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Two and a half cigarette men!

The Sundown Motel by Simone St. James

April 25, 2025 by Singsonggirl Leave a Comment

I saw this recommended on reddit, bought it on audible and literally the next day zirza panned it on here. Sadly, zirza was right, it’s not great. A cross between a mystery and a ghost story, The Sundown Motel tells the story of nefarious things happening in the small town of Fell, NY, where Viv Delaney disappears after her night shift at the titular motel in the 80s, while her niece Carly investigates the case in 2017. The POV switches between these two women and […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Horror Tagged With: Americana, crime, Ghost Stories, Simone St. James

Singsonggirl's CBR17 Review No:4 · Genres: Audiobooks, Horror · Tags: Americana, crime, Ghost Stories, Simone St. James ·
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The face of the cyborg and detective

Model Five Murder: a sci-fi noir by Tan Juan Gee

April 25, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When one is like me and in the position of having emails with online reader links attached, you can read a lot of different things. Most of which you probably asked for, but once in a while you get one that was just free-sent. Or you forgot you requested it. Model Five Murder: a sci-fi noir by Tan Juan Gee was one of those either free-sent or I forgot I requested.  As said, I read it via an online reader copy. And I can read […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: crime, sci-fi noir, Tan Juan Gee

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:212 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: crime, sci-fi noir, Tan Juan Gee ·
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Unfinished Business

How the Dead Speak (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan #11) by Val McDermid

April 10, 2025 by Zirza Leave a Comment

An old convent is bought by a property development company. Soon, work begins on the grounds, but it’s not long before the skeletal remains of forty young women are discovered. The bones are old – years, sometimes decades – but it begs the question: what, exactly, happened at the convent, where girls with nowhere to go were taken in? Why were the secretly buried, and why did their families receive no word of their passing? The ReMIT team, specialising in serious crime, investigates, though why […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Carol Jordan, Catholic church, crime, How the Dead Speak, Tony Hill, Tony Hill & Carol Jordan series, UK, Val McDermid

Zirza's CBR17 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Carol Jordan, Catholic church, crime, How the Dead Speak, Tony Hill, Tony Hill & Carol Jordan series, UK, Val McDermid ·
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Nightmares of the Fourth Reich

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami

March 31, 2025 by Jake Leave a Comment

Without a doubt, the best thing I’ve read so far this year. Quarter of the way through and not much comes close. As I’ve said many times, I don’t like dystopias that lean too hard into the dystopic-aspect. I like them with the axis of earth just tilted slightly; looking at reality through a cracked mirror. In other words, take scary parts of society and bend them a little to suit your story. Laila Lalami more than delivers that here. What’s frightening about The Dream Hotel is […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: #Science Fiction, crime, Dreams, dystopia, Laila Lalami, Speculative Fiction, The Dream Hotel

Jake's CBR17 Review No:12 · Genres: Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: #Science Fiction, crime, Dreams, dystopia, Laila Lalami, Speculative Fiction, The Dream Hotel ·
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Amigos

Friends Helping Friends by Patrick Hoffman

March 24, 2025 by Jake Leave a Comment

My mother recently asked me what “noir” means in the context in which I often use it: reading and watching. I tried to explain to her that noir isn’t the same as classic mystery or hardboiled in that there’s an event that happens that permanently changes the behaviors of all persons, drawing them into difficult circumstances. But that felt like a weak definition to me. So I’ll roll with Megan Abbott’s classic definition in this interview with LitHub… In noir, everyone is fallen, and right […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: california, crime, Friends Helping Friends, Noir, Patrick Hoffman

Jake's CBR17 Review No:10 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: california, crime, Friends Helping Friends, Noir, Patrick Hoffman ·
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I Love Swiss Cheese But Not As a Plot Device

The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf

March 22, 2025 by Zirza 1 Comment

True Crime writer Wylie’s life is a mess: she’s divorced, she’s having a fight with her teenage son, and there’s a book that needs finishing, so she does what any sane person would do: rent the house where the crime she’s writing about took place (the place has been uninhabited for twenty years, but is somehow still livable, unvandalised, and connected to the grid) so she can finish her novel. Of course, a snow storm rears its head, cutting off the electricity. Of course, she […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: crime, Heather Gudenkauf, overnight guest, thriller

Zirza's CBR17 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: crime, Heather Gudenkauf, overnight guest, thriller ·
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