The Murder & Mystery Books 101 blog has finally named its Book of the Year: Damn Near Dead (Busted Flush Press), “an anthology of geezer noir,” edited by Duane Sweirczynski (who also penned one of January Magazine’s favorite books of 2006, The Blonde). The persistently unnamed author of MMB 101 dubs Damn Near Dead “one of the best anthologies I have read in a long time. It’s highly original and a brilliant idea to have all the main characters being senior citizens, especially in a genre [in which] the main characters are usually in the[ir] late 20s on up to the 40s. From gun-carrying grandpas to cane-wielding grandmas to a 90-year-old man getting that one last fling in with another woman to the Senior Citizens just looking to find ways to extend there lives through various forms of transplants, these stories will humor you, excite you, and you probably won’t look at your grandparents the same way again after reading this collection of stories.”
Rounding out MMB 101’s top-five crime-fiction selections for 2006: The Afghan, by Frederick Forsyth; The Dramatist, by Ken Bruen; Big City, Bad Blood, by Sean Chercover; and Billy Boyle, by James Benn.
Saturday, December 30, 2006
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