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WWII

Trial by Fire by P. T. Deutermann: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

July 13, 2021

PROLOGUE KYUSHU, JAPAN MARCH 1945 It was pleasantly cold at a makeshift airstrip ten miles out of the port city of Kagoshima on the island of Kyushu, Japan. There was a high overcast and the nearby mountains had a dusting of Spring snow on their flanks. Six Yokosuka D4Y carrier dive bombers were lined up…

Germania: A Novel of Nazi Berlin by Harald Gilbers: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

October 1, 2020

Prologue  EARLY SUMMER, 1939 The light was positioned to simulate ten in the morning. The urban canyons of the capital of the German Empire shimmered blindingly white. But nothing moved, everything seemed suspended, frozen solid in an eternal winter. It would be a while until the daily chaos of Berlin reached those corners. At this…

The Hooligans by P. T. Deutermann: New Excerpt

By P. T. Deutermann

July 15, 2020

Guadalcanal Island, The Solomons August 1942 Rain. Pounding, tropical rain. Not comforting; more like scary. Sounding like a waterfall on my steel shipping-box home. My brain telling me: It’s just rain. Go back to sleep. But it wasn’t just rain: someone or thing was also pounding on the side of the box. Go away! I…

James Ellroy This Storm

Book Review: This Storm by James Ellroy

By Weston Ochse

June 3, 2019

This Storm by James Ellroy is a massive novel of World War II Los Angeles—when torrential rainstorms hit the city, a body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops rate it a routine dead-man job. They’re grievously wrong. I’ve been reading the Demon Dog of American Literature since I stumbled across The Black Dahlia in…

Book Review: The Devil Aspect by Craig Russell

By Larry Clow

March 6, 2019

Craig Russell’s new historical thriller The Devil Aspect centers around an asylum for the criminally insane in Prague, 1935. As a new serial killer emerges in the city, a young psychiatrist works with the asylum’s serial killer-patients to research whether they exhibit an archetype of evil called “The Devil Aspect.”  Dread hangs heavy over the Hrad Orlů…

Hushed in Death by Stephen Kelly

Review: Hushed in Death by Stephen Kelly

By Janet Webb

November 12, 2018

Hushed in Death by Stephen Kelly is the third book in the Inspector Lamb series set in the spring of 1942 at a hospital for veterans in rural England that leaves Lamb with a village full of suspects. Hushed in Death opens very somberly. The Elton House’s gardener Joseph Lee is discovered floating in the pond,…

The Iceman: New Excerpt

By P. T. Deutermann

The Iceman by P. T. Deutermann is an action-packed World War II military thriller featuring a daring United States Navy submarine commander during the Pacific war in 1942-43.  In 1942, off the port city of St. Nazaire in occupied France, a United States Navy S-class submarine assigned to the Royal Navy lurks just outside the borders…

DISCOUNT: The One Man by Andrew Gross

By Crime HQ

August 7, 2018

Bursting with compelling characters and tense storylines, The One Man by New York Times-bestseller Andrew Gross is a deeply affecting, unputdownable series of twists and turns through a landscape at times horrifyingly familiar but still completely new and compelling. Get a digital copy of The One Man for only $2.99 through the month of August! Poland. 1944. Alfred…

Clint Eastwood Goes to War

By David Cranmer

May 18, 2018

Clint Eastwood’s movie persona has long projected strength, brute force, and outsider roles in what would otherwise be traditional authority figures: police officers, cowboys, and what we are looking at here, soldiers in war films. Intriguingly, his first foray into boots and bayonets began high in the sky with the campy Tarantula (1954), where he…

Book-Inspired Cocktails: “The Allied Sour”

By Adam Wagner

August 25, 2017

What do you do when you've foiled a Nazi plan and changed the outcome of the war?  Celebrate with this week's Pick Your Poison—where we create a cocktail inspired by a recently published mystery, thriller, or crime novel—“The Allied Sour” cocktail, inspired by Andrew Gross's WWII thriller The Saboteur!

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