CIRCLE CITY SHAKEDOWN (A Phillip Chandler Mystery) By Bill Craig Whiz Bang LLC 274 pgs Bill Craig can knock out a half dozen crime thrillers faster than most established writers can do one. The amazement is, they are all damn good books. With “Circle City Shakedown,” first released in 2014,
CIRCLING THE RUNWAY A Jake Diamond Mystery By J.L. Abramo Down & Books 242 pgs We generally do not enjoy books wherein the writer moves back and forth between first and third person narratives. Most of the time these shifts are jarring in that the reader, safely ensconced in the
BARBARIANS ON BIKES Bikers & Motorcycle Gangs in Men’s Pulp Adventure Magazines Edited by Robert Deis & Wyatt Doyle A New Texture Book 116 pgs Even since appearing on the pulp scene a few years ago, Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle have done a truly wonderful job of educating the
SINGULARITY Rise of the Posthumans Edited by Jaime Ramos & Wayne Carey Pro Se Press 164 pgs. Shared world anthologies are always fascinating and at the same time a really challenge to pull off properly. In this wonderful book from Pro Se Press, editors Jaime Ramos and Wayne Carey have
CRIMSON SHORE A Pendergast Novel By Preston & Child Grand Central Publishing 370 pages Whenever people ask us what is the best New Pulp Fiction being published today, we’ll invariably point them to the Agent Pendergast novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. In the same way Clive Cussler’s Dirk
FIGHT CARD – SHERLOCK HOLMES A CONGRESSION OF PALLBEARERS By Andrew Salmon Fight Card 133 pgs This is the final entry in the Fight Card Sherlock Holmes trilogy as written by Canadian pulpster, Andrew Salmon. No stranger to Holmes and Watson, Salmon’s stories of the Great Detective have earned him
SHERLOCK HOLMES – DOMINO LADY Edited by Joe Gentile Moonstone Press 120 pages Normally we don’t care for “hybrid” publications. By that we refer to books that have comics strips and prose stories mixed together between two covers; neither a full out graphic novel or a traditional prose anthology. And
TALES FROM THE FLIP-SIDE The Adventures of Big Daddy Cool & The Bombshell Kittens By John Pyka Pros Se Press 169 pages When our colleague and fellow reviewer, Tommy Hancock, handed us a copy of this book and said, “It has everything from Nazis vampires to flying cars!” We knew
THE QUEEN’S MARKSMAN By Theresa M. Moore Antellus Books (www.antellus.com) 285 pages In 1878, young Robert St. John, a descendant of the fabled Earl of Loxley, aka Robin Hood, joins the army to fight in Afghanistan. On the journey east via the Orient Express with the new recruits, he encounters
LOOKING AT THE WORLD WITH BROKEN GLASS IN MY EYE By Mark Justice Graveside Books 304 pages A few reviews earlier we talked about book titled “No Rest for the Dead.” This particular review should be offered under the heading of, “A Voice From Beyond.” It’s pretty easy to rift
3 The Hard Way By Gary Phillips Down & Out Books 295 pages First before digging into this book’s trio of excellent pulp yarns, we want to tip our fedora to Down & Out Books. A fairly new publishing house, the quality of their recent titles has been excellent and
A HANDFUL OF HELL Classic War & Adventure Stories By Robert F. Dorr New Texture Books 323 pages At the height of the classic pulp era of the 1930s and 40s, variety was the name of the game as magazine racks were inundated with titles covering every conceivable genre of
