“There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.” —Anthony Burgess... Read More

Sometimes it’s impossible to find crime fiction packed with plenty of genital mutilation child murder pedophilia incest necrophilia and splattered grey matter. "Punishment and... Read More

David Boie no relation to the Thin White Duke plays the questioning straight-man in a multi-subject dialogue with a long-dead pet Thompson. The dog as in the case of the British... Read More

What greater personal crime can there be than to rob a child for life his kind and loving inborn nature? A huge proportion of mental illness has a very clear-cut cause and a... Read More

‘The answers are a mystery. It’s in the searching that we even begin to recognize the questions.’ "Ethereal Madness" embraces one of the most dangerous and excruciating... Read More

1969 a Jewish honor student in the Bronx is a school newspaper editor the son of Holocaust survivors and the newest member of a Puerto Rican extortion gang. A strong inciting... Read More

“’…things tend to get weird when the weather gets hot like this.’” “‘A wife or a kid might get hit instead of yelled at a barroom argument turns into a stabbing... Read More

The Sorcerer’s Song and The Cat’s Meow is an author’s triumph and a reader’s delight. Filled with creative energy intelligence and imagination A.A. Roberts’ novel... Read More

Forget it Jake — it’s Chinatown. —Robert Towne Chinatown screenplay 1973 Not far into Eric Wilder’s New Orleans crime and voodoo novel "Big Easy" the underlying... Read More

Michael doesn’t consider himself to be a religious man but he finds himself full of questions about God. In search of a spiritual mentor he looks for answers about some... Read More

That’s great it starts with an earthquake / birds and snakes an aeroplane / and Lenny Bruce is not afraid. —REM - It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)... Read More

In 1918 the czar of Russia his wife and their five children were gunned down in a basement room of an old country estate where they were being held in exile. Yet even today the... Read More