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Back and Forth In the Day

Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem

November 15, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Widows is one of my favorite movies from the last few decade, a criminally underrated mismarketed gem of a flick that should have not only got more commercial love but awards love as well. I won’t say what it’s about, you should watch it. Don’t even Google the plot, just watch. It’s excellent. Anyway, there’s a great tracking shot that is not only my favorite scene in the movie but one of my favorite scenes of all-time. Colin Farrell’s nepo baby city council candidate character gets […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Brooklyn, crime, historical fiction, Jonathan Lethem

Jake's CBR15 Review No:157 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Brooklyn, crime, historical fiction, Jonathan Lethem ·
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Book cover of Ride the Pink Horse, showing a pink merry-go-round horse

“And say your mea culpa, which you gradually forgot”

Ride the Pink Horse (1946) by Dorothy B. Hughes

October 28, 2023 by drmllz 4 Comments

Cannonball Read 15 Bingo Square “On the Road”: Three men have travelled from Chicago to Santa Fe in a complicated game of cat and mouse I think that Dorothy B. Hughes’s writing, at its best, possesses a terrible beauty, to borrow a phrase from W.B. Yeats’s “Easter, 1916.” Elsewhere, of course, Yeats wrote that “things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”, a fragment of a phrase that beats at the dark heart of noir fiction, where comforting myths of love, or integrity, or fairness implode […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: CBR15, cbr15bingo, classic noir, crime, criminal POV, Dorothy B. Hughes, drmllz, on the road square

drmllz's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: CBR15, cbr15bingo, classic noir, crime, criminal POV, Dorothy B. Hughes, drmllz, on the road square ·
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“His poor judgment is further evidenced by his continued denial of his obvious guilt.”

Midnight Son by James Dommek Jr.

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

October 12, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Midnight Son – 4 stars An upcoming native Alaskan actor, Teddy Kyle Smith, vanishes into the wilderness after his mother’s death and, attacking the first men who come across him, leaves them for dead. But when he is finally captured, he has a bizarre story to tell – that of encountering the Iñukuns, a mythic lost tribe. An Audible original, this audiobook is executed in an interesting documentary format, incorporating interviews and clips from police interrogations and court testimony alongside narration. The case is not […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Alaska, audiobook, crime, David Grann, James Dommek Jr., Native American, oklahoma, true crime, United States

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:78 · Genres: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Alaska, audiobook, crime, David Grann, James Dommek Jr., Native American, oklahoma, true crime, United States ·
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Doors Should Stay Closed

Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

September 29, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

This book messed with me in a real way. It left me feeling very sad. Impossible to say how without revealing the ending. But the whole book is…well it’s something. A woman whose trauma-informed behavior makes her not understand societal norms. The reader starts with that and slowly unpacks everything. Everything. I’m usually nervous when writers try to write neurodiverse characters. I liked Motherless Brooklyn the second time around but am not a huge fan of how Lethem wrote Lionel Essrog. I’ve never been able to get […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: crime, Ireland, Liz Nugent, New Zealand, Noir, Strange Sally Diamond

Jake's CBR15 Review No:137 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: crime, Ireland, Liz Nugent, New Zealand, Noir, Strange Sally Diamond ·
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Doin’ No Harm

Lowdown Road by Scott Von Doviak

August 29, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR15bingo: edibles. The plot centers around a large shipment of marijuana, which I guess is technically edible though you can use it in things that are actually edible. Admittedly, I’m reaching here but the suggestion on the OP did include “drugs.” Hixploitation (the author’s words, not mine) — like blaxploitation and other specified identity genres — hit a frenzied peak in the 70s. It was the era of the Film Brats and just as they influenced studio Hollywood, the Bs were […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: cbr15bingo, crime, edibles, Evel Knievel, hard case crime, Lowdown Road, Scott Von Doviak, Texas

Jake's CBR15 Review No:114 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: cbr15bingo, crime, edibles, Evel Knievel, hard case crime, Lowdown Road, Scott Von Doviak, Texas ·
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‘No airport was an island either.’

Airport by Arthur Hailey

August 13, 2023 by Pooja 2 Comments

CBR 15 Bingo – Nostalgia: This book is set in the glamorous heyday of air travel (and as I am currently in hour three of a ten hour layover in Munich, I can assure you I am feeling very nostalgic.) Over the course of seven hours, Lincoln Airport must go through a snowstorm, a protest, and the return of an airplane that’s had a hole blasted in its side. I love stories about airports and airplanes. They’re exciting to me because they are emblematic of adventure – […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: 1960s, airport, Arthur Hailey, cbr15bingo, crime, Fiction, Suspense, travel

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: 1960s, airport, Arthur Hailey, cbr15bingo, crime, Fiction, Suspense, travel ·
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