Edward Gorman, Author, Martin Harry Greenberg, Author, Ed Gorman, Author . Tor $29.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1146-7
Gorman and Greenberg's hefty and satisfyingly diverse anthology gathers 32 crime stories first published in 2003, along with six succinct introductory surveys of the mystery scene for that year. The opener, Kathyrn Rusch's low-key yet...
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Edward Gorman, Author, Ed Gorman, Author . Carroll & Graf $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1114-7
Shamus-winner Gorman's niftily titled new novel opens on a warm summer night in 1961 in Black River Falls, Iowa. Soon after a girl turns up dead at a class reunion party, her drag-racing boyfriend slams into a clay wall at 90 miles an hour. An...
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Edward Gorman, Author, Ed Gorman, Author . Carroll & Graf $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1296-0
The sixth Sam McCain novel from Shamus-winner Gorman (Save the Last Dance for Me
, etc.) trades on Cold War fears and the repercussions from the political and social issues of a bygone era. It's late October 1962, the height of the Cuban Missile
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Edward Gorman, Author, Ed Gorman, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-24271-8
Veteran crime author and editor Gorman gives psychological profiler and former FBI man Robert Payne (Harlot's Moon, Hawk Moon, etc.) a fourth chance to shine, but he manages only a pale glow in this loosely constructed tale. Brenner, Iowa, seems an...
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Ed Gorman, Author . Pegasus $25 (225p) ISBN 978-1-60598-070-6
Smalltown small-mindedness drives Gorman's entertaining eighth mystery to feature lawyer Sam McCain (after 2007's Fools Rush In
). As the Vietnam war escalates during the summer of 1965, Lou Bennett, the socially prominent father of a...
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Ed Gorman, Author Cemetery Dance Publications $40 (352p) ISBN 978-1-881475-68-2
Not all short story ideas can be stretched comfortably to fit the frame of a novel, as this tenuous expansion of Gorman's short suspense powerhouse ""Out There in the Darkness"" proves. The basic plot of the tale (first published as a chapbook in...
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Ed Gorman. Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $25 (208p) ISBN 978-1-60598-260-1
Social turmoil overshadows the sleuthing in Gorman’s excellent ninth Sam McCain mystery (after 2009’s A Ticket to Ride). In 1968, a hippie commune near Black River Falls, Iowa, both horrifies and entices the townsfolk with its uninhibited lifestyle.
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Ed Gorman. Severn, $28.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8025-3
Shamus Award–winner Gorman’s absorbing third mystery featuring Dev Conrad (after 2010’s Stranglehold) finds the Illinois political consultant stepping into a congressional match between liberal incumbent Jeff Ward and Ward’s blustery right-wing...
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Edward Gorman, Author, Ed Gorman, Author . Carroll & Graf $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0968-7
Shamus-winner Gorman's fourth nostalgia-ridden Sam McCain novel (after The Day the Music Died), set in Black River Falls, Iowa (pop. 27,300), during the summer of 1960, has to rank as one of the more good-natured mysteries in memory. His wouldn&#
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Ed Gorman. Severn, $28.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8300-1
A cynical view of the electoral process enlivens Gorman’s entertaining fourth mystery featuring political consultant Dev Conrad (after 2012’s Blindside). At a major fund-raiser in Chicago, incumbent Sen. Robert Logan fails to heed Conrad’s warning...
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Ed Gorman. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-60598-625-8
Gorman’s formulaic 10th Sam McCain mystery (after 2011’s Bad Moon Rising) focuses on the domestic conflict over the Vietnam War. Steve Donovan, an Iowa congressional candidate, savagely beats his fellow Vietnam veteran, Will Cullen, after Will...
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Ed Gorman. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8466-4
In Gorman’s intriguing fifth Dev Conrad mystery (after 2013’s Flashpoint), three shots are fired at congresswoman Jessica Bradshaw, who’s running for reelection, after she leaves a TV debate in Danton, Ill., where she faced off against her opponent,
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