Melville International Crime has just released Dead Man Upright, thus restoring all five of Derek Raymond's "Factory Novels" to print for the first time in nearly a decade. Melville calls the series books "among the grimmest and yet most heartfelt works of noir ever composed. Brooding and metaphysical in their purpose, Raymond's novels are both innovative works of style and searing indictments of the inherent violence of bureaucracy." For a clip of the author reading from his novel He Died with His Eyes Open, click here.
This September, Hard Case Crime will release James M. Cain's final unpublished crime novel, titled The Cocktail Waitress, and is teasing fans with the new cover for the book. You can also find an excerpt of the first chapter via that same link. Stephen King adds ""Here, long after anyone would have expected it, is the voice of James M. Cain, as fresh and as relevant as ever. The Cocktail Waitress will involve you, and then shock you with an ending you’ll never forget. This is a true rarity: a reader’s novel that’s also a literary event."
The Washington Post takes a hard look at flawed FBI forensics processes and how the Department of Justice's promises to protect the rights of defendants became more of an exercise in damage control, leaving prisoners locked away or in the dark for years longer than necessary.
Mystery Fanfare has the winners of this year's Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards in the crime fiction categories that include Contemporary Mystery, Historical Mystery, First Mystery, Amateur Sleuth and Suspense/Thriller. Congrats to all!
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