Cannonball Read 17

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Caught Stealing by Charlie Huston

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I’m just getting this in before the soon-to-be-released Darren Arronofsky movie starring Austin Butler and Zoe Kravitz. The story revolves around Henry Thompson, a former baseball star whose life has sort of drifted since a broken leg ended his playing days. He works at a seedy bar and lives in a seedier apartment in New York City. One day, he agrees to cat-sit for a neighbor and that sends his life spinning out of control. He’s attacked by two Russians at his bar, leaving him […]

Dashiell Hammett’s Twilight

Already Dead by Charlie Huston

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I subscribe to a used book service where you tell the seller a bit about you, and then they send you 1-4 books per month that match your style(s). Since my dark, sad heart loves classic noir, they sent me Charlie Huston’s Already Dead. It’s book one in the Joe Pitt series. Joe Pitt died a long time ago. Sort of. He’s a vampyre (my preferred spelling, by the way) wandering in Manhattan. There’s lots of vampyres in Manhattan. Not only that, but they’ve set up […]

Sigh…Vampires

No Dominion by Charlie Huston

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On Goodreads, there is a reviewer named Kemper (an alias). He has since retired, which is a shame because I love his reviews. He enjoys a lot of the same crime fiction I do. Anyway, Kemper had this tic I once found annoying in that he would write reviews by doing faux interviews with the authors of the books he read. He usually did this when he read something that wasn’t so good. I preferred reading his regular reviews. However, as I’ve written so many […]

Vampire, PI

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I read almost all of Charlie Huston’s catalogue between 2011-2012. I loved the Hank Thompson trilogy and The Shotgun Rule was good as well. I don’t often enjoy fun, trashy Tarantino-esque thrill writers but Huston has more talent than most. I couldn’t put his books down. The ending of the Hank Thompson trilogy stays with me to this day. However, I avoided the Joe Pitt series series for a long time because I don’t like those kinds of monster crossover works. I tried one Jim Butcher book and […]



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