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Five Wakes and a Wedding by Karen Ross @ComedyKaren @rararesources #bookreview #romanticcomedy #noir

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Undertaker Nina Sherwood is full of good advice. For example, never wear lip gloss when you’re scattering ashes. Nina is your average 30-year-old with a steady job, a nice home – and dead bodies in her basement. As an undertaker, she often prefers the company of the dead to the living – they’re obliging, good … Continue reading Five Wakes and a Wedding by Karen Ross @ComedyKaren @rararesources #bookreview #romanticcomedy #noir

#SegueSaturday #BookReview: Humpty Dumpty was Pushed by #MarcBlatte #HipHopNoir

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I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers on #SegueSaturday.  I first posted this review in February 2009.  “Humpty Dumpty was Pushed” was one of my first books posted on my blog and it is a fantastic … Continue reading #SegueSaturday #BookReview: Humpty Dumpty was Pushed by #MarcBlatte #HipHopNoir

#SegueSaturday #BookReview: He Died with His Eyes Open (Factory Book 1) by Derek Raymond @melvillehouse #crime noir

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I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers.  I first posted this review in February 2012.  "He Died with His Eyes Open" is a series and is one of the first noir crime books I read, and … Continue reading #SegueSaturday #BookReview: He Died with His Eyes Open (Factory Book 1) by Derek Raymond @melvillehouse #crime noir

Book review: The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (9780679723257)

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Yes, I read the classics, too.  A tragic love story where a drifter falls in love with a married woman, they plot to kill her husband, their lust gets in the way of common sense, and it ends in tragedy. A very lurid, short story of 1930's noir that holds the reader to the end.