Jan 26, 2016 | Books, Gus Murphy, Reviews, Where It Hurts
There’s the thrill that comes in discovering a terrific new mystery writer, and then there’s the thrill that comes in discovering a terrific new — and different — mystery novel written by an already acknowledged master. Click here to read the review...
Jan 25, 2016 | Books, Gus Murphy, Interviews, News, Where It Hurts
Reed Farrel Coleman belongs in a different decade. He should have been writing crime novels in the 1930s and ’40s and rubbing elbows with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. The three-time Shamus Award winner for best detective novel of the year is every bit their...
Jan 23, 2016 | Books, Gus Murphy, Interviews, News, Where It Hurts
Reed talks with George Lichman of Crimespree Magazine Click here to read the interview
Jan 22, 2016 | Books, Gus Murphy, Interviews, News, Where It Hurts
…the plot, with its rogues’ gallery of vicious criminals and wayward cops, is not the primary reason to pick up Where It Hurts… The main attractions are Coleman’s poetic pulp fiction — he’s one of the giants of his genre, every bit the wordsmith as...
Jan 8, 2016 | Books, Gus Murphy, Reviews, Where It Hurts
Where It Hurts is a totally engrossing novel and portends a great new series that I’d certainly follow. Coleman does an excellent job with the character of Gus. He has captured the nature of a man who is in mourning and unable to move on with his life after the...
Jan 6, 2016 | Books, Gus Murphy, Reviews, Where It Hurts
WHERE IT HURTS is the January Pick of the Month at MysteryPeople! Gus lives and travels in a world of decay…Coleman uses his lyrical prose style to eloquently express the working class bars and dreary houses. Click here to read the review...