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S. Craig Zahler

Three Novels from the Greatest Mystery Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

By S. Craig Zahler

March 30, 2021

The Riddle of the Traveling Skull (1934) is an incredible book and my sixth favorite novel of all time. At the beginning of this story, the protagonist comes upon an oddly adorned human skull in a travel bag, and what follows is the wildly twisting investigation of the aforementioned cranial artifact. After reading eighty pages…

Fresh Meat: Mean Business on North Ganson Street

By Katherine Tomlinson

September 29, 2014

Mean Business on North Ganson Street is the story of a black police detective exiled from the sunny southwest to a decaying, crime-ridden town in the rust belt, which also has a cop killer on the loose (available September 30, 2014). From the cinematic first sentence of the first paragraph of the first page of…

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