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Sam’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Sam Reaves
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Cold Black Earth
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2015
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Running in the Dark
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2018
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Homicide 69
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2006
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A Long Cold Fall (Cooper MacLeish, #1)
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1994
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Mean Town Blues: A Novel of Crime
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1991
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Fear Will Do It
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Dooley's Back: A Novel of Crime (Otto Penzler Books)
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Bury it Deep
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1993
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Get What's Coming
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1995
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Stalking Horse (Cooper MacLeish Book 5)
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Stalking Horse
Sometimes it takes a while…
Thirty years ago I was a young writer just trying to learn the business. (Now, of course, I’m an old writer still trying to learn the business.) In 1994 Putnam had published my first four novels, a crime series featuring a Chicago taxi driver named Cooper MacLeish. The first book, A Long Cold Fall, was never intended to be a series; I thought I was writing a stand-alone. Read more of this blog post »
Thirty years ago I was a young writer just trying to learn the business. (Now, of course, I’m an old writer still trying to learn the business.) In 1994 Putnam had published my first four novels, a crime series featuring a Chicago taxi driver named Cooper MacLeish. The first book, A Long Cold Fall, was never intended to be a series; I thought I was writing a stand-alone. Read more of this blog post »
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| The territory Joseph Kanon has staked out for his literate and complex thrillers is the couple of decades following the Second World War, when the two principal victors, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, squared off and settled into the Cold War. This c ...more | |
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Yes, this is the Michael Palin of Monty Python fame, moonlighting as a nautical historian. (He is not the only ex-Python to take up history; Terry J0nes authored a history of the fall of Rome from the point of view of the barbarians.) The Erebus was ...more |
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| This is an interesting, even gripping novel; I breezed right through it and was glad I did. But it's also a grim and depressing one. Going by the two cover blurbs ("Brave, funny..." and "So sharp and funny...") you'd expect at least a few laughs alon ...more | |
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I really like Gavin Lyall's Major Maxim series, one of the best military espionage series ever. This is one of his earlier works from 1972, a stand-alone featuring an ex-military intelligence officer working as a private security consultant. James Car ...more |
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| I really liked Jordan Harper's Everybody Knows with its razor-sharp dissection of Los Angeles celebrity culture craziness, and I quickly grabbed this one, his previous novel. Here he takes on a different kind of California crazy-- not the big-money, ...more | |
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| Lori Rader-Day writes sharp, smart novels about people with troubled lives. There's always a mystery at the heart of the story, but the real interest is how her people strive for resolution or redemption. This one is a particularly tangled tale, told ...more | |
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| I discovered Margery Allingham many years ago and have read most of the books several times; my eye fell on this one recently and I realized I hadn't read it in decades and remembered very little about it. Revisiting it passed a few pleasant evenings ...more | |
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| Family dramas are not a genre I'm particularly inclined to, but when a well-read friend told me it was one of her favorite books, I took notice. First published in 1962, the novel has been highly praised, particularly by Jane Smiley, whose A Thousand ...more | |
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| Is the CIA an intelligence agency that gathers valuable information about our nation's enemies, or is it a ruthless paramilitary entity that uses violence to achieve results our government doesn't want to pursue publicly? The answer, of course, is th ...more | |
“They traded one of those looks only two people who have grown up together can trade, long and candid, and Rachel found herself hurting for him.”
― Cold Black Earth
― Cold Black Earth
“everybody was afraid and that the trick was to learn to function with fear.”
― Cold Black Earth
― Cold Black Earth
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| Mystery/Thriller ...: Bouchercon in retrospect | 39 | 139 | Nov 05, 2010 01:53PM | |
| Mystery/Thriller ...: Bouchercon 2012, Day One (Thursday) | 16 | 21 | Oct 08, 2012 08:37PM | |
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Hi Sam. Thanks for friending this mystery & paranormal author. I hope you'll consider adding my books to your to-read list. Great to connect here. I'm looking forward to reading your reviews.Kris
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Magical Alienation: A Samantha Brennan and Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mystery
Hi Sam,Thanks for sending a friend request to this fellow crime writer on Goodreads!
