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Back in the Future

The Next Time I Die by Jason Starr

June 7, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

I received an advance reader copy of this novel from the folks at Hard Case Crime in exchange for an honest review. Jason Starr’s male characters want you to know that they’re good guys. Really, they are. They might do a couple of not so nice things, like murder and thievery. But really, they’re good guys. They just happen to be in bad circumstances. It’s not they’re fault. Ok, maybe it is a little. But still, they’re good…hey, wait, where are you going? Starr wasn’t […]

Really, LA County Library, I’m still reeeeeeeading it!

Lush Life by Richard Price

June 1, 2022 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

OK, not so sure why this one hit me the way it did. But I always really, really try to finish any book I start. And the LA County library system has, about a year ago, stopped charging overdue fees. So I got a few “Hey, book is due! Just saying!” e-mails. (Bear in mind you automatically get 3 3-week check-outs, so 9 weeks.) But yesterday, I actually got a message that said, “Hey, if you lost it, just fess up and pay for the […]

The Books of Greenwich Village

Chin: The Life and Crimes of Mob Boss Chin Gigante by Larry McShane

69 Barrow Street/Strange Embrace by Lawrence Block

The Pope of Greenwich Village by Vincent Patrick

May 11, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Unintentionally so, I read three consecutive books set in Greenwich Village (well, I guess technically three out of four as one of the books is a two-for-one and the second story isn’t set in the Village). I decided to cobble together one review of the stories since they shared this similarity… Chin *** When I’d first heard of Chin Gigante, I was more fascinated with the idea that the mob had a thriving operation in Greenwich Village, an area I’ve always associated with Bohemians and the […]

The Hands of Providence

City on Fire by Don Winslow

April 29, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

I kinda knew what to expect with this Don Winslow novel going in and yet, I still wound up having a good time. Winslow is famous for taking historical crime events and melding them into fictional tales. He did it with the history of the West Coast mob in The Winter of Frankie Machine, one of my favorite crime reads of the last few years. Here he draws inspiration from the Boston-Providence mob and their wars of the 90s post-Patriarca. Oh and he decided to tell […]

“He really does have very nice biscuits.”

Finlay Donovan Knockes 'Em Dead (Finlay Donovan, #2) by Elle Cosimano

April 27, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

I love this series. I’m so happy there will be at least two more books full of wacky hijinks, dead body disposal, panicking over money, BFF frandship moments between Finlay and Vero, meta commentary, and I’m sure stuff I can’t even predict because this series is chaos. Beautiful chaos. Finlay Donovan, romantic suspense and crime author, keeps getting herself into these situations involving real life crime. It’s been several months since the first book, and it seems this time around, someone has taken a hit […]

Hopefully the last one of these I three-star for a while.

A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15) by Louise Penny

April 26, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Not too much to say about this one. Not one of my favorites of this series. Parts of it I really liked, and parts of it I really did not. It’s been over a month now, and I’ve read 1,000 books since then, so I’m really not remembering specifics here. I remember there was a missing woman, and that plotline was interesting. I wished I was more interested in the plotline where Gamache comes back to be the head of the homicide department, a move […]

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