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My work as a correspondent for Crime Fiction Lover is humming along nicely.  I was recently offered a chance to submit a freelance book review for the website of Grift Magazine, an excellent new hardboiled journal.  Consequently, my review of Joseph Koenig’s False Negative is now up on the Grift site.  I won’t give away much, but this is one of the best books I’ve read all year.  If you like hardboiled characters and vintage pulp, this Hard Case Crime offering is for you. In other news, I seem to be unable to review Hard Case Crime without using the term “meta.”  It appears in the False Negative review, and I also used it in my review of Stephen King’s The Colorado Kid.  Will he be able to review a third Hard Case Crime book without using the word meta?  I’m sure this will not be the last Hard Case Crime book I review (sure hope not!), so stay tuned, ladies and gentlemen. And by the way…  The review has a pseudonymous byline, so please don’t harass any innocent Ed Quinlans you meet and ask them what they want “dating wise.”  I’m just sayin’… But don’t just take my word for it. Go read the review, then take my word for it.

My work as a correspondent for Crime Fiction Lover is humming along nicely.  I was recently offered a chance to submit a freelance book review for the website of Grift Magazine, an excellent new hardboiled journal.  Consequently, my review of Joseph Koenig’s False Negative is now up on the Grift site.  I won’t give away much, but this is one of the best books I’ve read all year.  If you like hardboiled characters and vintage pulp, this Hard Case Crime offering is for you.

In other news, I seem to be unable to review Hard Case Crime without using the term “meta.”  It appears in the False Negative review, and I also used it in my review of Stephen King’s The Colorado Kid.  Will he be able to review a third Hard Case Crime book without using the word meta?  I’m sure this will not be the last Hard Case Crime book I review (sure hope not!), so stay tuned, ladies and gentlemen.

And by the way…  The review has a pseudonymous byline, so please don’t harass any innocent Ed Quinlans you meet and ask them what they want “dating wise.”  I’m just sayin’…

But don’t just take my word for it. Go read the review, then take my word for it.

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Stephen King made headlines a month ago when Hard Case Crime announced that they would be publishing his novel Joyland in June 2013. Joyland is an eagerly anticipated release, but it is not King’s first novel for Hard Case Crime. In 2005, the hardboiled imprint published King’s The Colorado Kid, a short mystery that is by turns charming and puzzling… In anticipation of Stephen King’s Joyland, I revisit his 2005 Hard Case Crime release, The Colorado Kid.  I don’t expect Joyland will be much like The Colorado Kid, but the latter is an intriguing little story that deserves to be evaluated on its own (idiosyncratic) merits. But don’t just take my word for it. Go read the review, then take my word for it.

Stephen King made headlines a month ago when Hard Case Crime announced that they would be publishing his novel Joyland in June 2013. Joyland is an eagerly anticipated release, but it is not King’s first novel for Hard Case Crime. In 2005, the hardboiled imprint published King’s The Colorado Kid, a short mystery that is by turns charming and puzzling…

In anticipation of Stephen King’s Joyland, I revisit his 2005 Hard Case Crime release, The Colorado Kid.  I don’t expect Joyland will be much like The Colorado Kid, but the latter is an intriguing little story that deserves to be evaluated on its own (idiosyncratic) merits.

But don’t just take my word for it. Go read the review, then take my word for it.

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