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Richard Price writes immaculate crime novels. He set his lengthy novel Clockers in one square mile of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where a cop can…
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Tim Johnston’s suspenseful novel, Descent, kept me up late. Then, I reached for it first thing the next morning.Caitlin Courtland, 18, disappears in the…
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Meet Jim Stegner: mid-40s, a fly-fisherman, painter and killer.He is the masculine protagonist in Peter Heller’s new novel, The Painter. The opening line…
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Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle introduced readers to Jimmy Rabbitte in 1987 in his beloved book about the finest soul band in Dublin, The Commitments.The…
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The title of Rhidian Brook's new novel, The Aftermath, refers to the years immediately following World War II.This particular story begins in September…
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Alice McDermott's new novel, Someone, focuses on an Irish Catholic family living in Brooklyn. Gabe and Marie are siblings born several years apart. Gabe…
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Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence by David Samuel Levinson is set in a sleepy university town a couple hours outside of New York City. The novel has a…