Friday's Forgotten Books: Four Corners of Night by Craig Holden

My Friday's Forgotten Books review of Craig Holden's Four Corners of Night is up at spinetingler.

Check that shit out right HERE.

Anybody have any suggestions for what I should read next of Holden's?

Is all his shit, you know, fucking brilliant?

Justified - "The Moonshine War"

My review of episode one of season two of Justified, "The Moonshine War, is up at spinetingler.

Check that shit out HERE.

Starting strong right out the fucking gate - already we've been introduced to the great character actors Margo Martindale and Jeremy Davies as Mags and Dickie Bennett.

Doesn't mean anything to you? IMDB that shit post-fucking-haste, you philistine!

Outsourced by Dave Zeltserman

My review of Dave Zeltserman's Outsourced is up at spinetingler.

Give it a look right HERE.

It seems Zeltserman has replaced Charlie Huston as "guy who puts out great shit and multiple times a year at that" in the crime fiction community these days.

Just saying, it's been over a year since we had a Huston novel...

Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith

My review of Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith is up at spinetingler.

Check it out HERE.

Definitely gotta go back and read Smith's debut Mixed Blood now.

Guy serves it up bloody, the only way I like it.

Bleed a River Deep by Brian McGilloway

My review of Brian McGilloway's Bleed a River Deep is up at spinetingler.

Check that shit out HERE.

I should look into how many reviews on this blog have been of books by either Irish or Irish-American authors since I started it up.

But then again, that sounds like work...

The Wilding by Benjamin Percy

My review of The Wilding by Benjamin Percy is up at spinetingler.

Give it a look-see right HERE.

I'm sorry to say that there's some spoiler-y shit (properly alerted, of course) in this review. Had to be that guy, I'm afraid.

Collusion by Stuart Neville

My review of Stuart Neville's Collusion is up at spinetingler.

Check that shit out HERE.

Also, if you haven't already, read his first novel The Ghosts of Belfast fucking immediately. Dude has this book-writing gig down fucking cold.

The Best Mystery/Crime Fiction of 2010

Brian Lindenmuth and I put together top tens of the best books of 2010 over at spinetingler.

Compare and contrast that shit here.

If you walk away from this article with nothing to add to your amazon wishlist, either you're the hippest cat in book town or your tastes run more towards the novels of the little lady to the right...

Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane

My review of Dennis Lehane's Moonlight Mile is up at spinetingler.

Check it out right HERE.

And no, it's not a Mick Jagger biography nor the long-awaited movie tie-in to the Jake Gyllenhaal movie from several years ago. It's the new Kenzie and Gennaro mystery!

Best of Whatever

I did a "Best of Whatever" post over at Day Labor, the official blog of Crimefactory Magazine, on some of my favorite foreign crime films of 2010.

Check that shit out HERE.

While you're over there you should definitely take a look at some of the other "Best of Whatevers," seeing how they're from some pretty bee-fucking-knees-ish motherfuckers.

Pike by Benjamin Whitmer

My review of Pike by Benjamin Whitmer is up at spinetingler.

Check that shit out right HERE.

While you're over there, take a look around at the newly redesigned spinetingler site.

Pretty sexy shit, huh?

Late Rain by Lynn Kostoff

My review of Lynn Kostoff's Late Rain is up at spinetingler.

Read that shit HERE.

This year has apparently been the year of Kostoff and Winslow for the Nerd, looking back at how many reviews of their shit I did up in '10.

Don't worry, one of these years I'll have that Tolstoy marathon I keep talking about...