A very noirish novel, set in what was then (and still is) a very plausible near future when it was published in 2010 but is now more than ten years in the past. More than half centered on the cops, with some large mob-type figures lurking and looming. There's some good turns of phrase here, and I'll never think of the Muppets' "Mana Mana" song quite the same way again.
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The Breath of the Gods by Simon Winchester
I've read a few other of Winchester's books about natural (mostly geological) things in the past, and I have enough brainspace ded...
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A beautiful novel about life as a mobster (in 1940s Tampa) and all the contradictions and complications of it. Lehane clearly has an ear f...
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This is a deeply romantic series of adventures in the pursuit of solving a mystery. There are references to Doyle, it's possible the aut...
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Wrapped the last couple-hundred pages of this after gaming tonight. It started a little slowly, a little dryly, but it got moving the last...

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