Some days you don’t need any throat clearing or preamble. You just get right down to business.

So let’s get to it.

Here are 3 crime fiction links, 2 quotes, and 1 question for this week:

3 LINKS

• PW picks 10 essential noir novels. The list starts with recognizable classics but keep going, it gets more interesting in the bottom half.
  
  
• The WaPo picks five, maybe slightly lesser known or overlooked, mysteries and thrillers coming this spring.
  
  
• The NYTs has a profile of Jonathan Ames whose peripatetic career has looped around to an actual crime novel featuring “a neurotic Reacher with the soul of a poet.”

2 QUOTES

Two from classic noir movies:

• “That’s life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.”
• “After all, crime is only…a left-handed form of human endeavor.”

1 QUESTION

• Do you have a favorite classic, black and white noir film?

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Until next Thursday, happy reading,

Mike

Author the Max Strong thriller series