, I’ve had a yen for Mafia crime stories. I’ve always wanted to know more about the Gambino family since they were the most powerful of the five families during the time the mob ran everything. So I picked this lauded work up. It gave me everything I need in the best way possible: being detailed without being tedious. It covers the families coming over from Italy and Sicily, how what we know to be the “mafia” came into existence and how the […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Carlo Gambino, Gambino Family, John Davis, John Gotti, mafia, Mafia Dynasty, New York City, organized crime, Paul Castellano, true crime

Jake's CBR11 Review No:119 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Carlo Gambino, Gambino Family, John Davis, John Gotti, mafia, Mafia Dynasty, New York City, organized crime, Paul Castellano, true crime ·
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Portrait of the Gangster as a Man

The Mad Ones: Crazy Joey Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld by Tom Folsm

November 7, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

As I get older, I try to take myself, and my reading tastes, less seriously. There was a time where I fancied myself a Very Important Book Reviewer that would choke the life out of anything I read in order to critique it with skill. It’s silly, at least from my perspective. I love reading and I love writing reviews but they’re just that: reviews. Chronicling the things I read, if I liked them or not, and if I would recommend them. No more, no […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History Tagged With: Joey Gallo, mafia, New York City, The Mad Ones, Tom Folsom, true crime

Jake's CBR11 Review No:118 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History · Tags: Joey Gallo, mafia, New York City, The Mad Ones, Tom Folsom, true crime ·
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Tales of the Past

Walk A Black Wind by Michael Collins/Dennis Lynds

November 5, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

Lucked out that I finished this one on the last day of my Kindle Unlimited subscription as it’s the only one in the Dan Fortune series my local library doesn’t have. One of the best of the four I’ve read so far, maybe my favorite after Act of Fear. Michael Collins/Dennis Lynds takes the story out of New York City, or at least large parts of it, to investigate corruption in an upstate New York town. I always love a good tale of municipal corruption and there’s […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Dan Fortune, Dennis Lynds, Michael Collins, mystery, Walk a Black Wind

Jake's CBR11 Review No:117 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Dan Fortune, Dennis Lynds, Michael Collins, mystery, Walk a Black Wind ·
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