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May-July Leftovers

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

City of Dreams by Don Winslow

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright

Under Color of Law by Aaron Philip Clark

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

The Last Quarry by Max Allan Collins

Tripwire by Jack Reacher

Baby Moll by John Farris

Only the Dead Know Brooklyn by Thomas Boyle

The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess by Evan Drellich

X by Davey Davis

Our Last Season: A Writer, A Fan, A Friendship by Harvey Araton

The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín

Hard Rain by Samantha Jayne Allen

The Boys From Biloxi by John Grisham

Ex Machina Book Four by Brian K. Vaughan

Jacket Weather by Mike DeCapite

Straight Cut by Madison Smartt Bell

The Crust on Its Uppers by Derek Raymond

That Kind of Danger by Donna Masini

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

Spenser Confidential by Ace Atkins

Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead

Weyward by Emilia Hart

The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon, I Mean Noel by Ellen Raskin

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

July 30, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

I usually do these at the end of the month but then I went through a big reading slump March-May. And then I roared back but realized I was behind. So apologies for this being so long. There Will Be Fire **** A good, readable text on a moment in history I knew little about. Even after reading Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing, I still had a lot of problem keeping track of all the socio-political dynamics so it’s good that Rory Carroll makes it accessible […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #biography, #IRA, #Science Fiction, 1970s, Aaron Philip Clark, abortion, Ace Atkins, an absolutely remarkable thing, Annie McIntyre, Baby Moll, Baseball, basketball, bdsm, Biblical times, Boston, Brian K. Vaughan, Brooklyn, cheating, City of Dreams, climate change, Colm Toibin, Colson Whitehead, crime, Crook Manifesto, Davey Davis, Derek Raymond, don winslow, Donna Masini, Ellen Raskin, Emilia Hart, europe, Evan Drellich, Ex Machina Book Four, Florida, friendship, gambling, grady hendrix, Graphic Novel, hank green, hard case crime, Hard Rain, harlem, Harvey Araton, historical fiction, hitman, Hollywood, Houston Astros, Jack Reacher, Jacket Weather, Jake Bernstein, jennifer wright, Jesus Christ, John Farris, John Grisham, Jonathan Lethem, LAPD, legal fiction, LGBTQIA, los angeles, Madame Restell, Madison Smartt Bell, magic realism, Margaret Thatcher, Mary, Max Allan Collins, Mike DeCapite, mississippi, Money Laundering, Motherless Brooklyn, movies, music, mystery, New York City, New York Knicks, Northern Ireland, Only the Dead Know Brooklyn, Our Last Season, Panama Papers, Peter Swanson, poetry, police, Quarry, Ray Carney, Rory Carroll, Samantha Jayne Allen, Spenser, Spenser Confidential, sports, Straight Cut, Texas, That Kind of Danger, The Boys From Biloxi, the carls, The Crust on Its Uppers, The Kind Worth Killing, The Last Quarry, The Laundromat, the Mysterious Disappearance of Leon I mean Noel, the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires, the testament of mary, The Troubles, There Will Be Fire, Thomas Boyle, thriller, Trevor Finnegan, Tripwire, true crime, Under Color of Law, United Kingdom, Weyward, Winning Fixes Everything, witches, X

Jake's CBR15 Review No:103 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #biography, #IRA, #Science Fiction, 1970s, Aaron Philip Clark, abortion, Ace Atkins, an absolutely remarkable thing, Annie McIntyre, Baby Moll, Baseball, basketball, bdsm, Biblical times, Boston, Brian K. Vaughan, Brooklyn, cheating, City of Dreams, climate change, Colm Toibin, Colson Whitehead, crime, Crook Manifesto, Davey Davis, Derek Raymond, don winslow, Donna Masini, Ellen Raskin, Emilia Hart, europe, Evan Drellich, Ex Machina Book Four, Florida, friendship, gambling, grady hendrix, Graphic Novel, hank green, hard case crime, Hard Rain, harlem, Harvey Araton, historical fiction, hitman, Hollywood, Houston Astros, Jack Reacher, Jacket Weather, Jake Bernstein, jennifer wright, Jesus Christ, John Farris, John Grisham, Jonathan Lethem, LAPD, legal fiction, LGBTQIA, los angeles, Madame Restell, Madison Smartt Bell, magic realism, Margaret Thatcher, Mary, Max Allan Collins, Mike DeCapite, mississippi, Money Laundering, Motherless Brooklyn, movies, music, mystery, New York City, New York Knicks, Northern Ireland, Only the Dead Know Brooklyn, Our Last Season, Panama Papers, Peter Swanson, poetry, police, Quarry, Ray Carney, Rory Carroll, Samantha Jayne Allen, Spenser, Spenser Confidential, sports, Straight Cut, Texas, That Kind of Danger, The Boys From Biloxi, the carls, The Crust on Its Uppers, The Kind Worth Killing, The Last Quarry, The Laundromat, the Mysterious Disappearance of Leon I mean Noel, the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires, the testament of mary, The Troubles, There Will Be Fire, Thomas Boyle, thriller, Trevor Finnegan, Tripwire, true crime, Under Color of Law, United Kingdom, Weyward, Winning Fixes Everything, witches, X ·
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War Without End

