Blogs in February 2015

Sin Walks into the Desert 1st February 2015

Sin gets a late night call from la Calavera. She’s an ex-federal agent living on half a lung in a retirement home near the border. And she says el Viejo is missing. This is el Viejo she’s talking about....

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Fear The Darkness 1st February 2015

Ex-FBI Agent Brigid Quinn thinks she has a second chance at life. After too many years spent in the company of evil, she’s quit the Feds and is working out what normal is meant to feel like. She’s swapped...

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The Biology of Luck 26th January 2015

Odd-job queen Starshine Hart is about to go on somebody else’s perfect date. At 29, the usually carefree Starshine has realized that it is easier to start sleeping with a man than to stop. Her lovers include one of...

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Cannery Row 25th January 2015

John Steinbeck’s paean to the Monterey County of his youth, Cannery Row contains an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw in Penguin Modern Classics. In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits – gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists...

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The Other Side of the Bay 22nd January 2015

Small towns have a way of burying things, and small-town people have a way of keeping things that way. With reminiscence and narration, a local sheriff must comb through his own humid world to unravel the truth behind the...

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