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Litchfield Reviews Massive, Cleansing Fire by Dave Housley

News, Reviews / By Nicholas Litchfield / January 9, 2017

Colorado Review book review by Nicholas Litchfield: Despite its leanness, Dave Housley’s latest story collection, Massive, Cleansing Fire, is full of gloriously witty moments and uniquely fascinating characters and situations. Made up of individual stories, each one ending in a fire or focused on accounts of those caught up in a wildfire apocalyptic event, this is a creative, provocative, and refreshingly different sort of book.

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Book review: Death and the Naked Lady and The Lady and the Cheetah_John Flagg

Litchfield Reviews Death and the Naked Lady and The Lady and the Cheetah by John Flagg in the Lancashire Post

News, Reviews / By Nicholas Litchfield / January 4, 2017

Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: John Flagg, pseudonym of American crime writer John Gearon who died in 1970, delivers a barrage of murder and mayhem in two fabulous 1951 mysteries… with the added bonus of a suspense-packed short story.

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Book review: The Knife Slipped by Erle Stanley Gardner

Litchfield Reviews Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Knife Slipped for the Lancashire Evening Post

News, Reviews / By Nicholas Litchfield / December 9, 2016

Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: After a forty-six year lull, the frosted office door of ‘B. Cool, Investigations’ swings open once more as the lovable private eye team of ‘hard as nails’ boss Bertha Cool and her ‘little runt’ operative, Donald Lam, set to work on a tough new case in The Knife Slipped.

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Book review: Sinner Man by Lawrence Block

Litchfield Reviews Lawrence Block’s Sinner Man for the Lancashire Post

News, Reviews / By Nicholas Litchfield / December 1, 2016

Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: First published in 1968 and thought lost for many years, acclaimed US mystery writer Lawrence Block’s riveting, unflinching first crime novel is at long last reprinted.

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Litchfield Reviews Children of the Country by Abigail R. Shaffer for the Colorado Review

News, Reviews / By Nicholas Litchfield / November 2, 2016

Colorado Review book review by Nicholas Litchfield: True to its billing as an “unflinching debut,” Abigail R. Shaffer’s stylish, provocative Children of the Country is as hard-hitting as many of its cold-blooded, barbarically uncouth male characters who dominate its vast, untamed wooded landscape.

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Book review: Swampjack Virus by Nicholas Litchfield

Review of Swampjack Virus in the Lancashire Evening Post

News, Reviews / By Nicholas Litchfield / October 22, 2013

British-born Nicholas Litchfield, a librarian, journalist and researcher who has settled down in Western New York, pays homage to both his old homeland and the classic thriller-adventure spy novels of the 1950s and ’60s in this exciting and wryly funny adventure novel.

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