The Border by Don Winslow

January 28, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Someone I follow on Instagram did a “What are you reading this weekend?” post. I responded with this book. The person replied: “I’ve never read Don Winslow but I’ve heard good things.” Hmm. On the one hand, Winslow is one of my favorite, reliable writers. He churns out some incredible crime fiction, including epic historical crime fiction that integrates real events into the narrative. I’m reading what he’s writing. On the other hand, Winslow’s art is hard to separate from the artist, especially when he […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: art Keller, crime fiction, don winslow, Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, mexico, power of the dog trilogy, The Border, United States, War on drugs, Washington DC

Jake's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: art Keller, crime fiction, don winslow, Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, mexico, power of the dog trilogy, The Border, United States, War on drugs, Washington DC ·
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Narcos

The Cartel by Don Winslow

June 11, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Years ago, I read Robert Andrew Powell’s This Love Is Not For Cowards. Powell, a US journalist moved to Juarez, Mexico at the time when it was the most dangerous metropolitan area on earth. He did it to follow the local football (soccer) team, learn about its fan culture and what it meant to be so devout to a team while existing in a war zone. A scene from that book has stuck with me almost ten years since I read it. Powell reports on a shooting […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Arthur Keller, crime, don winslow, mexico, Sinaloa, the cartel

Jake's CBR14 Review No:99 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Arthur Keller, crime, don winslow, mexico, Sinaloa, the cartel ·
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Longs and Shorts

The Big Book of Reel Murders by Ed. Otto Penzler

My Head! My Head! by Robert Graves

The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

The Twits by Roald Dahl

Heart by Jade Anouka

Hand of Oberon by Roger Zelazny

The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes

The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch

The Ophelia Network by Mur Lafferty

Deep Hole by Don Winslow

Legal Immigrant by Alan Cumming

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder

The Cube by Adam Rapp

Endgame by Samuel Beckett

Pale Sister by Colm Toibin

Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer

June 8, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Big Book of Reel Murders – Edited by Otto Penzler – 4/5 The concept of this collection is still mostly pulpy stories (though with some other older stories and more contemporary stories not really pulpy) that were made into films. It should really be called “Reel Crimes” as not every story involves a murder, but the concept mostly works. It ends up being a little frayed throughout as apparently it’s just much easier to get some rights to stories than others, so like the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Adam Rapp, Alan Cumming, Chester Himes, Colm Toibin, don winslow, Ed. Otto Penzler, Eudora Welty, Iris Murdoch, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jade Anouka, Mur Lafferty, Roald Dahl, robert graves, roger zelazny, samuel beckett, Thornton WIlder

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:267 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Adam Rapp, Alan Cumming, Chester Himes, Colm Toibin, don winslow, Ed. Otto Penzler, Eudora Welty, Iris Murdoch, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jade Anouka, Mur Lafferty, Roald Dahl, robert graves, roger zelazny, samuel beckett, Thornton WIlder ·
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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 […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: City on Fire, crime, don winslow, historical fiction, Mob, Providence, Rhode Island

Jake's CBR14 Review No:58 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: City on Fire, crime, don winslow, historical fiction, Mob, Providence, Rhode Island ·
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The Hollow and Lord Edgware Dies + Audible Originals

The Hollow by Agatha Christie

Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie

See How they Run by Rachel Howzell hall

Stories of the Stalked by Lily Baldwin

Free Billy by Don Winslow

Approval Junkie by Faith Salie

Out of Bounds by Chris Ballard

The Dogs of Venice by Stephen Rowley

Island Nation by Peter Heller

Fragments of a Young Conquistador by Lincoln Michel

Song of the Northwoods by Jessica Huang

April 21, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Hollow – 4/5 Stars This is one of the mid-career Poirot novels, and it’s one of the ones where Poirot begins to revise and critique the ways in which crimes are investigated. We begin with a group of people on an estate swooning and hand-wringing about their wonderful, innocent, and sad friend Gerda, who seems to be married to someone who doesn’t love her. This is one of those Christie novels that takes place on a country estate, like several others, and like others, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: agatha christie, Chris Ballard, don winslow, Faith Salie, Jessica Huang, Lily Baldwin, Lincoln Michel, Peter Heller, rachel howzell hall, Stephen Rowley

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:175 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: agatha christie, Chris Ballard, don winslow, Faith Salie, Jessica Huang, Lily Baldwin, Lincoln Michel, Peter Heller, rachel howzell hall, Stephen Rowley ·
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