Book review: ‘She Murdered Me With Science’ 
Noel Glass is a disgraced scientist whose experiments with microwaves went horribly awry and killed six of his colleagues, including the woman he loved. Disgraced and banished from the scientific community, Glass, 15 years later, is self-employed in Chicago as a private detective; a rather unique gumshoe in that he uses his genius intellect to help the police with difficult cases.
Book review: ‘Quarry in the Middle’ revisits a classic Kurosawa plot
Quarry waste no time in playing both sides against the middle, at the same dealing with the hired gun.
Book review: ‘I-5′ reverses the road novel trope
Far from being any kind of symbol of optimistic freedom or new beginnings, Brenner’s interstate highway thrums with cannibal transport, the bodies of the poor being shuttled for consumption in a myriad of forms by those who can afford to buy them.
Book review: Phillips’ ‘The Jook’ a down-and-dirty crime fiction marvel
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Gary Phillips is known by crime fiction aficionados as a master the form, and reading The Jook it’s easy to see why. The dialogue crackles, the tone’s pitch-perfect, and the prose rolls along with the kind of effortless cool that only comes with monstrous effort, not to mention an equal portion of talent.
Book review: Dent’s ‘Honey in His Mouth’ a sweet read
Instead of a noble British adventurer coming to the aid of a small foreign republic, as happens in Hope’s 1894 novel, we are given a low-life hustler about to become the lynch pin to a million dollar scheme far beyond his meager imagination to grasp. The book works because Dent’s ability to capture the essence of his characters is simply brilliant.
Book review: Lansdale’s ‘Vanilla Ride’ offers action, humor
Reading one of Joe R. Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard East Texas crime novels always brings tears to my eyes. I’m not crying. I’m laughing so hard that I’m near busting a gut. He’s just that funny, that rednecked, and that insanely offensive in everything he puts on the page.
Book review: Tom Piccirilli’s The Coldest Mile features crafty, mean grandpa.
Chase is in his mid to late 20s, a widower, and wants to figure out what’s left in his life of family. His father committed suicide and his mother was murdered while she was pregnant, possibly by the same grandfather that raised him. He’s a wheelman, talented behind the wheel of a getaway car, kind of like Jason Statham in the Transporter movies.
Book review: Classic pulp hero battles occult, supernatural threats
The Rook battles other-worldly foes like vampires, immortal Chinese madmen and zombies.
