Miami Noir. Akashic. (Akashic Noir). Nov. 2006. 355p. ed. by
Les Standiford. ISBN 1-933354-13-5. pap. $15.95. Akashic's
popular "Noir" series explores Miami vice with stories by
James W. Hall, John Dufresne,) Carolina Garcia-Aguilera,
Vicki Hendricks, and more.
Stark, Richard. Ask the Parrot. Mysterious. Nov. 2006. 304p.
ISBN 0-89296-068-X. $23.99. Picking up where Nobody Runs
Forever left off, master criminal Parker escapes from the
police and into the hands of an eccentric and angry recluse
bent on revenge. Stark (who is Grand Master Donald E.
Westlake) lives in upstate New York.
Swierczynski, Duane. The Blonde. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Nov.
2006. 256p. ISBN 0-312-34379-5. $23.95. In Speed-like style,
a flirty blonde poisons Jack Eisley's drink and tells him
that unless she can keep someone within ten feet of her at
all times, she'll die. If he wants the antidote, Jack must
take her back to his hotel room. Thus, violence ensues in
this second crime novel by Swierczynski (The Wheelman), who
is editor in chief of Philadelphia City Paper.
Lastly... The Hammer of God has been stilled.
Fred Zackel
This week's quote:
Degas held women at a distance, turning his ballet-dancers
and laundresses into anatomical studies. "Women can never
forgive me," he boasted. "I show them without their coquetry
in the state of animals cleaning themselves." Unlike the
other impressionists he also hated flowers and the
countryside.
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