THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS James M. Cain Hard Case Crime (hardcasecrime.com) £16.99 Back in September 2004, Hard Case Crime – then an imprint of American publisher Dorchester – launched with Lawrence Block’s Grifter’s Game. The idea behind the line, as evidenced by the lurid, pulpy (yet beautiful) covers, was to reproduce the feel of those early […]
Read More THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS by James M. CainTHE CHURCH OF SAINTS CYRIL AND METHODIUS RESSLOVA PRAGUE As featured in: HHhH by Laurent Binet Date of visit: 5th September 2012 Price of Adult Admission: Kč75 (≅£2.50) When I started Reader Dad early in 2011, the plan was to stick to the book reviews and leave it at that. Now, a handful of interviews […]
Read More TRAVELOGUE: The Church of Saints Cyril & Methodius (HHhH)THE HUMAN PART Kari Hotakainen Translated by Owen F. Witesman (www.suomitranslation.com) MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com) £14.99 Lieutenant Richard Guérin, the protagonist of Antonin Varenne’s Bed of Nails had a theory of interconnectedness that revolved around a red thread tied around the ankles of people who were linked in some way. It’s not until around three-quarters of […]
Read More THE HUMAN PART by Kari HotakainenName: MYKE COLE Author of: CONTROL POINT (SHADOW OPS 1) (2012) On the web: mykecole.com On Twitter: @MykeCole I’m very pleased to introduce our first guest post here at Reader Dad. Myke Cole, author of Control Point, the first book in the Shadow Ops series, has very kindly written an essay about the origins of […]
Read More GUEST POST: On the Origins of SHADOW OPS by MYKE COLECONTROL POINT (SHADOW OPS: Book One) Myke Cole (mykecole.com) Headline (www.headline.co.uk) £7.99 In the aftermath of the Great Reawakening, the world is a different place. Magic has returned, and people across the globe are turning up Latent, Manifesting in any one of a handful of schools of magic. Those who Manifest in the legal schools […]
Read More CONTROL POINT by Myke ColeALIF THE UNSEEN G. Willow Wilson (www.gwillowwilson.com) Corvus Books (corvus-books.co.uk) £12.99 Released: 1st September 2012 Get your pen and paper, it said. I will tell you the final story. It comes with a warning. “What’s that?” When you hear it, you will become someone else. From time to time I’ll start reading a book and […]
Read More ALIF THE UNSEEN by G. Willow WilsonRUSH OF BLOOD Mark Billingham (www.markbillingham.com) Little, Brown Book Group (www.littlebrown.co.uk) £16.99 Released: 2nd August 2012 Six Brits – three couples – meet at the pool of a Florida Keys resort while on holiday, and become friendly over the course of the two-week holiday. On their last day, a child goes missing – a fourteen-year-old […]
Read More RUSH OF BLOOD by Mark BillinghamCOLD HANDS John J. Niven William Heinemann (http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/…/william-heinemann) £12.99 Released: 2nd August 2012 Donnie Miller has it all: beautiful wife and son, perfect home in the wilds of Saskatchewan and the sort of comfort that comes from having a rich father-in-law who is generous to a fault with his daughter and grandson. It’s a far […]
Read More COLD HANDS by John J. NivenTHE BUFFALO HUNTER Peter Straub (www.peterstraub.net) Cemetery Dance Publications (www.cemeterydance.com) $19.99 Released: Late 2012 From the moment thirty-five-year-old Bobby Bunting lies back on his bed with a paperback Western and a baby’s bottle full of vodka, it’s clear that we’re in the presence of a very odd individual. A Midwesterner living in New York, working […]
Read More THE BUFFALO HUNTER by Peter StraubTHE STRAIGHT RAZOR CURE (LOW TOWN 1) Daniel Polansky (www.danielpolansky.com) Hodder (hodder.co.uk) £7.99 Warden is a drug dealer and hard man on the streets of Low Town. Ex-soldier, ex-lawman, it is only his past that keeps him above suspicion when he stumbles upon the body of a young girl. When a second body is found, […]
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