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Scott Adlerberg

Scott Adlerberg is the author of Jack Waters, a historical revenge tale, from Broken River Books. His other books include the noir/fantasy novella Jungle Horses and the psychological thriller Graveyard Love. He co-hosts the Word for Word Reel Talks film commentary series each summer in Manhattan and blogs about books, movies, and writing at the crime fiction site Do Some Damage. He lives in New York City.

Jungle Horses: Exclusive Excerpt

By Scott Adlerberg

August 15, 2014

Jungle Horses by Scott Adlerberg focuses on a London man, who after falling into debt with the wrong people, is forced on a trip to a Caribbean island to study a mysterious breed of horses (available August 19, 2014).   Arthur lives a quiet life in London, wandering from the bar to the racetrack and…

Gangster Cinema, British Style: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989)

By Scott Adlerberg

June 27, 2014

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover is not the first film you're likely to come up with when thinking about British gangster movies. Filmmaker Peter Greenaway, who began his artistic endeavors as a painter, has made a name for himself as a creator of provocative and sometimes experimental works of greater or…

Fresh Meat: The Poor Boy’s Game by Dennis Tafoya

By Scott Adlerberg

April 23, 2014

The Poor Boy's Game by Dennis Tafoya is a standalone thriller about Frannie, a U.S. Marshal whose violent childhood memories come rushing back when her father escapes from prison (available April 29, 2014). If you've read Dennis Tafoya, you know that he's a writer who embeds family drama, with its complex emotional turmoil, inside hardboiled…

Fresh Meat: Hustle by Tom Pitts

By Scott Adlerberg

March 31, 2014

Hustle by Tom Pitts is a gritty, harsh story of two male prostitutes from San Francisco who attempt to blackmail a wealthy lawyer in order to get off the streets and out of the business (available April 1, 2014).   Despite all the good authors working in the field today, most noir is not exactly…

Can We Call it Noir?: The Family of Pascual Duarte

By Scott Adlerberg

March 13, 2014

I would love to do an experiment and have a person begin The Family of Pascual Duarte knowing just the title. There would be no cover photo, and the author's name would be blacked out. The reader would have none of the usual markers on which to base an expectation of what kind of book…

Gangster Cinema, British Style: The Squeeze (1977), Starring Stacey Keach, Carol White, and David Hemmings

By Scott Adlerberg

February 23, 2014

Between 1971, the year Get Carter was released, and 1980, when The Long Good Friday came out, the British made no great gangster films. If truth be told, no British crime films of any kind from this period can be called masterpieces. But during that decade, there were a few imperfect gems produced – films…

Where Monsters Dwell, a crime debut by Norwegian author Jorgen Brekke

Fresh Meat: Where Monsters Dwell by Jorgen Brekke

By Scott Adlerberg

February 9, 2014

Where Monsters Dwell by Jørgen Brekke is the debut in translation of a whodunit-slash-literary thriller featuring Virginia cop Felicia Stone and Inspector Odd Sinsaker of Norway as they face distant murders linked to old journal of a 16th-century serial killer (available February 11, 2014). When I received the offer, I jumped at the chance to…

Gangster Cinema, British Style: Face (1997)

By Scott Adlerberg

December 20, 2013

If The Long Good Friday (1980) is the British crime film that captures the entrepreneurial spirit percolating in Britain just before Margaret Thatcher's ascension to Prime Minister in 1979, a harbinger of the aggressive free market days to come, then director Antonia Bird's Face serves as the bookend to the Thatcherite era. Shot in 1996…

The Hit (1984) directedd by Stephen Frears, starring Terence Stamp, John Hurt, and Tim Roth

Gangster Cinema, British Style: The Hit (1984), Starring Terence Stamp, John Hurt, and Tim Roth

By Scott Adlerberg

November 1, 2013

To grass, in British underworld parlance, means to inform on others to the police. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it derives from the word “grasshopper,” Cockney rhyming slang for copper.  The term has been around in Britain awhile, since the 1930's. In the 1970's, British journalists invented a new word, “supergrass,” to label an…

Let the Old Dreams Die by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Fresh Meat: Let the Old Dreams Die by John Ajvide Lindqvist

By Scott Adlerberg

September 30, 2013

Let the Old Dreams Die by John Ajvide Lindqvist is a horrifying and chilling short fiction anthology, translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg (available October 1, 2013). Before I started this collection, John Ajvide Lindqvist was a writer I knew only through acquaintance with the 2008 vampire film Let the Right One In.  The…

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