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You Will Never Be Found by Tove Alsterdal

Posted on January 17, 2023 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

In a way very similar to the first book in this series, I enjoyed the underlying mystery but not the relationship aspects of the lead character; the background ...

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A Man by Keiichirō Hirano

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

It all makes for a rather melancholy and -- in its complicated investigations and its details -- oddly wending-all-over-the-place novel, but also an interesting...

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A Long Way Off by Pascal Garnier

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Kevin Holtsberry / 1 Comment

What an odd little book. Bills itself as noir but veers close to black comedy. It is French so perhaps I should have expected weird … :-)

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The Eskimo Solution by Pascal Garnier

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

I usually stray away from noir-themed books due to their very nature, but this book intrigued me based on the plot. Like all noir novels, this is a bleak and de...

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Nickel Plated by Aric Davis

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

One of those experiments that works well for some, not at all for others, but can be appreciated by many. You may or may not buy the premise, but the unique st...

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The Panda Theory by Pascal Garnier

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 1 Comment

An interesting literary novella that bills itself as noir but veers close to black comedy. Well done characters and setting but something of an awkward shift to...

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