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Hardboiled, with heart: two tough-guy crime novels add a social conscience to the violence and mayhem

December 18, 2023December 18, 2023
by Steven Beattie

Sam Wiebe and S.A. Cosby are among the leading practitioners of a new strain of noir fiction.

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